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Students in India Take to the Airwaves

November 18, 2007
From India Times: Campus radio has students hooked 8 Nov, 2007, 1637 hrs IST,Shreya Biswas, TNN

Korea's RTV Celebrates 5th Anniversary

November 2, 2007
Korea's RTV was an important intervention in Korean broadcasting.
RTV is the first public access channel in Korea.

Hype Vs Reality in Internet/Lap Top Development

October 26, 2007
The one-laptop-per-child hype.
A lot of buzz at the Tunis meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society (organized by UNESCO and the ITU in 2005) was generated by a presentation by Nicholas Negroponte about an MIT project to design and implement an inexpensiv

liso Labantu: Photo Project in South African Townships

October 22, 2007
Photo Project

 

 

Filmmaker Florian Opitz facing 14 years of prison in Nigeria

October 20, 2007
Filmmakers were doing research on the Niger Delta.

Coolock Teens Send Message to Paper Tiger

October 9, 2007
Irish teens make their own radio programs and send a greeting to Paper Tiger Television in the US.

Niger Radio Station Head Taken to Prison

October 1, 2007
Mousa Kaka was arrested.
Niger: Moussa Kaka Taken to Niamey Prison Without Explanation Reporters sans Frontières (Paris) PRESS RELEASE 25 September 2007Reporters Without Borders today c

Participatory Communication by Alfonso Gumucio

October 1, 2007
Theater for health in Nigeria.
Photos from a Theater Project in Nigeria to encourage innoculation against polio.

Google Banned in Myanmar

September 28, 2007
Burma bans Google and GMail.
Burma bans Google and gmail Friday, September 28, 2007 Mungpi-- Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com) June 26, 2006- Burmese authorities have blocked the well-known Google search engine and its mail service gmail, according to internet users in Rangoon. "It has been about a week that we cannot access our mails and use Google," a Rangoon resident said. Users attempting to view either of the sites are confronted with a message saying "Access Denied".

Citizen Journalists in Myanmar

September 28, 2007
a program to train journalists.
Citizen Journalists' Evade Blackout On Myanmar
 
News Blogs and Shaky Videos Find Way Into Mainstream;
By GEOFFREY A.