2011 - Internet rights and democratisation
2011 - Internet rights and democratisation
Argentina
Report Year
Themes
Sexuality and women’s rights
Organization
Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
Rights and the internet: Sexuality and women’s rights
Free Tag
Themes
Preface
Unlike any other medium, the internet enables individuals to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds instantaneously and inexpensively across national borders. Unlike any other technological development, it has created an interactive form of communication, which not only allows you to send information in one direction, but also to send information in many directions and receive an immediate response.
Themes
Introduction
Organization
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Early visionaries imagined the internet as a borderless world where the rule of law and the norms of the so-called physical world did not apply. Free expression and free association were envisioned as entitlements, a feature of cyberspace rather than rights to be asserted.
Themes
The internet and social movements in North Africa
Organization
Egyptian Blog for Human Rights
Creating free space
Many taboos and “red lines” are imposed on offline spaces like newspapers and TV channels in several states in North Africa, as well as many limits on freedom of expression and the right to assembly. It is not easy to establish a newspaper in Libya or a human rights organisation in Algeria or to call for a march in Bahrain.
Workers’ rights and the internet
Organization
LaborNet
Communication, solidarity and the internet: How the internet, information technology and new media are shaping the world working class
From textile factory workers at the Egyptian Mahalla textile plants, to Chinese workers in Honda factories, to Wisconsin public workers: social networks, the internet and new communications technologies are playing a critical role in linking up workers locally, nationally and internationally.
Free Tag
E-revolutions and cyber crackdowns: User-generated content and social networking in protests in MENA and beyond
Organization
Doctoral candidate, Department of Geography, Justus Liebig University Giessen
Introduction
The recent protests and uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt have both been called “Twitter revolutions” and “Facebook revolutions” due to the widespread use of user-generated content (UGC) disseminated over social networks like Facebook and Twitter by protesters, activists and supporters of the protests, as well as by those following the events around the globe. This report investigates the usage and role of UGC and social networking websites in the recent protests and uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), as well as other cases outside of the region.