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Planet Text: How SMS Messaging is Changing the World
SMS messaging, better known as texting, is changing how many of us interact with each other on a daily basis. However, beyond just simple communication, it is astounding to see how texting is reshaping the lives of so many.
Notes from the Sida conference on Internet Activism
The recent conference on internet activism, put on by the Swedish International Development Agency, was particularly enlightening.
Google buys Motorola - It begins!
Google – the people who brought you the Pet Rock – have just purchased Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. In CASH.
Google now has the ability to rival its chief competitor, Apple, which produces both the iphone and its operating system.
France to disconnect citizens for file-sharing
France has started to disconnect its first users under its new three strikes system.
That is, if you are caught file-sharing, you are sent an angry letter telling you to stop. If you persist, you get an angrier letter. Three strikes, and you lose your internet connection for six months.
The Dutch have done it again
From the people who brought you legal marijuana, freaky sex clubs and pickled herring comes the craziest thing yet.
Of course, I’m talking about the net neutrality law that just passed through Dutch parliament.
APC's Joy Liddicoat wins the HRC talent competition
APC’s own Joy Liddicoat, project leader of the Connect your rights: Internet rights are human rights campaign, moved the judges in Geneva earlier today with her spoken word performance.
Joy clinched the top spot in the competition with a stunning rendition of the classic poem by Robert Frost: “APC’s Oral Statement to the Human Ri
Be part of the online media revolution!
The International Press Institute is now taking applications for the IPI Press Contest.
The goal of the contest is to encourage the expansion of online free media in Africa, the Middle East and Europe by working with mobile, digital and open-source technology.
ICT4D Masters Bursary from University of Manchester
The University of Manchester’s one-year MSc ICTs for Development degree
aims to create “ICT4D champions” who combine technical competencies in
information systems and project management with an understanding of
development context and practice:
http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/courses/06237/?code=...
The 2011 Development Leaders Bursary – worth £6,150 – is a
7 Billion Voices - a new campaign for freedom of expression online
7 Billion Voices is a new online campaign whose goal is “to give everyone a voice without censorship, interference or fear of what happens after expression.” Its members advocate that the European Union take a leading role with comprehensive and effective strategies for protecting freedom of expression online, and that its leaders inco
Digital Age: Parents and Children Warned about Risks Related to Internet
The OneWorld Platform for Southeast Europe (owpsee) promotes the values of internet as an extremely useful tool and resource for acquisition of new knowledge, but at the same time warns about the possible dangers of abuse of children on internet.
