Full Coverage: Internet

24.10.2009 Hundreds of activist organisations had their internet service turned off after the US Chamber of Commerce strong-armed an upstream provider to pull the plug on The Yes Men.

18.10.2009 GuidesWeek completes its first anniversary next week. Chris Blattman has some encouraging reflections on his first two years.

16.09.2009 Winston the carrier pigeon delivered a packet of data 60 miles in a faster time than South Africa's flagship ADSL service. BBC News

16.09.2009 Visual depiction of Africa's exclusion from the global economy in maps of trade patterns and internet connectivity. Aid Watch

02.08.2009 Great spoof dialogue as world leaders make friends with each other on Facebook. Global Dashboard

19.07.2009 If you're a student blogger, remember that a prospective employer might just take a look. Global Health

06.07.2009 Arianna Huffington debates the tricky question of financial models for online news providers. She has no time for the subscription model. Guardian

15.06.2009 School textbooks are history, says Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's good news for publishers such as OneWorld but do youngsters have adequate concentration spans in the online environment?

04.05.2009 Liu Xiaobo has been detained without trial since last December. Here he compares life as a dissident in Beijing before and after the arrival of the internet. The Times

13.03.2009 Twelve "Enemies of the Internet" - Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam - have transformed their Internet into an Intranet in order to prevent their population from accessing 'undesirable' online information,” says a new report.
+ handed to “Internet Enemy” embassies

18.01.2009 The Sri Lankan government may be winning a shooting war with the Tamil Tigers but its despicable elimination of those who wield the pen plumbed new depths this week. Time.com

18.01.2009 We tend to assume that surfing the internet is the ultimate in low carbon entertainment. It's not that simple as this October article from Green Futures explains.

09.12.2008 Join the discussion in Poznan via OneWorld's "Virtual Poznan", which takes you inside the conference hall each day this week.

05.05.2008 FREE FM, a community radio meant for prisoners in Jamaica, is now available to anyone interested in listening to it from anywhere in the world. Launched in June 2007 by UNESCO, Canadian International Development Agency and others, it was meant to encourage rehabilitation and education of prisoners.

05.05.2008 Celebrating 15 years of its creation, World Wide Web’s inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee believes that the technology is still in a nascent stage. However, as a result of various international collaborations, the Web would be of great help in managing the planet.

30.04.2008 Telecentres can serve as an important source of information by connecting citizens with the government. A growing trend of commercialisation is however treating such entitlements as services and citizens as customers who pay service charges, writes research associate Vivek Vaidyanathan.

24.04.2008 IBM is toying with the idea of providing information to rural users on toll-free numbers. Its pilot project in southern India will provide information on healthcare services, small businesses and micro-finance. Once successful, it will be taken to international markets.

21.04.2008 Long predicted to replace traditional book or newspaper pulp, e-paper is not yet printing money, but tech firms hope its popularity may eventually mimic the real thing. Watch the video report inside.

21.04.2008 A non-profit media project is organising Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 in Budapest, Hungary on June 27-28, 2008. The event will highlight the contribution of diverse voices like bloggers, activists and journalists in global information dissemination.

18.04.2008 Building on the popular culture of blogging, BBC’s ZigZagmag.net has created an interactive online space to enable aspiring Iranian journalists generate high quality content for a variety of BBC platforms. The virtual newsroom encourages learning and communication through discussions and training.