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• The arrest of the ‘blogger’ in Sri Lanka: Crowd-sourcing trumps traditional media follow up

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 118
  Ayubowan , a blog I didn’t know of before, helpfully posted a screen grab of a post from Gossip Lanka , a blog I also didn’t know of before, on the recent arrest of a blogger. Gossip Lanka’s post , which is in Sinhala, doesn’t render at all on my Mac, which is why Ayubowan’s screen grab is helpful. The ...
  3 days ago

• 1000 posts on Groundviews: Bearing witness, shaping peace

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 118
  Exactly three years after its launch,  Groundviews published its 1000th post today. In it Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu identifies the site with quality debate and asks citizens to use it to canvass their ideas for constitutional reform, governance, human rights and the economy and whatever else they see as ...
  5 days ago

• Mobiles, new media and citizen journalism in Kashmir

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 118
  Photo credit: BBC World Service Kashmir has, according to a new BBC World Service documentary , the highest rate of mobile phone usage per capita in India although services were only introduced in 2003. As the BBC reporter points out, without mobile phone services there would be no cyber resistance. And there’s ...
  1 week ago

• difference a few words make! arrested for internet threats or offensive remarks? + sanjana hattotuwas silly spin on this

  
  Lanka Libertarian — Authority: 106
  a person named gayan rajapakse was arrested by police for threatening mahinda buffalo yesterday. note the word "threat". however some ppl chose to report the cause of arrest as "offensive and defamatory comments regarding the president and the secretary of defense" . same newspaper (mirror) website in ...
  1 week ago

• The Mobile Phone Jirga: Supporting Rule of Law in Afghanistan with ODR

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 118
  My friend Colin Rule’s put up this presentation on the use of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) using mobiles in Afghanistan around which he and I had several rounds of email discussion. I have championed the use of mobiles in ODR for years , and it’s good to see initiatives such as this use infrastructure ...
  1 week ago

• Peace on Facebook

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 118
  The Persuasive Technology Lab of Stanford University seems to have teamed up with Facebook to create a dedicated page on Facebook celebrating initiatives and conversations using and on Facebook in support of peace. http://peace.facebook.com is in and of itself not a tool for peacebuilding, and does not for example ...
  1 week ago

• The premier location on the web for progressive content and debates on post-war Sri Lanka

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 118
  Post-war, Groundviews has fast become the most frequented website in Sri Lanka for progressive, civil debate over content critically analyzing peace, governanc, democracy and other vital issues. There is no comparable website to date in the country, even amongst mainstream media on the web. The staggering volume ...
  3 weeks ago

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