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· October, 2005

Stories about Citizen Media from October, 2005

Effect Measure on Facing the Global Bird Flu Threat

Masked Mao With recent reports of avian flu in Western Europe, the disease is clearly no longer East Asia's problem. It's a dilemma for the world. Last week I emailed Revere, the pseudonymous leader of Effect Measure, a public health group blog. Since its inception in late 2004, Effect Measure has been covering the global response to avian flu. My goal was to discuss the pandemic fears and what the world -- and ordinary people -- can do to prepare for it. Revere, an environmental epidemiologist in a senior faculty position at a major research university, has 40 years of experience in medicine and public health. He is also one of the individuals behind the Flu Wiki, an Internet-based experiment in community mobilization and knowledge-pooling to face the feared epidemic. He paints an alarming picture. "If a pandemic is going to happen (and we don't know how to predict if it will or not with certainty), it will happen whatever we do," he writes. "There will be no "outside" for help to come from, so each community needs to prepare to cope on its own." In previous flu pandemics, hundreds of thousands of people went sick or died, leading to massive disruptions as workers failed to show up to work and instead surged into ill-equipped and ill-prepared hospitals ill-prepared. Revere sees two big tasks ahead: managing the consequences of a potential pandemic, and building (or rebuilding) the world's rotting public health infrastructure.

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
25 October 2005

Chile's Presidential Blog Forum

此篇文章有繁體中文的翻譯” While all of South America has been experiencing an exponential growth of weblogs, podcasts, and other online methods of civic participation, no country has done more to institutionalize the...

Written by David Sasaki
19 October 2005

South Asian blog roundup

Bangladesh: - Rifat of ‘Close your eyes and try to see’ discusses premarital sex in the context of Bangladesh. - Shappir of ‘Bring your own Shisha’ recollects the story of...

Written by Rezwan
16 October 2005

Flooding Throughout Central America

A week's worth of rain caused by hurricane Stan has caused massive flooding in Guatemala and throughout Central America. Death toll estimates are already at a conservative 1,400 in Guatemala...

Written by David Sasaki
9 October 2005

What's going on in the African blogosphere

Some snippets from the African blogosphere. - Gatwiri takes issue with the July/August edition of Foreign Policy magazine which classifies Kenya as a failed state. He points out that, “The...

Written by Ory Okolloh
9 October 2005

Pakistan: Blog Response

The initial news of this massive earth quake that hit the sub-continent took us all by surprise (understandably) but the resulting devastation and 18,000 + fatalities (so far) has shocked...

Written by Omer Alvie
9 October 2005

South Asian blog roundup

Bangladesh: - Subhan shares some typical & unique Bangladeshi styles from personal observations in a post called “You know you are Bangladeshi when*@#!!” - Arafat of ‘Anthology’ analyses a news...

Written by Rezwan
8 October 2005

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