GV Sudan: Checking in with Sudan Vote Monitor
My next post is up at Global Voices Online: On the eve of Sudan's 2010 presidential elections, I interviewed Fareed Zein, who heads the citizen election monitoring project Sudan Vote Monitor, for the...
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Tech for Transparency, v2
Today we officially launched the second phase of the Technology for Transparency Network, a Rising Voices project that documents and maps projects around the world that use online technology to promote...
View ArticleGV Uganda: Bloggers react to bomb blasts
More than three years ago, I wrote about why I opposed sending Ugandan troops to Somalia. At the time, I noted that “insurgents have ‘vowed to kill the incoming peacekeepers’ and have been launching...
View ArticleTech for Transparency: New Interviews Posted
Avid readers of my blog (here’s looking at you, Rev) may remember that several months ago I announced that research was beginning for the second phase of the Technology for Transparency Network. The...
View ArticleGV Uganda: Gay Rights Activist Found Murdered
This is heartbreaking. My thoughts are with David’s friends and family, and with the Ugandan GLBT community as a whole. Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato was found murdered yesterday, just weeks...
View ArticleGlobal Voices Uganda: Bloggers Apprehensive as Voters Go to the Polls
Unfortunately, the cautious optimism surrounding Uganda’s elections on Friday seems to be more “optimism that Kampala won’t break out in riots” rather than “optimism that corruption might not prevail.”...
View ArticleThoughts from the Al Jazeera Forum
I’m spending this weekend at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, where I was asked to participate in a seminar on the role of the blogosphere in bringing social and political change. The question posed to us...
View ArticleGlobal Voices Uganda: #walk2work Arrests Spur Hunger Strike, Future Protests
Twitter’s abuzz with news of the #walk2work protests staged by Ugandan opposition leaders Kizza Besigye and Norbert Mao on Monday. Ndesanjo Macha’s round up of tweets provides an excellent overview; my...
View ArticleGlobal Voices Uganda: Government Attempts to Block Facebook, Twitter as...
I posted about this yesterday, but I just put together a longer piece for Global Voices in which I’ve tried to give a bit more context for the protests: As opposition politicians and others angry over...
View ArticleGV Uganda: Can a Viral Video Really #StopKony?
I’ve taken a (too long) hiatus from writing for Global Voices, but the flood of responses to Invisible Children’s new Kony 2012 film has me back: A film aimed at making Joseph Kony—a Ugandan guerilla...
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