4 May 2010

Stories from 4 May 2010

Ecuador: Social Groups March in Celebration of Labor Day

  4 May 2010

Like many countries around the world, Ecuadorians commemorated International Worker's Day on May 1st. This day has historically been a day where workers in the country have pushed for better working conditions, ever since it was officially made a national holiday in 1915.

Uganda: Reports from the Call Uganda meetings

  4 May 2010

Sokari links to published reports on the Call Uganda prayer meetings: “The rhetoric was as expected and The Call founder, Lou Engles’ press release last week that he was not anti-homosexual were simply untrue. Behind the Mask reported on Engle’s who claimed the West were using “Ugandan NGO’s to promote...

Nigeria: Nigerian online classifieds

  4 May 2010

StartUps Nigeria discusses online classifieds in Nigeria: “While we think that some of these sites are tapping into the shortcomings of the leading classifieds sites, Craigslist and Kijiji (perhaps some are copying Craigslist), we wonder how they hope to make money.”

Pakistan: Internet and the challenge of language

  4 May 2010

This post is part of our special coverage Languages and the Internet. Pakistan today would seem primed for rapid growth in internet use. The country has had explosive growth of FM radio, satellite and cable TV set in motion by regulatory changes that allow non-state ownership of mass media. Cell...

Armenia-Azerbaijan: New media and conflict transformation

The Oxfam blog reports on the recent Social Media for Social Change conference and Social Innovation Camp held last month in Tbilisi, Georgia, and particularly comments on the work of Global Voices Online's Caucasus editor and the blogger behind Flying Carpets and Broken Pipelines in using new and social media...

Trinidad & Tobago: CRB Online

  4 May 2010

“At long last the trail-blazing online version of the Caribbean Review of Books is on stream!”: Trinidad and Tobago's Pleasure calls this “a very, very pleasing development.”

Jamaica: Strike

  4 May 2010

Girl With A Purpose reports that Jamaica's teachers are on strike, protesting the government's “inability to pay them the $4 billion in retroactive salaries owed…”

India: Much Ado About Covering Up

  4 May 2010

“Women and their creative desires are collateral damage in a war to control visual pleasure. Its all about what is pleasing to the male eye,” comments Outlandish Musings from Mumbai, India.