Stories from June, 2008
Advox Conference: Stephanie Hankey's slides about Tactical Technology Collective
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “NGO’s and on-the ground activists: Defending the Voices” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Nart Villeneuve's slides on censorship circumvention
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Frontline Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Andrew Heavens on Censorship in Ethiopia
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Living with censorship” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Rezwan on Self Censorship in media Role of citizen journalists
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Living with censorship” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Oiwan Lam on The Formation of a post-colonial censorship regime
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Citizen Media and Online Free Speech” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Amine on Exposing Corruption on YouTube “Targuist Sniper”
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Citizen Media and Online Free Speech” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Robert Guerra – Frontline Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Frontline Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Hamid Tehrani about the filtering situation in Iran
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Citizen Media and Online Free Speech” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Awab Alvi on the Battle For A Cyber Free Pakistan
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Towards a Global Anti-Censorship Network” on 27th June 2008 Battle For A Cyber Free Pakistan from Teeth Maestro
Advox Conference: Chris Salzberg on Web Censorship and Public Awareness in Japan
Chris Salzberg discusses internet regulation and censorship trends in Japan Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Towards a Global Anti-Censorship Network” on 27th June 2008 | View...
Advox Conference: Andrey Abozau talks about the Belarusian situation
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Toward a Global anti-censorship network” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox workshops: Robert Guerra on the user perspective
Online Free Speech: Toward a global anti-censorship movement – The User perspective from robertguerra What do people really use, challenges they have, and recommendations for the future.
Advox workshops: Rob Faris on Internet filtering
The future of Internet filtering and the role for activists in documenting filtering. The changing political, legal, social and technical aspects of Internet filtering and discuss a new distributed tool...
Advox workshops: Nart Villeneuve on Detecting internet filtering
Detecting internet filtering Some techniques that people can use to increase the accuracy of censorship reports. | View | Upload your own
Advox workshops: Roger Dingledine on Tor and blocking resistance
A brief overview of Tor and its blocking-resistance design What assumptions we make about government firewalls, how our circumvention approach actually works, and how it's going so far. And if possible, addressing...
Moldavia: sequestration of personal computers of 12 young people for posting critical comments online
On June 4th, 2008, the Râşcani District Court from the Moldavian capital of Kishinev has ordered the sequestration of personal computers of about 12 young people who expressed critical opinions...
Egypt: Great Firewall of China Coming Soon
Egyptian bloggers have one hand on their keyboard and another on their hearts. Following a recent crackdown on bloggers and online activists following the April 6 unrest, some are now predicting the worse is yet to come.
Blog for a Cause! guide is now available in Arabic
Blog for a Cause!, the Global Voices Guide of Blog Advocacy, is now available in Arabic thanks to this translation by the Egyptian journalist and blogger Amr Magdi. The guide outlines easy-to-follow tips on how to use blogs as part of campaigns against injustice and features successful examples of advocacy blogs from around the world.
Egypt: Blogger Kareem El Beheiry released
Egyptian blogger Kareem El Beheiry has been released yesterday from prison. Kareem was arrested by Egyptian police in connection with the April 6th strike in support of the textile workers...
Defending free speech online
Global Voices, Global Voices Advocacy and Média Hungária are pleased to announce the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008, taking place in Budapest, Hungary on June 27-28, 2008. The first day of the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit will feature several panels on matters relating to censorship and online freedom of speech. It will be devoted to discuss the challenges facing freedom of expression and debate the state of censorship and anti-censorship efforts in the world.
