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	<description>Keywords: citizen media, digital communication, ict and cooperation with developing countries. Focus on Central Asia and the Middle East.</description>
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		<title>Tashkent: spacy or spacious</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The suprise starts at Tashkent International Airport (Yuzhniy). It is way too big considering the amount of users. The first few days in Uzbekistan &#8211; we started last week in Nukus, West Uzbekistan &#8211; I thought: wow, impressive building or square but where are the people? But then it starts to look familiar. My first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=436&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solomon&#8217;s throne (4)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sulamain-Too Sacred Mountain &#8211; in popular speech Solomon&#8217;s throne &#8211; of Kyrgyzstan will become Kyrgystan&#8217;s first site to be inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
Read more in Elena&#8217;s article on NewEurasia
Also read my earlier posts about this tiny but much discussed mountain hill
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		<title>Kazakhtan&#8217;s internet is closing down</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kazakhstan is known for being &#8216;not free&#8217; according to reports of Reporters sans frontiers and the FreedomHouse. But protests continue. Last week for example journalists held a silent protest in Almaty, former capital of Kazakhstan. More details on the redesigned Neweurasianet.
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		<title>Making of the Modern World</title>
		<link>http://digitalsketches.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/making-of-the-modern-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. Jack Weatherford is the author of Genghis Khan, and the making of the modern world did not want to write a autobiography of Khan or a book about the Mongols. He rather wanted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=414&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The shadow of the Holy Book (III)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The documentary film Shadow of the Holy Book reveals the secretive and repressive dictatorship of Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan&#8217;s head of state from 1985 to 2006, and the Western companies who did business with him.
Listen to  the discussion about the film held at the OSI office New York in February.
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		<title>Barcamper&#8217;s favourite tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I attended the Barcamp in Almaty.  Again it was a lively and informal gathering of enthusiastic digital natives from all over Central Asia.  On this videoclip (6.30 min.) some of them share the digital tools they use most and probable also love most.
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		<title>New tools are not scary</title>
		<link>http://digitalsketches.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/new-media-and-new-comers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday late afternoon I spent some time with friends at cafe Maxwell, one of the many nice pubs in my quarter. Winding down from a busy week and looking forward to  the long Easter weekend ahead. The sun was shining and the beer was tasty. The conversation took a spin after I mentioned a interesting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=359&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Head Wind</title>
		<link>http://digitalsketches.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/head-wind/</link>
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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>You will get the media you deserve (Dutch)</title>
		<link>http://digitalsketches.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/we-get-the-media-we-deserve-dutch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Je kunt uitgaan van de vraag: hoe kunnen professionele media overleven in deze digitale tijden? Hoe moeten media &#8211; en kranten in het bijzonder &#8211; hun productiekosten en inkomstenstroom opnieuw vormgeven? Hoe kunnen bloggers en andere on line media inkomen genereren? Hoe een mediabedrijf te starten en financieren, gebaseerd op bijdragen van het publiek?
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		<title>PBwiki on the move</title>
		<link>http://digitalsketches.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/pbwiki/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Making a wiki is as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich&#8217;, is the slogan of the company PBwiki. This week founder David Weekly visited an ICCO meeting as a keynote speaker. The Peanut Butter metaphor will not last much longer because in a few months time this name will be changed. Better integration in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=342&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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