Stories about Technology from September, 2006
Lessons from the Digital Citizen Indaba on Blogging
Mike Stopforth learnt something at the Digital Citizen Indaba on Blogging: “You see, I was pretty self-absorbed. When I thought of blogging on the African content, I had a very South African-centric, business and or marketing-related view and to be quite honest had never really allowed my narrow mind to...
Malawi: Software Freedom Day
Soyapi Mumba on Software Freedom Day in Malawi, “In Malawi, the event is being organised by LinuxChix (Malawi) and Malawi Open Source Society (MOSS) and will include presentations on various Free and Open Source Software topics to be followed by an Install Party.“
Brazilians Debate Media Regulation and Digital Convergence
On the trail of so much disruptive news arising in the Brazilian digital ecosystem — Youtube, empowered bloggers, Orkut's hegemony and digital TV transition to name few — a favorable renewed media regulatory framework has suddenly turned into the golden dream of the professionals and corporations involved. The big issue...
Technology out of Africa
After being sidetracked for a few weeks, White African gets to sit down and write about innovative web technology coming out of Africa, “Newzbubble is a fun news application that allows you to see which subjects have the most news about them.”
Russia: Buran
English Russia writes about Buran, the unlucky Soviet-built space shuttle: “It could be a very successful project of Russian Space Exploration era in general, if the Soviet union lasted a little bit longer or if the modern Russian could find a way to fund it.”
Africa: New publishing ventures
Two publishing ventures in South Africa and in Nigeria aim to publish writings by Africans for local markets, reports African Women's Blog.
South Africa: New Media Awards
The Digital Citizen Indaba blog, The Blog, writes about the SABC Highway Africa Awards Ceremony. The winners for 2006 Highway Africa Awards for Innovative Use of New Media are…
Blogcamp Unconference in Chennai: Remains of the Day
The last weekend saw BlogCamp being held in Chennai. Promoted as the largest unconference on blogging thus far in India, it saw quite a range of people attending the event. A cursory glance at the list of attendees here and topics discussed here. The blogsphere is buzzing with reactions on...
China: Government's video-censorship foiled
When a young teacher is found dead outside her apartment building in Ruian, the police report concludes suicide, but her family and students suspect a cover-up. Over a thousand people take to the streets in protest, and are met with police violence. Protestors film the clashes on their cellphones, and...
Peruvian Posts Between August and September
Este artículo también está disponible en español. In the time that has passed since my previous compilation of posts, the people of Perú Político have published three summaries of the weekly happenings, which have to do mostly with events from the government's political actors and the opposition. They are: weekly...
Malawi, Development, Technology
Soyapi Mumba writes about a new service introduced by the Electricity Supply Commission of Malawi, which enables customers to know how much they need to pay using SMS.
Martinique/Guad./Guyane: Skype Rates and Impact
InternetRapide.com is excited to offer (Fr) PC to mobile Skype Out rates from France to Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guyane and suspects that Skype products will hinder local providers from successfully developing attractive internet telephony products for those countries.
Africa, South Africa, Technology, Media
While the critique of the Digital Citizen Indaba continues to flow, Mental Acrobatics has a different take: The controversy is neither about the Indaba being “Internet Berlin Conference 2006″ or nor White blogging Africa…it is about the Princess of Africa!
Africa, Telecommunications, Development, Technology
Kenyan Pundit reports from the annual ICT conference in South Africa, Highway Africa, about the workshop on the status of EASSY Project.
Morocco: Blogs on the increase in Morocco
Samir reports that a growing number of Moroccan Internet surfers have become bloggers this year due to cheaper Internet access, the general availability of ADSL and the launch of a number of local blog platforms. Current developments in the already diverse Moroccan blogosphere include the creation of an Arabic-language blog...
China: Video save taskforce needed
When tens of thousands of Ruian, Zhejiang citizens came out to protest the official conclusion of an investigation into the death of high school teacher Dai Haijing, it didn't take long for the news—despite being banned from mainstream media—to flash through Chinese blogs and BBS’. When short videos were taken...
China: who are netizen?
In response to a blog post concerning the power of netizen (pageviews) in defence of Baidu, Keso criticizes that the meaning of “netizen” is now similar to “people”, both are flexible and empty concepts (zh).
Reunion: Actively Blogging
Alongside the Democratic Republic of Congo, Reunion a French Overseas Department located in the Indian Ocean to the East of Africa has one of the most active blogospheres in the francophone world. Its portal Reunion Permanente either explains the bustling activity or illustrates it. The portal even keeps track of...
Haiti: Youth gaming project
Ebogjonson discovers the Playing 4 Keeps youth media project, in which students at a US high school team up to produce a “socially conscious” online game. Poverty is the topic for this year's game, which the students have chosen to set in Haiti.
South Asia Blog Buzz
The latest from the South Asian blogs: Bangladesh: - Rajputro writes a satirical piece on how the load shedding (power cuts to manage shortage in electricity supply) in Bangladesh can be counterproductive. - Shafiur of imperfect|world|2006 is amused with the political dramas set out in Bangladesh as a form of...
TV still reigns in Brazil, but here comes YouTube
The magnitude of Internet numbers in Brazil has puzzled specialists in the last months. After overtaking Google's Orkut and exceeding their own world record in navigating time spent on the Internet, Brazilians are now preparing to dominate YouTube. The incredible jump from 9% to 20% of active users visiting this...
