the leaflet inserted with my morning paper caught my eyes: an announcement of a missing cat, a reward of 5000 taka, a picture and description of the sweet little black cat so sorely missed by a child. my mind went back to 2004 when me, jana and espen had started playing with the idea of a social media for local communities: the case of a missing cat was something we used to explain our vision for how social...
here is the full text of the kathmandu statement that i and somewhere in... is a signatory to, a commitment to work for giving everyone a free voice, also online:
We, participants in the South Asian Meeting on the Internet and Freedom of Expression, having met in Kathmandu, Nepal, on 2-4 November 2011 to deliberate on the state of freedom of expression in our region in the digital age,...
we here at somewhere in... have done a lot of work for ensuring freedom of expression on the internet since 2005, not the least by facilitating more than 100 000 blogs to be setup. still this work is just at its early stage, as 95% of the bangladesh population are still to get on the internet. freedom of expression should never be taken for granted. today we have it, tomorrow we may not. if we want...
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