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A multimedia newsroom for the future takes shape in Georgia

A multimedia newsroom for the future takes shape in Georgia
Georgia
Feb 9, 2012
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A new newsroom opening soon in Tbilisi will allow students a chance to have hands-on experience with their future. Read More »

New Media project to tackle corruption in Moldova

New Media project to tackle corruption in Moldova
Moldova
Feb 8, 2012
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For a two-day period, 25 young people from Moldova came together to generate ideas for social projects that could be implemented through new media. Read More »

New copyright law could paralyze Kazakh NGOs

New copyright law could paralyze Kazakh NGOs
Kazakhstan
Feb 8, 2012
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As if following in the steps of the USA and Europe, which are now battling over copyright laws like SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA, Kazakhstan has enacted changes to their existing copyright protection acts--changes which will no doubt have a significant impact on the way information is spread over the Kaznet. Read More »

Cold feet for ACTA in Central Europe

Cold feet for ACTA in Central Europe
Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia
Feb 7, 2012
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The Czech and Slovak governments announced on 6 February that they are halting the ratification process for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, an international anti-piracy pact that has attracted increasing controversy over the past few weeks. Read More »

Azerbaijan gets first text-to-speech system

Azerbaijan gets first text-to-speech system
Azerbaijan
Feb 6, 2012
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Dilmanc, which means "interpreter" in Azerbaijani, is an online project to convert text to speech. Anyone can test it via its website and listen to a male voice read the text. It also allows users to download the spoken text in mp3 format. Read More »

Romanian startup Summify bought by Twitter

Romanian startup Summify bought by Twitter
Romania
Feb 1, 2012
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The web-based startup Summify, created by two Romanians, has been bought up by Twitter, according to Romania Insider.  Summify announced the news on their blog last week and said they were relocating to Twitter's offices in San Francisco from their current base in Vancouver. Read More »

Koobface unmasked: A modern Bulgarian detective story

Koobface unmasked: A modern Bulgarian detective story
Bulgaria, Russia
Jan 31, 2012
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There's not a lot of good detective stories in the world these days. Whether in real life or in the movies, they seem to have been overshadowed by car chases, explosions and government-wide conspiracy stories. Read More »

In Moldova sharing is caring, literally

In Moldova sharing is caring, literally
Moldova
Jan 30, 2012
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Facebook pages do not just make the world smaller, but bring local communities closer especially if pages start from a simple idea and are not commercial. Read More »

Internet usage in Georgia

Internet usage in Georgia
Georgia
Jan 30, 2012
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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 »

Internet removes the cover of anonymity for Belarus KGB

Internet removes the cover of anonymity for Belarus KGB
Belarus
Jan 29, 2012
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Users of BY-net (a short name for the Belarusian segment of the Internet) have identified a KGB functionary who had been recruiting activists who participated in the silent demonstrations. A man in the photo leaked to Belarusian social networks has been identified rather quickly as Raman Savuchin. Charter97.org reports that this officer was working along with Dzmitry Kalamijec, an officer who became famous in the BY-net after his photos surfaced showing him recruiting Maks Carniauski, one of the prominent activists from the silent demonstrations . Read More »

Fast digitization of TV could create problems for Bakuvians

Fast digitization of TV could create problems for Bakuvians
Azerbaijan
Jan 28, 2012
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The recent announcement of changes in television broadcasting has not been advertised among the population of Azerbaijan even though it will affect everybody. The Ministry of Communications and İnformation Technology have made the decision on to stop  analogue terrestial broadcasting in Baku and the Absheron peninsula, but very few people know about this.  Read More »

Online gambling a problem in Georgia

Online gambling a problem in Georgia
Georgia
Jan 28, 2012
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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

Thousands of Poles march against the possibility of Internet censorship

Thousands of Poles march against the possibility of Internet censorship
Poland
Jan 27, 2012
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Last week, it was SOPA and a blacked-out Wikipedia, amid a wave of Internet protests against controversial U.S. legislation to stop online piracy. This week, the acronym is ACTA, with more than 10,000 people marching in the streets of Poland’s cities against an anti-counterfeiting treaty that they say will lead to Internet censorship. Read More »

Azerbaijani Eurovision website still not ready

Azerbaijani Eurovision website still not ready
Azerbaijan
Jan 23, 2012
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While the whole country is buzzing about the coming Eurovision song contest in May, the website for it is not prepared yet. Read More »
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