カテゴリー別フィルター 'Africa' containing 44 ポスト menuキーワードを使ってトピックを探す Academia (1)Access (4)Africa (1)Anonymity (6)Arab Spring (2)Art (8)Atheism (1)Australia (3)Blasphemy (7)Blogger (4)Brazil (2)Burma (1)Canada (2)Celebrity (2)Censorship (17)Charlie Hebdo (1)China (5)Christianity (6)Civility (20)Colonialism (1)Copyright (3)Corruption (1)Defamation (14)Democracy (14)Denialism (2)Discrimination (3)Education (8)Egypt (2)Exclusion (1)Facebook (3)Film (1)France (4)Freedom (18)Genocide (1)Germany (4)Google (2)Governance (4)Hate speech (6)Hinduism (1)History (12)Homosexuality (2)Humour (2)Hungary (1)Hunger strike (1)India (4)Internet (19)Internet companies (1)Islam (6)Japan (2)Journalism (11)Knowledge (14)Language (4)Latin America (3)Law (27)Lese majesty (1)Liberalism (6)Libya (1)Literature (2)Media (22)Memory laws (1)Middle East (3)Minorities (1)Money (6)Morality (3)Multiculturalism (4)National security (11)Net neutrality (8)New Zealand (1)Nudity (2)Occupy movement (1)Pakistan (1)Piracy (1)Politics (18)Pornography (5)Power (21)Privacy (15)Protest (8)Public Morality (8)Radio (1)Regulation (1)Religion (12)Reputation (11)Right to information (23)Satire (7)Science (4)Scientology (1)Secrecy (1)Social media (7)South Africa (3)Southeast Asia (1)Surveillance (2)Technology (14)Terrorism (2)Thailand (1)Turkey (3)Twitter (5)United Kingdom (9)United States (6)Violence (13)Whistleblowing (2)Wikipedia (1) The internet alone will not set Africa free Iginio Gagliardone explores the surprising technopolitics of two competing visions of the internet, US and Chinese, in Ethiopia. Attacked, threatened and criminalised: LGBTI freedom of speech in Nigeria Jude Dibia explores the criminalisation and violence faced by the LGBTI community after the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act. For all that is changing, free speech is still ‘under siege’ in Nigeria Bill Snaddon discusses political reform in Nigeria and the prosecution of the killers of Nigerian writers and journalists. How an attempt at ‘libel tourism’ rebounded on a Tanzanian tycoon A British citizen blogged about a Tanzanian media magnate involved in throwing her and her husband off their Tanzanian farm. He sued for libel in a British court. Dominic Burbidge explains. Why ramp up internet surveillance in Nigeria? The Nigerian government is rumoured to have sealed a $40m dollar contract for internet surveillance technology. There is no clear justification for this “secret” deal, and no assurance that the technology would be used fairly, given Nigeria’s lack of established rights for citizen privacy. By Nwachukwu Egbunike and Dominic Burbidge. When to be silent is to speak Stephen Meili examines the contrasting UK and US treatment of people who refuse to declare a political allegiance. When does hate speech become dangerous speech? Consider Kenya and Rwanda The forthcoming trial of Kenyan broadcaster Joshua Arap Sang poses vital questions about the connections between words and violence, argues Katherine Bruce-Lockhart. “If you rattle a snake…” The Kenyan government bites its media In 2006 the Kenyan police violently raided the offices and printing press of the Standard Group media organisation. What was the government afraid of seeing reported? Dominic Burbidge explores a revealing case. Why Rwanda and Libya need free speech – and media regulation Jerry Timmins describes a new report on media in two post-conflict societies, and argues that countries like Britain should do more to support them. Free but not able? Literacy is the fundamental building block for any society of free speech, evidenced not just in grand statistics but in the lives of those most in need. Dominic Burbidge reports. How Ushahidi maps the voices of those in need Dominic Burbidge discusses how Ushahidi’s transformative crowdsourcing techniques have alleviated crises in Kenya and beyond. Zambia’s secret freedom of information bill If a decade of stalled attempts to enact Zambia’s Freedom of Information bill seems comical, there is underlying tragedy in how politicians have fallen short of their free speech rhetoric, writes Dominic Burbidge. How ‘brown envelope journalism’ holds back sub-Saharan Africa Dominic Burbidge explores the corrupt links between political elites and mainstream media that suffocate genuine democratic debate in Africa. ―ズマと彼の「やり」― 南アフリカの美術館が、ジェイコブ・ズマ大統領の露骨な肖像画を、アフリカ国会からの命令で撤去した。著者：ニミ・ホフマン (Nimi Hoffman) 、マリアーム・オミーディ (Maryam Omidi) Africa: media and free speech “People in Africa don’t have the freedom to speak freely and hold governments accountable,” says Nqobile Sibisi of Highway Africa’s Future Journalists Programme. Frontline SMS: How can mobile technology be used to help social change across Africa? Amy O’Donnell explains how she’s using text messages to help African radio stations engage their listeners on important political issues. Is China actually helping free media in Africa? China may provide censorship tools to autocratic regimes in Africa, but western companies still dominate this market, writes Iginio Gagliardone, a post-doctoral fellow at Oxford University.
