http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo What's on the minds of young leaders from around the globe? en-us http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731853 twitter.com

Twitter has allowed people around the world to communicate more effectively. Twitter has been responsible for communications in Iran and Moldava at a time when the governments there have been trying to clamp down on communications. Twitter has been aiding in communications during political protests, natural disasters such as the California and Australia wildfires and social movements providing activists a new means to communicate and organize online.]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:37:00 EDT http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731853 7.15 3.357.153.35 http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731851 democracyctr.org

For more than a decade our organization, the Democracy Center in Cochabamba, Bolivia, has pioneered the use of Internet communications to bring global attention to developing country issues that would otherwise be ignored. The most well-known of these was our use of the Internet to launch a global advocacy campaign that successfully forced the Bechtel Corporation to drop a $50 million legal case against the people of Bolivia following the Cochabamba Water Revolt. More than 300 organizations in 43 countries joined that effort, leading to Bechtel's settlement of the case in 2006 for thirty cents. Today, through a widely read Blog, on-line video, and other creative uses of Web technology, we are showing how the Internet can link activism in the global north and global south in powerful ways.]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:36:00 EDT http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731851 7.15 3.357.153.35 http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731847 katelundy.com.au

The Hon. Senator Kate Lundy MP is widely recognized as an Australian political pioneer in the use of the internet for Australian politics, being one of the first parliamentarians to launch (and manage her own) website and an early adopter of political blogging, wikis, online video and Twitter. She deserves recognition for the series of Public Sphere community forums she is currently running, which draw together virtual and physical forums in a series exploring the impact of the internet on Australian government. These events involve the use of online blog and wiki-based consultation, physical events that are simultaneously video streamed and liveblogged online, with supporting Twitter feeds. These events are opening the door for Australian politicians to more interactively engage online and generating interests at all levels of Australian politics and the public sector.]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:34:00 EDT http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731847 7.15 3.357.153.35 http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731841 Translated page

The Petrobras´ blog Fatos e Dados, is the most important thing that has happened to Brazil's people in recent years because provides a democratic real freedom - that was impossible with the traditional newspapers and TVs broadcast. Brazilian people feel hopeful that this blog Fatos e Dados has changed forever the face of the information we have from now on.]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:34:00 EDT http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731841 7.15 3.357.153.35 http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731833 pollitika.com

One of the earliest adopters of internet on Croatia is also founder of collaborative blog site pollitika.com. His 1st web site mrak.org in 2004 was awarded and still considered one of the most influential blogs in Croatia. His topics are economy, politics and media. In 2006 he founded blog site pollitika.com which is the largest politics oriented community in Croatia with members including present, former (and future) politicians, parliament members, judges, lawyers, NGO activists, academics journalists and interested citizens... Pollitika.com grew up to be central spot in Croatia for citizens politics, source of (usually) unpleasant information for the government and also a cradle for a number of initiatives.]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:30:00 EDT http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731833 7.15 3.357.153.35 http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731827 Search Iranian Protesters

With their courage and perseverance, as well as the ingenuity they have shown in their usage of social networking tools--they have truly "led the way in this revolution." The Iranians are blogging, posting to Facebook and, most visibly, coordinating their protests on Twitter. They use Twitter to organize and spread the word. Twitter had planned to go down for 90 minutes Monday for maintenance but was asked by State Dept to keep operating so the Iranian protesters can send out their messages after the crackdown on the traditional media by the Iranian govt.]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:29:00 EDT http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731827 7.15 3.357.153.35 http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731825 americanprogressaction.org/events/IAR.html

Alan Rosenblatt's Internet Advocacy Roundtable has been one of the key gatherings for spreading ideas and information about how the Internet is and can be used for advocacy to change the world. I consider this one of the original Washington DC meet-ups for political and social advocacy. Just reviewing the past events is a testament to this fact and I believe without this kind of work we all would be further behind in our collective knowledge.]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:28:00 EDT http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731825 7.15 3.357.153.35 http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731823 myspace.com/hellmuthattler

