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Civil Society Groups Band Together to Protect the Net at E-G8

Written by jessica. Posted on May 27, 2011. Filed under Arabization, Campaigns & Case Studies, News. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
Improvised press conference at e-g8 to protect the net
Yesterday, more civil society groups from around the globe, in the company of digital pioneers such as Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig, CUNY journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, Wealth of Networks author Yochai Benkler, and former ICANN board member Susan Crawford-took a stand for the Internet in an improvised press conference at the E-G8 summit in [...]

A new Arabic-language blogging guide

Written by jessica. Posted on May 26, 2011. Filed under Arabization, For Local NGOs, For Trainers, News, Resources, Training & Coaching. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , . No comments.
cover image of the Arabic blogging guide
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Cairo has published a new 197-page blogging guide in Arabic عبر واتحررـ دليل التدوين (Express and Free Yourself: A Guide to Blogging). It’s released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. ★ Hat tip: @MagdaAbuFadil, director of the Journalism Training Program at the American University of Beirut and a blogger [...]

Listen: How the Syrian Government Is Using Facebook & Hashtags

Written by jessica. Posted on May 23, 2011. Filed under News. No comments.
Listen to the weekly radio program On the Media as Jillian York, the director of international freedom of expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, talks about how Syria is using the Internet to track activists: Photo by Syriana.