The amount of information already out there is mind-boggling. Equally so is the amount each of us generate through emails, photos and multimedia content generation. All this means, according to an IDC report (The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe), that in 2007 for the first time, “the amount of information created, captured, or replicated exceeded […]
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Updated Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents by RSF
Reporters without Borders released a new version of the Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents today, coinciding with their Online Free Expression Day. The handbook offers advice and technical tips for the best way to launch a blog and how to get round online censorship. It includes an explanation of how to blog anonymously and contains […]
Interview with Dan Gillmor on Citizen Journalism at GK3
Interview with Dan Gillmor at GKP GK III in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 13th December 2007. I moderated a panel titled Pushing the envelop: New Media, Citizens Journalism, Human Rights and Development that had Dan on it at the Global Knowledge Partnership, GK III conference. Interviewer: Ahmed Shifan from Young Asia Television Clip 1 – What […]
Ushahidi – Testimonies of violence in Kenya on the web
“Google Earth supposedly shows in great detail where the damage is being done on the ground. It occurs to me that it will be useful to keep a record of this, if one is thinking long-term. For the reconciliation process to occur at the local level the truth of what happened will first have to […]
Communicating Disasters: Seeking common ground for media and disaster managers
Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book (Edited by Nalaka Gunawardene and Frederick Noronha with a Foreword by Sir Arthur C Clarke) was published in December 2007. It is a multi-author book that discusses how information, education and communication can help create disaster resilient communities across the Asia Pacific region, home to half of humanity. […]
ICT4Peace in 2007: Significant work, applied research and challenges
It’s been an bloody eventful year, literally and metaphorically. Sri Lanka’s war escalated dramatically over the course of the year, with the LTTE suffering significantly at the hand of a Government hell-bent on its complete destruction. The timbre of democracy in Sri Lanka took many blows, not just through the erosion of human rights and […]
France24 and Citizen Journalists around the world collaborate in “The Observers”
France24′s beta initiative called The Observers follows in the vein of CNN’s iReport to give prominence to and ostensibly strengthen the station’s own reporting perspectives from citizen journalism content around the world. Though there’s nothing on Sri Lanka at the moment, the content already on the site examines alternative and interesting perspectives on the recent […]
Galle Literary Festival asks whether bloggers can be taken seriously
The Galle Literary Festival has organised a panel discussion on blogging – details here. Geoffrey Philp, a writer, poet and blogger from Jamaica avers that “we need to preserve our literature. For what else is literature but memory and promise: who we thought we have been and what we imagine ourselves to be.” Do blogs […]
The telling lack of timely SMS news alerts on the arrest and detention of Tamils
Writing on the arrest and detention of hundreds of Tamils in the South of Sri Lanka, Ange in an article published on Groundviews had a very interesting observation on SMS based news services in Sri Lanka at a time such as this: I wonder at the comfortable ignorance the majority of us enjoy being in. […]
Journalism in Second Life – CNN enters the fray
First it was media such as The Metaverse Messenger. Then Reuters. Now CNN enters the world of journalism within Second Life by opening an iReport centre in Second Life: Just as CNN asks its real-life audience to submit I-Reports — user-generated content submitted from cell phones, computers, cameras and other equipment for broadcast and online […]
