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4 February 2010

Stories from 4 February 2010

Ukraine: “If Google Were a State-Owned Company…”

A Lviv-based blogger mocks Ukrainian state bureaucracy and red tape, describing what it would take to do a Google search if Google were a Ukrainian state-owned company. Most readers find the parody hilarious, albeit a bit scary and a bit sad - because is is so close to truth.

Written by Veronica Khokhlova
4 February 2010

Spain: Citizen Journalist Award

The Spanish citizen journalism site Bottup announces its 2nd Citizen Journalist Award. The winner, open to anyone in the world, will receive up to 1,800 euros towards a trip to...

Written by Eduardo Avila
4 February 2010

Haiti: Tent Cities

~/zaboka reports on conditions in the Haitian tent cities, which sprung up as a result of the homelessness caused by the devastating January 12 earthquake: “I was amazed by how...

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco
4 February 2010

Suriname: Tattoo You

At Paramaribo SPAN, Christopher Cozier considers the work of a tattoo artist “using skin as another canvas”, which “coincides with the painted decorations on Paramaribo minibuses, reaching out to a...

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco
4 February 2010

Dominica: On Censorship

Dominica Weekly puts forward its take on the issue of censorship, commenting: “Dominican authorities must pay close attention to other lyrics which glorify guns, drugs, violence or deviant behaviour. Calypso,...

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco
4 February 2010

Bermuda, Barbados: Indebted

As Bermuda's debt climbs, Vexed Bermoothes thinks that “government would downsize both its expectations and its size, institute rigorous budgets and controls, and get a grip on its finances”; Barbados...

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco
4 February 2010

Yakuza and cops have something to teach

Former Yomiuri Shimbun journalist Jake Adelstein writes of his experience as crime reporter in Japan in two juicy entries titled Everything I Ever Really Needed to Know I learned From...

Written by Scilla Alecci
4 February 2010

Japan: Snow Candle Sparking Hope for Haiti

Over 100 international students of the International University of Japan joined together to build a snow ball in lighting the candle of hope for Haitians who have been suffering from the earthquake devastation since January 12th.

Written by Sopheap Chak
4 February 2010

Who writes about ICT4D online?

After several months of dedicated analysis about how ICT for development is covered on the web, here are some thoughts from Global Voices about the online availability of information about ICT4D

Written by Ivan Sigal
4 February 2010

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