The internet alone will not set Africa free Iginio Gagliardone explores the surprising technopolitics of two competing visions of the internet, US and Chinese, in Ethiopia.
Attacked, threatened and criminalised: LGBTI freedom of speech in Nigeria Jude Dibia explores the criminalisation and violence faced by the LGBTI community after the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act.
For all that is changing, free speech is still ‘under siege’ in Nigeria Bill Snaddon discusses political reform in Nigeria and the prosecution of the killers of Nigerian writers and journalists.
How an attempt at ‘libel tourism’ rebounded on a Tanzanian tycoon A British citizen blogged about a Tanzanian media magnate involved in throwing her and her husband off their Tanzanian farm. He sued for libel in a British court. Dominic Burbidge explains.
Why ramp up internet surveillance in Nigeria? The Nigerian government is rumoured to have sealed a $40m dollar contract for internet surveillance technology. There is no clear justification for this “secret” deal, and no assurance that the technology would be used fairly, given Nigeria’s lack of established rights for citizen privacy. By Nwachukwu Egbunike and Dominic Burbidge.
When to be silent is to speak Stephen Meili examines the contrasting UK and US treatment of people who refuse to declare a political allegiance.
When does hate speech become dangerous speech? Consider Kenya and Rwanda The forthcoming trial of Kenyan broadcaster Joshua Arap Sang poses vital questions about the connections between words and violence, argues Katherine Bruce-Lockhart.
“If you rattle a snake…” The Kenyan government bites its media In 2006 the Kenyan police violently raided the offices and printing press of the Standard Group media organisation. What was the government afraid of seeing reported? Dominic Burbidge explores a revealing case.
Why Rwanda and Libya need free speech – and media regulation Jerry Timmins describes a new report on media in two post-conflict societies, and argues that countries like Britain should do more to support them.
Free but not able? Literacy is the fundamental building block for any society of free speech, evidenced not just in grand statistics but in the lives of those most in need. Dominic Burbidge reports.
How Ushahidi maps the voices of those in need Dominic Burbidge discusses how Ushahidi’s transformative crowdsourcing techniques have alleviated crises in Kenya and beyond.
Zambia’s secret freedom of information bill If a decade of stalled attempts to enact Zambia’s Freedom of Information bill seems comical, there is underlying tragedy in how politicians have fallen short of their free speech rhetoric, writes Dominic Burbidge.
How ‘brown envelope journalism’ holds back sub-Saharan Africa Dominic Burbidge explores the corrupt links between political elites and mainstream media that suffocate genuine democratic debate in Africa.
―ズマと彼の「やり」― 南アフリカの美術館が、ジェイコブ・ズマ大統領の露骨な肖像画を、アフリカ国会からの命令で撤去した。著者：ニミ・ホフマン (Nimi Hoffman) 、マリアーム・オミーディ (Maryam Omidi)
Africa: media and free speech “People in Africa don’t have the freedom to speak freely and hold governments accountable,” says Nqobile Sibisi of Highway Africa’s Future Journalists Programme.
Frontline SMS: How can mobile technology be used to help social change across Africa? Amy O’Donnell explains how she’s using text messages to help African radio stations engage their listeners on important political issues.
Is China actually helping free media in Africa? China may provide censorship tools to autocratic regimes in Africa, but western companies still dominate this market, writes Iginio Gagliardone, a post-doctoral fellow at Oxford University.