With his online campaign, only on YouTube, Hellmut Hattler draws attention towards the occupation of Palestine - and gets positive feedback from allover the world. Lots of artists and activists ask for projects that could be done together. Hellmut Hattler is a world-renowned bass guitarist from Germany (Kraan, Tab Two, Hattler). Some years ago he wrote an energetic song on the Israel/Palestine conflict, called "Assalamu Alaikum". During the Gaza war in winter 2008/2009, filmmakers Damian Léman and Thierry Miguet decided to make a film about the song for YouTube. The concert film focuses on Israel´s separation wall, as one symbol of the conflict. Now the band already received an invitation to play a concert in Palestine. Interestingly, a Middle East expert of the US government judged the song as being "out of the peace business". Journalist Max Blumenthal loved it, and Arab-American comedian Dean Obeidallah put it in a nutshell: "That is a great music video. It's good when art challenges people!"]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:27:00 EDT http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731823 7.15 3.357.153.35 http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731817 diplomacy.edu/ig/

DiploFoundation is the leading international organization in building an inclusive global Internet governance and policy environment. Diplo's capacity building programme consists of policy training, policy research and policy immersion. More than 1000 diplomats, officials and civil society representatives, mainly from small and developing countries have been involved in Diplo's capacity development activities. Today, it is difficult to find Internet governance and policy boides (ICANN, IGF, LACNIC, AfroNIC) without an active participation of Diplo's former students. One of the main contributions of Diplo to the global community is awareness-building, both on specific Internet governance issues and on the need for inclusive Internet governance.]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:25:00 EDT http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731817 7.15 3.357.153.35 http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731815 egovau.blogspot.com

Craig Thomler authors eGov AU - Craig Thomler's personal eGovernment thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective blog - http://egovau.blogs pot.com/. He works for the Australian Government in the eGovernment area, developing online strategy and communications while managing the websites and intranet of the federal Department of Human Services (http://www.h umanservices.gov.au/) and Child Support Agency (http://www.csa.gov.au/) with the help of a great team. Craig has engaged the Australian Government web community with some great examples from within Australia and overseas of how they can provide better government service to Australian citizens using web 2.0 technologies.]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:24:00 EDT http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731815 7.15 3.357.153.35 http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731803 euprofiler.eu


Alexander Trechsel is the Project Developer of the EUProfiler. It is a Voting Advice Application (VAA) - an impartial tool designed to inform potential voters and other interested users about the political landscape in Europe ahead of the European Parliament elections in June 2009. We got 2.5 million Europeans on the EUProfiler, of which 900,000 have fully filled in everything and got their profiles. In the context of the European elections this is a huge success. The Profiler is offered in 24 languages and contains codes of party positions for almost 300 parties and on 30 proposals for each (roughly 9,000 documented positions).]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:16:00 EDT http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/731803 7.15 3.357.153.35 http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/473121 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:29:00 EDT http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/473121 7.15 3.357.153.35 http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/231267
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How many of you started walking the day you were born ? How
much do you know about NiRA ? What is it about comparing a
Nation that has failed over a hundred years to realize what
nationality means to a Nation within a Nation that is just
absorbing democracy and development in the Information
Technology ?

NiRA is just two years old...it got registered of recent with the Corporate Affairs and is willing to grow. Domain
registration is still free and still fine tunning itself for
stardom and all we can do is tear it apart with words ? I
believe we can do better than words of destructive analysis but constructive notions that should put us side by side with South Africa.

On this note, if you feel you understand how it should be run, the technology needed to sustain the domination and consistent stability of all domain, speak out ! We have a site that takes care of such complaints which i feel will further strengthen our backbone.

I am a youth...a member of the Nigeria iNTERNET Registration Association (NiRA), a true born of the west of of Africa and a citizen of Nigeria. Am Black and proud, what about you ?


Akinbo A. A. Cornestone
Continental Director, SCN-Africa,
Save Children Now.

www.savechildrennow.org
akinbo@savechildrennow.org
+2348064464545

http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/pscornerstone




The above was posted in reasponse to this concerned nigerians

who demands NiRA must function by international standards. It

is well.

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1. Yomi Adegboye
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http://www.yomisays.com/?p=390


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2. David Ajao
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http://www.davidajao.com/blog/2007/06/27/nigerian-cctld-somethi

ng-wrong/]]> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:59:00 EDT http://www.tigblog.org/group/tnakinbo/post/231267 7.15 3.357.153.35