Stories about Digital Activism from September, 2006
South Korea: information about north Korea
Joshua in Korea Liberator tells people how to break the blockade and access to alternative information to North Korea.
Cambodia: Personal Information Technology aka Weblog Workshop
More and more Cambodians are getting introduced to blogging through organized workshops at universities in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia. The Cambodian blogopshere is probably as not big as any others in the region as the number of Internet users is one of the lowest in Southeast Asia....
Iran: A blind electronic music composer
Ankabout presents us Aboozar, his blind electronic music composer from Iran. You can download some samples of his music or but them .
Indonesian Blogger Confronts US Media View on Indonesian Muslims
Here is a stark example on how people from different cultures see the same thing differently. And how bias and pre-occupied notion on certain issue and on certain people or community can lead you to see thing only from the negative side of the picture. Rasyad A. Parinduri at Sarapan...
China: Lists
Blogger's block, we all get it sometimes. Ruthless readers, our editors, don't have time for excuses. So what's a blogger to do? Lists! Here are few from the last few days of the Chinese blogsphere, ordered with a certain amount of thematic continuity:
Election and Censorship Dialectics in the Brazilian Blogosphere
The first Brazilian electoral process witnessed by an active blogosphere is starting to show its unique role. As campaigns intensify throughout the country in the last month before election day, cases involving blog censorship have emerged. It seems that politicians are having a hard time understanding why they can't control...
Botswana: Blogging in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS
Blogswana addresses HIV/AIDS stigma, promoting the internet as a tool for peer education and understanding to reduce stigma and encourage testing, treatment and disclosure.
