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		<title>IGF banner incident</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year topics on the agenda of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) &#8211; in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt &#8211; are amongst others managing critical Internet resources, security, openness, privacy, access and diversity. On Sunday in their opening talks both the Egyptian Prime Minister and the Minister of Telecommunication were stressing especially the economic opportunities internet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=440&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Head Wind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Iranian documentary Head Wind about satellite television and internet access was shown at the Amnesty filmfestival Movies That Matter. Despite the fact free access is difficult &#8211; though not impossible &#8211; Head Wind is a lively film with lots of humour.
Interesting to do the Q&#38;A with Kamran Ashtary.
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		<title>Waltz with Bashir</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night we viewed this animation documentary in Rialto, a cosy and pleasant cinema in our neighbourhood. I can be short: Waltz with Bashir is impressive. The combination of documentary and animation is a very effective way to visualize personal experiences, in this case in war situations. The film is situated in Libanon. Although it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=267&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global Voices Summit 08 Budapest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 200 bloggers, activists, technologists and journalists of around the world &#8211; most of them contributors to Global Voices Online &#8211; travelled to Budapest the last weekend of June.
The GV Citizen Media Summit 2008 brought them together for two days of public discussions and workshops. It was a wonderful, energetic, diverse and fascinating gathering. Light-hearted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=107&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran: Lamb or Lion?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of her most amazing memories of Tehran is about a circus where she saw a lady with a purple chador riding in circles on a horse. Carolien Roelants, a journalist for the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad, has made so many trips to Iran that she stopped counting them.

Although she doesn’t speak Farsi, she tries [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=101&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Human</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 18:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking through Amsterdam gives one time to chew on thoughts and experiences. Wednesday evening I was walking back home from the De Balie, a centre for culture and politics, located at Leidseplein. I had attended the presentation of the book The Engineerable News (Het Maakbare Nieuws)’. The anthology comprises twelve essays written by twelve Dutch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=98&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arabic spring</title>
		<link>http://digitalsketches.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/dreaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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The presentation of ‘Dromen van een Arabische lente’ van Petra Stienen was almost finished. I arrived too late and only could enjoy the applause. Luckily the publisher is rather forward looking. An interviewer and cameraman have registered quite a lot; they kept on interviewing and filming the guests until the end of the party. You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=80&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘I love to miss Istanbul’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Dutch essayist Bas Heijne noticed the Turkish writer Elif Shafak is not interested in boundaries. She detests to be pinned down, Heijne writes in the introduction to the Winternachten Lecture 2008 `The writer as a commuter’. Shafak regards Istanbul as her home base, but cherishes it most when she is not there.
Shafak shared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=69&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in between</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Today I was at the viewing of &#8216;Liefde bestaat&#8217;, a documentary of Farshad Aria about seven artists who made a memorial for asylum-seekers who passed away in an asylum centre in Holland. All seven are buried at a cemetery in the remotely located Sint Annaparochie (Friesland) because this is the cheapest place to bury somebody. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=63&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dick Scherpenzeelprijs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Again a talking head on a big screen. One of the award winners of the Dick Scherpenzeelprijs 2006, was not in Holland. Joris Luyendijk said thank you for the prize via camera from his location  in Suriname. In between he joked a lot with Stephen Sanders, the host of the afternoon. Sanders is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=61&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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