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BRAZIL
Community Radio Flourishes Online
By Fabíola Ortiz*
RIO DE JANEIRO - Community radio stations in Brazil are finding the internet and user-friendly information technologies to be valuable allies for their broadcasts, which focus on citizenship, social equity and human rights.
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PHILIPPINES
These Shots Target AIDS
By Kara Santos
MANILA - A unique campaign in the Philippines is using stylised online photos to raise awareness on HIV/AIDS. Fashion and conceptual photographer Niccolo Cosme first initiated Project Headshot Clinic in 2007 as a way of merging profile photos online and advertising.
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CLIMATE CHANGE-AFRICA
Farming By Phone
By Isaiah Esipisu
DURBAN, South Africa - Francis Mburu used to keep indigenous cattle in Entasopia village in the semi- arid Kajiado region, 160 kilometres southwest of Nairobi. However, increasing temperatures and frequent droughts in Kenya have made this difficult in recent years.
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Argentina Inundated with E-Waste
By Marcela Valente *
BUENOS AIRES - The shop is filled to bursting with buyers. One by one, customers follow a salesperson to one of a row of booths where they are provided with a wealth of information on the mobile phones for sale. But nobody tells them what to do with the old phones they are replacing.
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ZIMBABWE
Rural Women Banking By Mobile Phone
By Ignatius Banda
PLUMTREE, Zimbabwe - Collecting the monthly subscriptions for her co-operative has always been a headache for Thelma Nare, 41. This is because Nare lives in Tshitshi, Plumtree in rural Zimbabwe, about 60 kilometres away from the humdrum of the nearest town centre where banks are located.
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MIDEAST
Israeli Military Fires Up the Creative Side
By Pierre Klochendler
NEAR TEL AVIV, Central Israel - War brings economic development, we're told at times. Like the cliché or not, in their case, Israelis have become a successful start-up nation by building a powerful start-up military.
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ARGENTINA
Digital Revolution Hits Secondary Schools
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Every student and teacher has a laptop with Internet connection in half of the public secondary schools in Argentina, even in remote rural villages or on islands.
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INDIA
Massive Digital Divide in the Land of IT
By Sujoy Dhar
NEW DELHI - In a remote Indian village in the Western state of Maharashtra, a fourth-grader named Suraj Balu Zore proudly told IPS that he can now effortlessly operate a laptop computer.
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MIDEAST
Virtually, There Are No Borders
By Pierre Klochendler
RAMALLAH - Israeli entrepreneurs dream of a region without borders. Given their country's remoteness from its vicinity, that's a natural need. It's a dream also nurtured by their Palestinian counterparts, and a national necessity given their own encirclement by Israel. That's where high-tech comes into play…
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GREECE
Social Media Advances Against Elite Owners
Analysis by Apostolis Fotiadis
ATHENS - An unflattering report on Greece’s media by a former United States envoy to this country, revealed by Wikileaks, evoked little public reaction because it was taken as a faithful portrayal.
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OP-ED
Manipulating Social Networks
By Jillian C. York*
SAN FRANCISCO - If there's one thing that net-savvy activists from Tunisia to Bahrain are aware of, it’s that the Internet isn’t always safe. From the constant threat of surveillance to the knowledge that posting the wrong picture on Facebook can get you arrested - or worse - activists have for a long time taken measures to mitigate risks, censoring themselves, using special tools like Tor, or staying off certain networks altogether.
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Q&A
"When People Are Mad, They Start to React" to Corruption
José Domingo Guariglia interviews Brazilian corruption map creator RAQUEL DINIZ
NEW YORK - The fight against corruption has taken centre stage in the government of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, and has led to the resignation or dismissal of several ministers over just a few months.
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LATIN AMERICA
Citizens Chart Crime Using Online Maps
By José Domingo Guariglia *
NEW YORK - "I was walking down the street, talking on my cell phone, when a guy on a motorbike came by and grabbed the phone out of my hand. I ran after him but I couldn't catch him. He had probably been following me."
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New Scientific Network on Climate Change Adaptation
By Milagros Salazar *
TURRIALBA, Costa Rica - In Central America the temperature is rising and forests are taking longer to grow, while farther south, the Amazon rainforests have yet to feel the effects of global warming. This is just one example of how climate change is manifested differently in different parts of the region.
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CHINA
Microbloggers Launch Long March to Freedom
By Gordon Ross
BEIJING - China’s rapidly growing legion of microbloggers is proving a worthy foe against ongoing government efforts to monitor, influence and censor information on the country’s vast Internet. Government efforts have failed to curb an outpouring of anger and grief in the wake of the recent Wenzhou train disaster.
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I nformation and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are transforming our world, but digital divides mean that access to them is far from equal, between and within regions, countries, socio-economic classes and genders. IPS journalism explores how ICTs are making a difference in the context of development.