I first met Mohamed Nanabhay, the 29-year-old South African, during the 3rd Annual Aljazeera Forum in Doha, Qatar, in 2007. Mohamed is a prominent blogger, a friend and a colleague from Global Voices covering Qatar where he is based. Mohamed is the former Aljazeera head of New Media and the mastermind of the Aljazeera’s successful invasion of the Web.
Interview with Robert Guerra about the Freedom on the Net Index
A new report on Internet freedom was launched by Freedom House, an organization which monitors freedom around the world. The “Freedom on the Net” study surveyed 15 countries on the basis of two key components: access to Web and mobile technology and the free flow of information through it. The report covered events that took place in the years 2007 and 2008, identifying new emerging threats to Internet freedom.
برنامج مُولّْد اللغة الخشبية التونسية
إسترتيجيات القمع و المقاومة على الشبكة التونسية
North Africa: are political websites more likely to get hacked?
Political opposition websites in North African countries, particularly in Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania, are becoming a primary target of hackers. This new phenomenon of defacing opposition and dissident websites emerged first in Tunisia, where at least 14 websites and blogs were targeted between 2007 and 2008, and seems to be spreading across the region as a result of the attempt to muzzle free […]
Tunisia: Video message to Barack Obama
We all remember what the French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared, in his victory speech, shortly after winning the French presidential election in 2007: “I want to issue a call to everyone in the world who believes in the values of tolerance, freedom, democracy, humanism, to all those who are persecuted by tyranny, by dictatorships […] I want to tell them that it will be France’s pride and its duty to be at their side.
Gaza – Map of Bombing Intensity & Casualties, Dec. 27 -12 Jan, 2009
The following map shows the bombing intensity and casualties in Gaza strip between December 27th and January 12th. The map […]
فيديو: كلمة محمد عبوّ في منتدى الصحافة العربية الذي مُنع من الحضور فيه
لقاء تلفزي حول المدونين العرب مع الصحفية نجاة شرف الدين
Tunisie : Réduire au silence la liberté d’expression sur Internet
Bloquer des sites web 2.0 tels que Youtube, Dailymotion, Facebook, barrer l’accès à des sites et blogs locaux est la forme la plus courante de censure d’Internet en Tunisie. Il doit être souligné, cependant, que ce n’est pas le seul outil dans les mains du régime. La Tunisie s’est adaptée à la révolution du web 2.0 en concevant une stratégie plus large, qui s’appuie sur une large panoplie d’outils, incluant répression et persécution contre les éditeurs, blogueurs et dissidents en ligne.
Silencing online speech in Tunisia
Blocking web 2.0 websites (Youtube, Dailymotion, Facebook) and barring access to local outspoken websites and blogs is the most obvious way of cracking down of the online free speech in Tunisia. It should be emphasized, however, that this is only one tool in the regime’s hand. Tunisia has adapted to the web 2.0 revolution by developing a broader strategy composed of a wide range of instruments […]
قمة أصوات عالمية ببودابست: بإتجاه حركة دولية لمناهضة الحجب
دليل التدوين من أجل قضية الآن متوفر باللغة العربية
أشرطة الفيديو الحقوقية تحاصر قصر بن علي بقرطاج
Human rights videos besiege the Tunisian Presidential palace
Tunisia blocked access to both popular video-sharing websites, Youtube and Dailymotion, in order to prevent Tunisian netizens from watching video content featuring testimonies from former political prisoners and human rights activists. However, and as shown in this example, Tunisian cyberactivists are successful enough in besieging Carthage presidential palace, on Google Earth, with tens of human rights videos.
قاطعو بلوغر إن كنتم صادقين
Egypt: Facebooking the Struggle
After little less than a month following the April 6 strike, during which a number of prominent Egyptian bloggers and internet activists were arrested, preparations for the next round of a planned general strike to mark the 80th birthday of President Mubarak, on May 4, 2008, are currently spreading all over the blogosphere and the Internet. Blogger and activist Nora Younis shares some of her ideas with us about […]
Sarkozy a voté Ben Ali
« Le premier des droits de l’homme, c’est manger, être soigné, recevoir une éducation et avoir un habitat ». On se souvient toujours de cette désormais célèbre phrase de l’ancien président français Jacques Chirac lors de sa visite en Tunisie qui avait provoqué un tollé. L’année dernière, son successeur, Nicolas Sarkoz, en entamant sa première visite d’Etat en Tunisie avait souligné que « le président Ben Ali est le premier à reconnaître […]