Weekly Readings: Off-Grid
BY Antonella Napolitano and Rebecca Chao | Monday, April 28 2014
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Anonymous launches AirChat, a tool that allows activists to communicate off the grid -- sans phone or Internet -- through radio.(h/t Carola Frediani)
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In China, the government mouthpiece, People's Daily, engaged in an online battle with the parody channel, @relevantorgans, claiming the channel is violating Twitter's rules.
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In the Atlantic, writer Dayo Olopade writes about Africa and mobile banking, "How did a continent still struggling to guarantee clean water and reliable electricity beat Silicon Valley to this groundbreaking mobile solution?"
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Several independent journalists and bloggers, who have been critical of the government, were arrested in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Former American Diplomat Rebecca Vincent writes that bloggers in Aberzaijan are facing increased levels of intimidation, violence, and imprisonment.
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The first open data hackathon in Indonesia took place in Jakarta over the weekend. UN GlobalPulse speaks to the organizer of #HackJak.
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Danny O'Brien, the international organizer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, explains why Iran's revolutionary guard attacked Iran's tech bloggers.
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In Macedonia, an allegation that the Prime Minister was involved in an illegal banking deal, goes ignored in the media because of the culture of censorship in the country. A group of activists is trying to change this via social media.
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