The crowdfunding fad has now made its way to Georgia and seems to have some potential. Launched just a few weeks ago, borani.org already has almost 300 contributors funding 21 projects; together, they’ve pledged 9,193 GEL ($5,650). Read More »

Andro Dgebuadze is the most popular TEDxTbilisi presenter on YouTube. More than 3,200 people have viewed his talk, far outnumbering the other speakers hovering at 700. Read More »

Hundreds of posts demanding the withdrawal of Russian solders from Georgia’s breakaway regions on Russian president Dimitry Medvedev’s Facebook page were removed by the administrator, and Georgian users were blocked from accessing the site. Online activists, consisting of forum.ge users, wanted to express their position concerning Russian policy on Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Read More »

A new newsroom opening soon in Tbilisi will allow students a chance to have hands-on experience with their future. Read More »

Only two percent of internet users in Georgia run their own blogs or read other blogs, forty percent mainly connect internet for social networks, twenty percent use to learn news, Forty-five percent search information, – a result of survey carried out by the Caucasus Research Resource Centre (CRRC) in 2009 and 2011 following the order by Eurasia Partnership Foundation. Read More »

EurasiaNet posted a great article last week on Georgia and the increasingly serious problem of online gambling.  Already, the online gambling site Adjarabet.com is the second most visited website in the country.  The exact extent of the problem is unknown, according to the article, as Georgia does not issue licenses for online casinos.

Image courtesy Flickr user, Orin Zebest

On February 11, 2012, the event TEDxTbilisi, devoted to the ideas worth spreading, will take place at Tbilisi State University. The theme is “The Long View”.  The thirteen Georgian and foreigner speakers were chosen from different fields, ranging from science, music, art or diplomacy. Read More »

A video of Shalva Natelashvili protesting against President Mikheil Saakashvili’s politics in front of the White House in Washington, DC, has gone viral in Georgia. The video has become popular on Facebook.

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The website www.lit.ge recently launched the first electronic book shop in Georgia. The company provides the “Yota Reader” completely adapted to the Georgian language.

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He is the most popular Georgian on Facebook, and the number of his fans increased after a recent announcement by his billionaire father, Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgia’s richest man according to Forbes, with an estimated worth of $5.5billion. Ivanishvili declared that he would form a political party and take part in the 2012 parliamentary elections.

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Despite a dramatic increase over the past few years in the number of Georgian blogs, only a small percentage of the population knows what a blog actually is.

The results of a survey conducted by ACT, a market research and consulting company based in Georgia, indicated that 92.1% of the population do not know what a blog is. Read More »

This year, Georgia was mapped for the first time … on Google, that is. Due to efforts in Georgia, geographic detail is finally available on Google Map Maker, a service launched by Google in 2008 to open Google Maps to community collaborative effort, and will soon be available on Google Maps itself. Read More »

With their streets in disrepair, Tbilisi residents take to the Internet. Read More »