Communicating in a networked world
Looks like the search engines google.cn and yahoo.cn have gotten even more aggressive in terms of blocking access to “unauthorized” or “illegal” sources of information for Chinese-language searchers. Most of the recent attention on the Chinese censorship issue has been focused on Google.cn, but it turns out that Yahoo.cn may be even more in tune with the Chinese party line!
See this report from Reporters Without Borders entitled Yahoo! clear worst offender in censorship tests on search engines.
The railroad will open up access to Tibet in ways we cannot predict. CNN has an interesting and long article on the railway to Tibet, and there are many others online. We know that the “Tibetan way of life” will become a thing of the past, and will uniquely adapt to contact with China and the rest of the world, but many things will survive. The discussion of what will survive has only begun.
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The Tibetan Technology Center (TibTec) announced that it will host the Air Jaldi Summit on wireless technologies in Dharamsala, India in October 2006. This will be an international gathering of experts and “learners” where the latest in community-based wireless will be discussed and showcased. (Press Release)
Can a computer game teach how to fight real-world adversaries—dictators, military occupiers and corrupt rulers, using methods that have succeeded in actual conflicts—not with laser rays or AK47s, but with non-military strategies and nonviolent weapons?
A fellow traveler has written a great story about the Dharamsala mesh, which has now been published in a mag in the UK.
In The Mesh Becomes Reality I wrote up my impressions in October, 2005. The “Father of the Dharamsala Mesh,” Yahel Ben-David, has just returned to Dharamsala and is working on “what’s next” for the mesh right now.