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• A billion for a billion: WFP tackles hunger through the web

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 487
  You know its bound to fail, but embracing the web and social networking in the manner WFP has needs to be recognised, celebrated and supported as best one can. As reported in UN Dispatch , the World Food Program launched a new campaign, a billion for a billion . The idea is to link the 1 billion internet users ...
  5 days ago

• Tamil not an official language in some e-gov sites in Sri Lanka?

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 487
  I wrote in April 2008 that , “You know there’s something seriously wrong with e-gov when the humanitarian section of official website of the President of Sri Lanka has only a single mention of a human (though one wonders whether the person mentioned also fell into the animal welfare directives of the ...
  6 days ago

• Moomeo: A perfect site for whistleblowers and anti-corruption initiatives?

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 487
  Moomeo is a relatively new site based on a powerful, simple idea. It creates a webpage out of any email sent to post@moomeo.com. This website comes with easy links to share it on Facebook, Twitter and anywhere else on the web. Importantly, it does not show the sender of the email, ensuring that her / his identity is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Journalism, civil society and mobile networks

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 487
  Jude Mathurine from Rhodes University has an interesting presentation on the impact of mobile phone based use of social networks in Africa . I’ve not yet come across a comparable study of new media’s use and impact in Sri Lanka, but the points on slides 3 and 7, noting that the Internet is still an elite medium ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 487
  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 weeks ago

• 1000 posts on Groundviews: Bearing witness, shaping peace

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 487
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mobiles, new media and citizen journalism in Kashmir

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 487
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  Lanka Libertarian — Authority: 407
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 487
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Peace on Facebook

  
  ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) — Authority: 487
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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