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Last update: October 28, 2008
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Burma's crackdown
Interview w/ John Palfrey, Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Harvard Law School) Quote from article: ?The Burmese citizens have access to a sharply limited version of the Internet, which they call the Myanmar Internet. The military junta seems to have been thinking of the Internet as more like a local area network [LAN] than like the World Wide Web. They see the Internet as an internal network with as few links to the outside world as they can manage, particularly when it comes to political information. Burma is alongside places like North Korea in terms of offering one of the most limited, crudely blocked versions of the Internet in the world?
OpenNet Initiative
A collaboration among researchers at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of TorontoQuote from the site:?Internet censorship and surveillance are growing global phenomena. ONI?s mission is to identify and document Internet filtering and surveillance, and to promote and inform wider public dialogs about such practices.?
?Smart mobs- the next social revolution? ? a book by Howard RheingoldUsing the power of SMS and other web-related technologies to capitalize on the power of collective action Quote (Wikipedia): ?A smart mob is a form of self-structuring social organization through technology-mediated, intelligent emergent behavior? The term was coined by Howard Rheingold in his book Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. Smart mobs are ?an indication of the evolving communication technologies that will empower the people?.A brief article on the concept by the New York Times here (don?t let the silly first example on Prince Williams make you give up? keep reading?.):http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406E7DD153AF936A25751C1A9649C8B63
Specifically on GPS
?Geospatial Technology: Mapping For Human Rights?
Quote: ?Geospatial technologies using satellite imagery, internet-integrated mapping or GPS aren?t just for spyware - these days they are employed to detect, map and analyse human rights violations to help NGOs like Amnesty International.?http://pingmag.jp/2008/03/14/geospatial-mapping-technology-for-human-rights/
GPS and internal displacement?
Quote: ?[?]GPs have been widely recognized as authoritative by a number of international and regional organizations. In addition, governments, UN agencies, regional organizations, and non-governmental organizations use the GPs as the basis for programs and advocacy related to IDPs. [?]a growing number of governments and regional organizations are using them [GPS] as the basis for laws and policies on internal displacement.?
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