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The uses and abuses of fighting extremism on RuNet
The Internet is becoming ever more accessible in Russia, offering unlimited possibilities for the distribution of every kind of content. Cyberspace is also censored very minimally. This gives everyone...
View ArticleKremlin tells top officials to tone down their tweets
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for establishing a new set of rules for Russian officials when they use social network websites, RIA Novosti reports. The statement came after a news report...
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Post-IGF results from Baku
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2012 finished in Baku and many results have come to reality. The forum included all kind of meetings about the Internet and included topics ranging from the...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan MP seeks ban on “SMS divorces”
Turushnbai Bakir-Uulu, a member of the Kyrgyz Parliament, has called for the country’s grand mufti to ban “SMS divorce,” Radio Free Europe reports. In the Sunni Muslim tradition, a man can say “talaq”...
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Estonia decodes IT future
The European Union launched an information technology agency in Estonia last Saturday, just months after the Baltic country announced it would begin teaching computer programming to first-graders. For...
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New Russian website sets targets on apartment repairs
After struggling to coalesce the increasingly targeted Russian opposition movement, anti-corruption activist Aleksei Navalny has launched a website to tap into public frustration over poor conditions...
View ArticleLooking East: The Russian example of volunteerism for Belarus
Social participation is something that works for Russia sometimes as well as in the West. Or at least, OK, better than it does in Belarus. We Belarusians dream about seeing more voluntary engagement of...
View ArticleCritics question neutrality of Kazakh Wikipedia
Ties between the Kazakhstani government and WikiBilim, the NGO founded to promote the expansion of the Kazakh-language version of Wikipedia, have prompted critics of the online encyclopedia to accuse...
View ArticleGeorgia places high for net freedom, but some problems remain
Georgia’s Internet is generally free from government censorship, the newly published Transparency International Georgia’s report says. Last year, there was not a single case reported of websites...
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Bridging the digital divide (one Central Asian language at a time)
The localization of Skype into the Kyrgyz language in 2011 has been the first step to opening the world’s most popular messenger to the people who do not – surprise, surprise – speak Russian or...
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Fearing good fortune, Estonia crowd-sources ideas
Worried that success might spoil Estonia, its leader has reached out to citizens to tell the government what it should do to satisfy their fast-evolving desires, Estonian Public Broadcasting reports....
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Social Media in the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
Social media have become one of the few places where young people from Armenia and Azerbaijan can meet. Yet, not without risks While it might be nearly 19 years since a May 1994 ceasefire put the...
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Latvia whizzes in as Wi-Fi wonderland
Estonians often boast that free wireless Internet access is available throughout their country — even in remote forests and along deserted beaches. And now neighboring Latvia will be able to tout the...
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Georgian authorities reassure Christians about use of digital IDs
Rumors that electronic ID cards carry hidden satanic symbols have swirled in Georgia since the cards were introduced in 2011. Efforts by the Georgian Orthodox Church to quash the story, even a ruling...
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Dimon Don’t Cry
The Russian Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, doesn’t like his online nickname “Dimon,” but whatever we think of Dimon’s playground problems how does one stand up to online bullies? And why are so many...
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Kazakhstan in the dark over TV digitization
While digital media use continues to grow in Kazakhstan, its citizens are being kept in the dark on the digitization of broadcast TV, according to Open Society Foundation. And while the number of...
View ArticleRussia’s Internet party
Does Russia’s online community have anything resembling a common philosophy? New analysis of social media suggests the only idea shared right across the political spectrum is xenophobia. Emile Pain...
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Tragedy ignites online friendship between Romanians and Montenegrins
In one of the most tragic road accidents ever seen in Montenegro, 18 Romanian nationals lost their lives and 29 were injured on June 23, 2013 when a Romanian bus full of tourists ran off the Grlo...
View ArticleIT guys pinpoint exact location of Spamalot
Belarus has grabbed the dubious honor of being the biggest worldwide source of spam per capita, according to the BBC. Data from the Cloudmark security firm flagged 27 percent of Belarusian IP addresses...
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Picturing a budget, one color at a time
An independent think tank in Moldova is trying to start debate about public money, and they are hoping to spark it with some very pretty pictures. Without specialization, looking at raw data figures...
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