All Posts Tagged With: "Cyberactivism"
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 [...]
20Aug2008 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 2 comments | Continued
Activists Meet the Academy: GVO Summit Day 1, Session 4
Participants of the fourth session of Global Voices first day of its Summit 2008, discussed the tools to help create better internet access while maintaining anonymity. The session, which carried the title “Front Line Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge,” provided hands-on information for internet users from repressive states and those with freer governments.
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13Jul2008 | Nawaat.org | 0 comments | Continued
المدونات تزاحم الصحافة الرسمية في تونس
وأصبح العديد من الصحفيين التونسيين ينظرون بكثير من الاهتمام إلى طريقة المدونين في صناعة الخبر، خصوصا بعد أن تحول المدون من مجرد كاتب خواطر إلى ناقد اجتماعي واقتصادي وسياسي. [...]
8Jul2008 | Nawaat.org | 3 comments | Continued
قمة أصوات عالمية ببودابست: بإتجاه حركة دولية لمناهضة الحجب
7Jul2008 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 0 comments | Continued
Authoritarian governments can lock up bloggers. It is harder to outwit them
WHAT do Barbra Streisand and the Tunisian president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, have in common? They both tried to block material they dislike from appearing on the internet. And they were both spectacularly unsuccessful. In 2003 Ms Streisand objected to aerial photographs of her home in Malibu appearing in a collection of publicly available coastline pictures. She sued [...]
28Jun2008 | Nawaat.org | 0 comments | Continued
Net activism rattles Arabs
Facebook, the popular social networking site, is becoming more than just a cyber meeting place as it turns into a powerful vehicle for social change.
Squeezing out MySpace as the site of the moment and with 75million users (more than the population of most countries), it appears to be the most popular meeting place in the [...]
27Jun2008 | Nir Boms | 0 comments | Continued
النظام التونسي محاصر على الأنترنت و سلاحه الوحيد هو الحجب
12Jun2008 | Nawaat.org | 0 comments | Continued
Google Earth bombing for a free Tunisia
You’ve heard of Google bombing. Here’s an instant classic piece of Google Earth bombing, courtesy of the Tunisian opposition to a rather nasty dictatorship. The premise: That even despots like Tunisia’s Ben Ali want check out their house in Google Earth:-) His palace is now smothered with YouTube video testimonies by political prisoners (turn on the YouTube layer if it isn’t already).
28May2008 | Ogle Earth | 0 comments | Continued
أشرطة الفيديو الحقوقية تحاصر قصر بن علي بقرطاج
23May2008 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 1 comment | Continued
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.
22May2008 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 2 comments | Continued
Internet : Refuge des opinions arabes
Les tensions qui secouent le monde arabe, guerre en Irak, conflit israélo-palestinien, tension politique au Liban, sont souvent présentées à travers des images brèves à la télévision ou à travers le prisme des commentaires d’hommes politiques ou de spécialistes. Mais que disent vraiment les Arabes? Quels sont les débats qui animent ces sociétés? Quelles sont [...]
21May2008 | Nawaat.org | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
6May2008 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 1 comment | Continued
Sami Ben Gharbia : La censure transforme l’homme en âne et la société en écurie
Natif de Bizerte, le blogueur tunisien Sami Ben Gharbia est un farouche défenseur de la liberté d’expression qui a préféré quitter son pays plutôt que de se taire. Après un long périple qui l’a mené du Tchad en Iran en passant par l’Arabie Saoudite, il vit aujourd’hui aux Pays-Bas qui lui a accordé l’asile politique. [...]
23Apr2008 | The Arab Press Network | 0 comments | Continued









