My impressions of Monday’s meeting at the Bush Institue are somewhat pointillistic – I’ve ended up having interviews and conversations throughout that have kept me from blogging the blow by blow. And personal events have meant that this summary isn’t… Read More »Reflections on the cyberdissidents event
Freedom House, a seventy-year old organization, founded by Wendell Willkie and Eleanor Roosevelt, is now focusing on measuring freedom in online spaces. Christopher Walker and Robert Guerra are representing the organization at the George W. Bush Institute meeting on cyberdissidents,… Read More »Freedom House at the George W. Bush Institute
I’m speaking today at the George W. Bush Institute at Southern Methodist University on a conference on cyberdissidents. My colleague Hal Roberts and I are here to offer the technological counterpart to what’s otherwise a meeting to celebrate and recognize… Read More »GWBush Institute – opening remarks
U.S. Agency’s Slow Pace Endangers Foreign Aid – New York Times Less than 4% of money approved by the Millenium Development Challenge has been spent in developing nations. MDC is moving very slowly and putting allocated funds at risk in… Read More »links for 2007-12-09
What if Zimbabwe declared “cyberwar” and no one noticed? Evidently, Global Voices is one of the sources of “‘virulent propaganda’ to delegitimise ‘our just struggle against Anglo-Saxons’.” We’re one of 41 websites blacklisted by the ZANU-PF government, a list that… Read More »Zimbabwe blacklists Global Voices
By now, afficianados of digital politics have seen Phil De Vellis’s remix of Apple’s “1984” ad, where an iPod-wearing athlete throws a hammer through a giant video screen of a droning Hillary Clinton. An Obama supporter, De Vellis made the… Read More »Democrats invent the remix, only three years after the Tunisians