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		<title>Speak softly and carry a USB stick</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Western governments are investing millions to keep human rights activists online in countries like Syria, Iran and China. They&#8217;re giving citizen journalists the technology to skirt the surveillance and disruption of data traffic by repressive regimes. But despite this aid, Europe and the US are accused of hypocrisy on internet freedom.&#8217; You can read the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1127870&amp;post=687&amp;subd=digitalsketches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Connecting people&#8217; Nokia billboard in Damascus (March 2011)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After two months of traveling I arrived at home base again. Stories are in progress but have a look here for a photo impression of my last weeks in Lebanon.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1127870&amp;post=646&amp;subd=digitalsketches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drink and think in Dahab</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I extended my stay in Dahab, a laid back beach village on the Gulf of Aqaba. What keeps me here? Is it the diving and surfing? The intriguing blond Russian single mothers strolling up and down the boulevard? No, it is fresh grilled fish, cold Stella, good coffee (have seen some excellent espresso machines), the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1127870&amp;post=633&amp;subd=digitalsketches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cairo in snap shots</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We start the day with a visit to Dahshur (Red and Bent Pyramid), have a coffee in Islamic Quarter, visit the Townhouse Gallery, enjoy diner and second beer in Cafe Riche, have a coffee in the posh hotel in Al Azhar Park, visit the theatre El Genaina for an wonderful performance of Donia Massoud, have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1127870&amp;post=637&amp;subd=digitalsketches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AB11, Tunis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Omhelzingen met vertrokken monden, waterige ogen. Het huilen lijkt velen nader dan het lachen bij binnenkomst van de Cite de Scienes in Tunis. ‘We were right. It was worth the risk. We did it.’ De meesten zien elkaar voor het eerst sinds de revoluties van het volk deze lente. Voor anderen is het een weerzien [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1127870&amp;post=626&amp;subd=digitalsketches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IGF kaasstolp in Nairobi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zet circa 2000 Internet activisten, techneuten, beleidsmakers en ondernemers vier dagen bij elkaar; en doe de deur op slot. Dat is wat het Internet Governance Forum (IGF) jaarlijks doet. Dit jaar had het IGF circus zijn tenten opgeslagen op het terrein van de United Nations in Nairobi. Het is absurd om een kleine week in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1127870&amp;post=620&amp;subd=digitalsketches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welke rol spelen media bij de gure Arabische lente in Syriė?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terwijl demonstraties in Tunesiė en Egypte hebben geleid tot het afzetten van de respectievelijke regimes, lijkt de Arabische Lente in Syriė tot een uiterst gewelddadige halt te komen, met inmiddels meer dan 1700 doden, waarvan het overgrote merendeel burgers. Buitenlandse media worden niet in Syriė toegelaten en nationale en lokale media maken vrijwel uitsluitend propaganda [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1127870&amp;post=616&amp;subd=digitalsketches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Billboard smartphone in Dam, March 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>When Internet is not a choice but the only option</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published on Hivos-Knowledge-Programme (ENG) Als internet geen keuze is maar enige optie ‘De discussie over de gevolgen van internet voor de democratie is nog niet afgelopen’. Met deze algemene conclusie gaat het opiniestuk ‘Internetsurveillance’ van Evgeny Morozov in NRC(15 January, 2011) uit als een nachtkaars. Zijn betoog keert zich tegen ‘internetapostelen’ die geloven dat van [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1127870&amp;post=576&amp;subd=digitalsketches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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