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The conversation so far:
Ethan's critique of "Second Superpower", "Emergent Democracy"Joi's response, on finding the next Salam Pax
Examples of emergent democracy from Joi and Ethan's readers
Views from the rest of the world
Hossein Derakhshan, Iranian pied piper for blogsIranFilter - translated overview of 100,000 persian language blogs
Living on the Planet - global blog content aggregator
Narconews - trilingual news on the drug war
BlogAfrica catalog and aggregator
Adam Chambas's Accra Crisis Blog
Rebecca MacKinnon's NKZone - alternative reporting from North Korea
Oh My News, South Korea's brilliant citizen journalism project
Ghana Web, news and opinion
Subang Jaya e-news from Malaysia
Blogalization, content in translation from blogs around the world
Efforts to build cross-cultural dialogue, give a voice to people in developing nations
Open Knowledge Network content from the developing world, for the developing world. And, in KiswahiliVoices04 Voices for folks without a voice in the 2004 election
SARS Watch. Became a platform for Chinese voices on SARS to communicate, uncensored
Kabissa - online discussion for African NGOs
What could we do we do:
Online legislation in EstoniaSARI - leading application became lobbying regional government via wireless internet.
Cellphones, talk radio and election monitoring in Ghana
Smart mobs, SMS in Kenya
What does a cellphone-based anticorruption system look like?
How do we launch OhMyNews in every nation
You might want to explore the edges of ED hackers. Think of them as invading germs and wonder what might serve as antibodies for an ED.
Why all the focus on the West finding "foreign" bloggers. Why so much emphasis on cross-country?
Why not more emphasis on helping people talk to other people in their own culture/nation?
ED Blog Projects you'll hear about soon (focus: africa)
- online monitoring of elections
- Emergent Democracy Africa (annual event)
- blogging workshop for african journalists & writers (Paris)
Ethan, Joi - I'm still working on my essay. It'll be ready later this week. Keep posting.
ED Blog Projects you'll hear about soon (focus: africa)
- online monitoring of elections
- Emergent Democracy Africa (annual event)
- blogging workshop for african journalists & writers (Paris)
Ethan, Joi - I'm still working on my essay. It'll be ready later this week. Keep posting.
Thank you for this interesting, extra special post with useful links.
the most important steps to take are:
- explain normal people the "good power" of the internet: for many it just has a negative taste (viruses, transparent consumers). They almost fear it. Only if the masses know, that internet is true democracy something could change.
- public sites, social sites should be made from freelancers on the web. of course, someone has to control and drive the projects. since there is all the smud in politics and business, people are longing for more transparence - low costs, and votes for the themes politicians have to talk about...
the most important steps to take are:
- explain normal people the "good power" of the internet: for many it just has a negative taste (viruses, transparent consumers). They almost fear it. Only if the masses know, that internet is true democracy something could change.
- public sites, social sites should be made from freelancers on the web. of course, someone has to control and drive the projects. since there is all the smud in politics and business, people are longing for more transparence - low costs, and votes for the themes politicians have to talk about...
the most important steps to take are:
- explain normal people the "good power" of the internet: for many it just has a negative taste (viruses, transparent consumers). They almost fear it. Only if the masses know, that internet is true democracy something could change.
- public sites, social sites should be made from freelancers on the web. of course, someone has to control and drive the projects. since there is all the smud in politics and business, people are longing for more transparence - low costs, and votes for the themes politicians have to talk about...