Software for Human Rights
It’s a good week for launches, evidently. Psiphon, a clever anticensorship tool developed by the folks at Citizen Lab in Toronto, with sponsorship from OSI’s… Read More »Software for Human Rights
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Ethiopia Telecoms: Oops, they did it again…
Andrew Heavens has unhappy news from Ethiopia in his latest update on Global Voices: all Blogspot blogs, plus a selected set of anti-Zenawi (or pro-democracy,… Read More »Ethiopia Telecoms: Oops, they did it again…
Egypt locks, China blocks
Egyptian blogger Abd al-Karim Suleiman – more commonly called Abdel Kareem – was detained last year for online writings about sectarian clashes in his neighborhood… Read More »Egypt locks, China blocks
Africa in China: No to Taiwan, Yes to Infrastructure
China rolled out the red carpet for 48 African leaders this past week, hosting a three-day summit to commemorate fifty years of diplomatic relations between… Read More »Africa in China: No to Taiwan, Yes to Infrastructure
Mapping land distribution in Bahrain
We’ve got Bahrain on the brain here at Berkman today – with Mahmood’s Den blocked, we’re all interested in precisely how the Bahrani government is… Read More »Mapping land distribution in Bahrain
A picture worth a thousand blogposts…
Mahmood Al-Yousif, the mastermind behind Mahmood.tv, is one of the bloggers I always point to when I try to explain the concept of “bridge blogging”.… Read More »A picture worth a thousand blogposts…