Be inspried. Sami Ben Gharbia, outgoing editor of Global Voices Advocacy addressed the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Conference on 20 July 2012.
He spoke about the role of digital activism in the 2010 Tunisian revolution and the Arab spring. He shared some of the strategies used to expose government corruption and nepotism and to combat its censorship, both online and offline.
In addition he touched on the involvement of Wikileaks and Anonymous in assisting the campaign.
Professor Sarah Joseph, Director of Monash University’s Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, chaired the question time that follows the presentation.
Sami was also interviewed on Friday night’s Lateline. The video and transcript are here: Tunisian campaigner discusses online uprising
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Thank you for this post, Kevin. I look forward to some reading and viewing later in the day.
That was an excellent post today. Thanks so much for sharing it. I really enjoyed reading it very much. Have a great day.
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Writing Jobs is a spam bot methinks Min. It’s the second identical post made, so don’t click on the link.
Mobius, indeed it is a sneaky spammer..at least it’s better than looking at the spam for penis enlargers..sort of…
On Kevin’s link..
I cannot help but think how insular Australia has become in recent times, that we know so little about what is happening in the world around us.
Another thought is the reference to the social media. This is something which has been happening, that in spite of all the cr*ppy stuff on FB especially, that this is a medium which enables people let the rest of the world know what is happening.
No longer can tyrants seal the borders thinking that no information will escape.
Min said, “No longer can tyrants seal the borders thinking that no information will escape.”……. except in Australia with the MSM at the bidding of that Tired-rant Tony Abbortt…. 😀
LOVO, I can’t argue that Abbott wants an information free society. Next will come the burning of the books.
One would hope that it will be Abbortts “Battlelines”
They’d have to retrieve them from the dump first. 😆
Migs, he won’t burn 50 shades of grey, he is reading it as a guide to policy direction, so the he can find bigger and better ways to screw us all!
Plus his 25 copies of the Bible and 15 copies of Little Johnnies’ book.
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