President's anger causes YouTube block in Pakistan

Islamabad, February 08, 2010: Bytes for All and its members in Pakistan vehemently condemn Government's block on YouTube and consider it yet another attack on civil liberties and free speech in the country.

Pakistan Blocks Youtube Again

Details of the event on this link: http://teeth.com.pk/blog/2010/02/08/pta-blocks-zardaris-shut-up-video

The Saga is President saying Shut Up to the audience in his speech :)

...but attached screen shot shows that following URL is still blocked from Pakistan. Can someone access and inform that it is the video of Pakistani President saying Shut Up to some audience in his speech?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzuHD5x1fEU

If it is so... very interesting it is ;)

ONI Releases 2009 Year in Review

The OpenNet Initiative is happy to announce the release of 2009 Year in Review: a summary of global events related to Internet filtering, surveillance, and information warfare. http://opennet.net/about-filtering/2009yearinreview/#

Multi-stakeholder inclusive ICT Policy Process urged to combat violence against women in cyberspace

Lahore – 30 January 2010 – With the goal to create awareness about Information and Communication Technologies and Violence Against Women in cyber space, and the implications of various government policies on women, a seminar titled “ICTs and Violence Against Women - Policy Implications” was jointly organized by Bytes for All (B4A) and the Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT & ITES (P@SHA) on 30 January 2010 in Lahore.

Save Mediact: Media and democracy in South Korea

The world has watched as South Korea has moved from dictatorship toward democracy, over the last half a century at great cost. However, democracy, including incredible advances made in the culture and media sectors, has suffered serious damage in South Korea under the Lee Myung-bak regime.

International Privacy Day - January 28

January 28 is International Privacy Day, the day that the first international convention for privacy was signed. Many groups around the world are celebrating this day. As supporters of the Madrid Declaration, we are calling on national governments to ratify the Privacy Convention 108.

Stop Digital Strip Search in airports!

As supporters of the Madrid Declaration, we are calling on national governments to suspend the deployment of body scanners until a full evaluation of the technology is completed. As the Declaration states, we:

Call for a moratorium on the development or implementation of new systems of mass surveillance, including facial recognition, whole body imaging, biometric identifiers, and embedded RFID tags, subject to a full and transparent evaluation by independent authorities and democratic debate;

TAKE BACK THE TECH! 16 Days of Activism against Violence against Women

From 25 November to 10 December, get ready to click your mouse, flex your SMS fingers and engage full energy to take control of technology to end violence against women.

APC's Women's Programme calls on users of the radio, television, internet, emails and mobile phones to Take Back the Tech!

Nastalique and other complex Asian fonts on the mobile platform

CRULP (www.crulp.org) announces successful deployment of open source Pango rendering engine onto Symbian mobile development platform.

This engine allows rendering of complex Asian writing systems through Open Type fonts. Please visit http://www.crulp.org/research/Project-Details/ALSMP.htm for some details.

Madrid Declaration: Global Privacy Standards for a Global World

Affirming that privacy is a fundamental human right set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other human rights instruments and national constitutions;

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