Global Voices · Citizen media stories from November 2011

November, 2011

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Stories from November, 2011

18 November 2011

Crisis Camp Italy: Using Web 2.0 to Manage Emergencies

Written by Antonella Sinopoli · Translated by Ciara Nugent · Western Europe

Mapping, geolocalization, citizen journalism, data management: just some of the topics to be discussed in Bologna on 19 November at Crisis Camp. The first Italian meeting about collaborative tools for emergencies.

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17 November 2011

Palestine: Freedom Riders Challenge Israeli Segregation

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · Middle East & North Africa

On November 15 a group of Palestinian activists were arrested while travelling on a bus carrying Israeli settlers. The activists called themselves the “Freedom Riders”, after the American civil rights campaigners of 1961.

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Argentina: New Foreign Exchange Controls

Written by Laura Schneider · Translated by Vivienne Griffiths · Latin America

At the end of October 2011 the Argentine government launched a series of regulatory measures designed to control foreign exchange. The country's bloggers comment on and analyse the measures, which aim to slow the inflationary tendency of the US dollar against the peso.

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United States: Unexpected Eviction of Occupy Wall Street Protest

Written by Robert Valencia · Translated by Marianna Breytman · North America

On the morning of November 15, New Yorkers woke up to news that police forces had evicted Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park without prior notice. As usual, various opinions continue to circulate in the blogosphere and social networks.

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India: A Murder Convict's Parole Stirs Up Controversy

Written by Aparna Ray · South Asia

The Delhi High Court's decision to grant parole to Mr. Manu Sharma - currently serving life imprisonment for the murder of Jessica Lal - has led to public outrage in India. Netizens are engaged in heated discussions online on this issue.

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China: Suicide Civil Servants in Depression or ‘Being Depressed'?

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

It is well-known that ordinary people who petition against injustice and corruption have been diagnosed as having mental illnesses in China. Recently, a similar diagnosis, this time depression, has been given to civil servants and government officials who have committed suicide.

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Updates from November, 2011

25 November 2011

Kenya

John Karanja blogs about Kenyan innovator Daniel Njuguna who has managed to integrate his mobile phone with home made appliances and gadgets that perform a number of domestic functions: “This innovation is a precursor to what has been described as the internet of things where appliances and gadgets will soon be interconnected through the Internet.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Kenya

Mapping mobile money in Kenya: “CrowdPesa is a Web and Mobile application with a mapping system that allows businesses to locate themselves in a map and facilitate users to find the location of the nearest financial service on their mobile phone.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Chile

Inspired by the student movements in Colombia and Chile, students across the continent marched on November 24, 2011 to demand free, high-quality education. El Ciudadano [es] links to the Facebook events organized in each country; Kena Lorenzini posts pictures of the Chilean protests in her blog, and Mike shares pictures of the demonstrations held in Bogotá, Colombia.

• Silvia Viñas

China

Chinese Human Rights Defenders argued against the “quiet diplomacy” approach put forward by Chen Min in New York Times on November 16, 2011 by looking into the case of blind activist Chen Guangcheng in Shangdong.

• Oiwan Lam

24 November 2011

Portugal

Throughout the day of general strike in Portugal, November 24, Twitter user @Shyznogud has curated online media content for the page “a peek into the strike” on Scoop.it. Journalist Paulo Querido (@PauloQuerido) noted that “there are more tweets against the #grevegeral (general strike, hashtag in use) than in favour. Makes one think about the society we've become. Apparently we deserve punishment.”

• Sara Moreira

Iran

Rojin Mohammadi,a feamle blogger and a medical student at Manila Medical School of Philippines got arrested [fa] upon her return to Iran and was transferred to Evin prison.

• Fred Petrossian