14 November 2007

Stories from 14 November 2007

Serbia: Belgrade the “Party City”

  14 November 2007

Belgrade 2.0 corrects the Sunday Times on their view of Belgrade: “Milan is the fashion city, Amsterdam is the weed city, Paris is the love city, Berlin is the wall city, and New York is New York” – and Belgrade is the “party city.”

Serbia: Laptops for Politicians

  14 November 2007

Each deputy of Serbia's national assembly might be given a laptop – “in order to replace paper comsumption and increase effectiveness.” While many Serbian bloggers don't think it's a good idea, Viktor Marković of Belgrade 2.0 thinks it is. He also believes that the war in Yugaslavia could've been avoided...

Brazil: Gender equality is still a dream

  14 November 2007

Cynthia Semírami [pt] comments on the latest Global Gender Gap Report by the World Economic Forum covering a total of 128 countries, representing over 90% of the world’s population. Brazil is 74th position in the ranking: “It is interesting to note that women are the expressive force behind social movements,...

Serbia: Slavija

  14 November 2007

Dejan Čabrilo of Anegdote writes about Slavija, a Belgrade neighborhood he grew up in: “Seen the kids who offer to wait in line for visas at the German embassy in exchange for a small fee? That was us, and probably still is – the perks of living in the capital...

Environment: ‘Endangered Planet

  14 November 2007

Omar Basawad is encouraged by the news media's coverage of climate change, citing the programs from CNN, BBC and Al-Jazeera. In watching the CNN special ‘Planet in Peril’ Omar is pertubed and shocked in part because…”Most saddening of all, is that – the poorest part of the World: Africa, which...

Nigeria: The rise and fall of Festac Town

  14 November 2007

Adeola writes about the rise and fall of Festac town in Nigeria: “This year 2007 marks the 30th Anniversary of Festac Town as a residential area. Festac is still one of the largest residential estates south of Saharan Africa. When I started living in Festac Town in 1977 with the...

Jamaica: Our Caribbean

  14 November 2007

Geoffrey Philp features Our Caribbean: “an anthology of lesbian and gay writing from across the Antilles”.

Trinidad & Tobago: Sustainable Development

  14 November 2007

Trinbago Forever acknowledges that the outcome of the recently-held elections in Trinidad and Tobago means the country is still entrenched in the ruling party's vision of achieving developed nation status, but says: “A thriving economy…is untenable, if we are constantly ever fearful of bandits…Development is untenable, without healthy citizens, healthy...

Kenya: The political advertisement TV stations will not air

  14 November 2007

Kumekucha posts a video of an advertisement that, according to him, Kenyan TV stations have been warned against airing it: “The following advert was reportedly intercepted by government agents who warned media houses in Kenya, especially TV stations, of dire consequences should it find its way onto the airwaves.”

Kenya: Mobile phones give new relevance to rural folks

  14 November 2007

Rebecca Wanjiku shows how mobile phones give relevance to rural folks: “…woman had received an SMS indicating that she has been entered into a draw and she could win shs 6,000. But the sight of the figures spured new excitement as they thought they had hit a minor jackpot.”