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Activism Going Digital, Activism Going Global
We can see how technologies impact almost every aspect of our lives – from the way we find our spouse to the way we work. What about activism going digital? Being mostly enthusiastic about new technologies and the broken boundaries they brought us, I never questioned their importance and influence […]
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Global21 Network: The Fall of the Great Firewall
Alice Xu investigates the implications of the politically motivated standardisation of language and attempts at censorship of the internet in China: The day that President Barack Obama was inaugurated marked a turning point in the movement towards change. Even my grandfather, who closely followed Obama’s progress in the elections from […]
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Access costs and local content – emerging issues
Traveling around Ghana has made Charles Amega-Selorm realize that Internet access is no longer an issue – but access costs and local content certainly are! If you had asked me a few months back what my position on the Internet in Ghana was, I would have said that we needed […]
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The Rise of Citizen Media via Mobile Phone in Cambodia
Mobile technology gives Cambodians a voice, which signals the rise of more citizen media and social activism, reports Chak Sopheap. Mobile phones have gained popularity since 2000 due to affordability and indispensability. For those at the bottom of the economic pyramid, this has been a boon. Here in Cambodia, the […]
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Internet Access. A Human Right
Over five billion people do not have internet access, ahumanright.org plans to change that. Kosta Grammatis explains why the internet is important in the first place. As of 2009, 83% of the world is literate, and another 80% has access to electricity, these two factors are all that is required […]