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EGYPT: Virtually, Some Real Freedom
By Cam McGrath
CAIRO - Egyptians critical of their government are using new media and the Internet to expose its improprieties and press for social change.
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LATIN AMERICA: Ensuring Democratisation of Digital Broadcasting
By Daniela Estrada*
SANTIAGO - Just as they did with analogue television, the countries of Latin America have opted for different digital broadcasting standards. But more than this technological diversity, what concerns social organisations is the absence of policies and regulatory frameworks to ensure a true democratisation of this means of communication.
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POLITICS-ITALY: From Democracy to Videocracy
By Matteo Fracassi
NEW YORK - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, one of the world's most powerful media moguls, is being increasingly accused of using his six news organisations and television channels to manipulate the country's political life and public opinion.
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COSTA RICA: Media Bill Languishes in Congress
By Daniel Zueras
SAN JOSÉ - A bill on the press and freedom of expression that has been kicking around in the Costa Rican Congress for the past eight years, which deals with questions like source confidentiality, access to public information, and libel and slander laws, was saved in late August from being permanently shelved by the legislature.
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JAPAN: New Ruling Party Poised to Lift Foreign Press Restrictions
By Catherine Makino
TOKYO - The newly elected Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) plans to open government organisations to the foreign press, party member Kuniko Tanioka revealed in an interview with IPS.
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Q&A: Women Are Not Wallpaper
Miren Gutierrez* and Oriana Boselli interview filmmaker ERIK GANDINI
ROME - Something new is appearing on the Italian screen. About time, some may say.
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MEDIA-ASIA: Senior Citizens Log On to the Wide, Wired World
By Lynette Lee Corporal* – Asia Media Forum
BANGKOK - They may be in their twilight years but Asia’s senior citizens are not ready to be left behind — and forgotten — by the wide, wired world.
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SERBIA: Media Wakes Up to New Curbs
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - A controversial new law on media came into force in Serbia Tuesday, raising fears that freedom of expression will now be restricted by censorship or self- censorship.
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MEDIA-ASIA: Proofreaders Going Extinct in Newsrooms
By Lynette Lee Corporal* - Asia Media Forum/IPS
BANGKOK - They were usually the first to arrive at work and the last to leave, and often took the blame for boo-boos in the following day's issue of the newspaper. Now the newsroom's unsung heroes, who engage in a daily deadline battle armed only with their sharp eye for detail and those squiggly proofreading marks, are facing a new kind of threat — extinction.
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Q&A: "Blogmailing" to Foment Debate on Cuban Filmmaking
Dalia Acosta interviews Cuban intellectual JUAN ANTONIO GARCÍA BORRERO
HAVANA - Blogging has taught him to share his deepest concerns with people who think differently, to treat others and himself more compassionately, to learn from even the most impassioned disputes, and above all, to show that far from being the sole possessor of truth, he is desperately seeking it.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Early Warning Systems for the Coming Storm
By Stephen Leahy
GENEVA - Climate change is here. The challenge in Geneva this week is to find ways to help the world cope with a climate that will have more and worse extremes in terms of temperatures, floods, and storms.
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PAKISTAN: Female Journalist Pursues Sexual Harassment Case
By Zofeen Ebrahim*
KARACHI, Pakistan - When is a telephone call considered sexual harassment?
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PERU: Rural Highlands Communities Coming Online
By Milagros Salazar
CUZCO, Peru - Little by little, rural communities in southern Peru are beginning to take advantage of the internet to acquire new knowledge and increase their income. But the use of computers in rural areas faces numerous challenges, from illiteracy to fear of the unknown or questions about the sustainability of these new communications initiatives once they are left in local hands.
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Globalisation is more than free trade: it means real-time interconnection of peoples, no matter the distance. And development is more than economic growth: it is access to information, freedom of expression, and bridging the digital gap between rich and poor. IPS tracks the vital role that communication -- in all its various forms -- plays in our ever-changing world.