Posts Tagged ‘Yemen’
Using the Internet to Empower Women in Yemen
Rising Voices | EWAMT Workshop
I love stories about how the Internet and technology are being used as platforms for free expression around the world, so every once in a while, I’ll share them with you. I read a very interesting series of reports in Rising Voices about a really inspirational project. Rising Voices is an outreach initiative of Global Voices, and their goal is to bring new voices from new communities and speaking new languages to the global conversation. They do this by providing resources and funding to communities whose points of view are under-represented in global media.
In Yemen, Rising Voices is partnering with the Hand in Hand Initiative and Ghaida’a al-Absi to present new media training courses for female politicians, activists, and human rights workers to diversify the Arabic-language blogosphere and to build an online network of Yemeni gender activists.
According to Rising Voices’ blogger Rezwan, the most recent workshop was held on October 15th, and participants blogged about a range of topics, from the spread of HIV/AIDS to poetry to the increase in the rate of drug addiction in Yemen.
To learn more about this fascinating project, go to: http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/projects/empowerment-of-women-activists-in-media-techniques-yemen/
For Rezwan’s story about the most recent workshop, including links to the participants’ blogs, go to: http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2009/10/20/ewamt-blogging-and-social-networking-energizes-women-in-yemen/.
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- Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace December 19, 2011Description from MIT Press: A daily battle for rights and freedoms in cyberspace is being waged in Asia. At the epicenter of this contest is China--home to the world's largest Internet population and what is perhaps the world's most advanced Internet censorship and surveillance regime in cyberspace. Resistance to China's Internet controls come […]rheacock
- All three of the @OpenNet Initiative books can now be found, free and open access, on a single site (via @jpalfrey) December 19, 2011[…]ashar
- Better Data for a Better Internet December 2, 2011The Berkman Center enthusiastically shares an article from Faculty Co-Directors John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain on "Better Data for a Better Internet," published in this month's edition of Science. The piece explores how current debates and discussions about Internet policy can be more effectively informed by better data and research method […]ashar
- Berkman Buzz: November 4, 2011 November 4, 2011A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations If you would like to receive the Buzz weekly via email, please sign up here. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below. * Wendy Seltzer reports on last week's ICANN public meeting […]rheacock
- Berkman Buzz: August 12, 2011 August 12, 2011A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations If you would like to receive the Buzz weekly via email, please sign up here. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below. * Dan Gillmor cautions against social media surveillance * The Op […]rheacock
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