Global Voices · Citizen media stories from July 2011

July, 2011

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Stories from July, 2011

22 July 2011

Russia: Envisioning the “Cloud Democracy” Utopia

Written by Alexey Sidorenko · Eastern & Central Europe

'Cloud Democracy' is the title of the new book written by Leonid Volkov and Fyodor Krasheninnikov, two political bloggers from the Urals region of Russia. The book displays the authors' vision on how a system of 'future' democratic governance can be built with the help of online tools.

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21 July 2011

Armenia: Uproar Over Head of Church's Remarks

Written by Liana Aghajanian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Angered by remarks made by the the country's spiritual leader about the upkeep of churches and monasteries, some Armenians are using social networking sites such as Facebook to call for his resignation.

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Guatemala's DipuKids: A New Generation of Candidates for Congress

Written by Renata Avila · Latin America

A new generation of Guatemalan politicians under 30, dubbed the 'Dipukids', are causing controversy. Well educated and well travelled, many from the country's upper class - can they truly represent the people who may be electing them?

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Is Russia's Political “Black Hole” About to Reach Tipping Point?

Written by Gregory Asmolov · Eastern & Central Europe

In December 2011 Russian voters will elect a new parliament, and than in March 2012 a new (or perhaps, not so new) president. Analysts predict that the upcoming elections threaten a confrontation between the old political parties and their new, network-based, alternatives.

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Portugal: “Junk” National Debt Rating Provokes Online Demonstrations

Written by Sara Moreira · Translated by Janet Gunter · Western Europe

The “junk” rating given to Portugal’s ability to pay its public debts by independent American financial analysis corporation Moody's, has provoked numerous demonstrations of exacerbated nationalism on the social networks. It has also brought to the blogosphere further analysis on the economic crisis and the country's bailout.

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China: Bring Your Books to Rural Villages

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

A prominent Chinese scholar is encouraging netizens to "bring their books to the villages". Now a number of centres have been set up in cities across the country to handle the book donations and collect funds to go towards building libraries in rural areas.

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Updates from July, 2011

29 July 2011

Bahamas

Womanish Words is shaken by her son's diagnosis of Dengue Fever, saying: “These are serious times. We all must take proper precautions. And we need to amp up the national response to the outbreak of Dengue Fever in Nassau. This thing is no joke.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Cuba

Pedazos de La Isla takes heart in the fact that “various English-language news sources have been brave enough to publish the truth about the Caribbean island”, saying: “In Cuba, there is much to report, whether it is through blogs, digital magazines, newspapers, television, radio, etc. On a daily basis, dissidents who demand their freedom are beaten, jailed, exiled, or even killed…”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Haiti

Repeating Islands acknowledges the passing of “Silva Joseph, a highly regarded Vodou flag maker…in the tradition of BelAir’s famous flag artists, such as Tibout, Joseph Fortine and Luc Daniel Cedor.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Dominica

NewsDominica.com reports on the latest damage caused by persistent heavy rains on the island.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Cuba

Uncommon Sense says that despite the arrival of “an underwater cable reached Cuba from Venezuela” designed to improve Internet access to the island, ” the regime has intensified its control of the Internet, restricting government employees' access to Facebook and on networks that provide ‘illegal' e-mail accounts.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Iran

Islamic Republic's Interior Minister Mostafa Najar called [fa] Facebook, satellites and chatting, instruments used by western countries' soft war against Iranian regime.

• Fred Petrossian

China

Thirty-five million Koreans' information stored in the South Korean portal site Nate and Cyworld, was hacked in cyber attack from China. One net user from Daum Agora website blamed [ko] Nate's default setting in checking emails- reading the emails without preview function- for involuntarily opening doors to mass hacker attacks.

• Lee Yoo Eun

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Interesting read. Thanks for sharing!
Great article that addressed the matter concisely and with appropriate supplemental material.