Fini la «hchouma», les tabous et l'autocensure : les Marocains délient leurs langues sans crainte, se lâchent, expriment leurs opinions, partagent avec les autres leurs joies et leurs déboires, les films qu'ils ont aimés ou détestés… «Où et comment ?», demandent certains. Via les blogs, tout simplement ! Ce phénomène, défini aujourd'hui comme la blogosphère, connaît un essor sans précédent partout dans le monde. Blogs et médias : une relation complexeLes blogs constituent, à n'en pas douter, un nouveau média d'information, libre et incisif, et incitent les observateurs à étudier les conséquences de cette nouvelle forme d'expression publique. «C'est un complément, une source alternative qui peut parfois dénoter avec le discours ambiant ou être très performante sur des sujets peu couverts par les médias », dit notre informaticien.En effet, quand plusieurs médias internationaux tels que le «New York Times» ou le «Guardian » disposent de leurs propres blogs, que de nombreux journalistes disposent également d'un blog personnel, cela démontre qu'il existe une relation très complexe entre les blogs et les médias. Souvent les médias voient certains faits leur échapper du fait de la contrainte de la publication, contrairement aux blogs. Et c'est justement ici que ces derniers peuvent intervenir comme source complémentaire d'informations pour les médias traditionnels. Un blogger qui est parfois un spécialiste dans son domaine et qui va échanger au sein d'une communauté de bloggers sur un thème précis, constitue pour un journaliste une source d'information très qualifiée. Le blogger peut aussi être le témoin d'un événement. Le 11 Septembre est à nouveau l'exemple de l'importance qu'ont prise les témoignages des bloggers. Idem lors du Tsunami, la guerre en Irak ou l'ouragan Katrina. Autrement dit, les lecteurs et l'audience peuvent maintenant jouer un rôle dans la production de l'information. Internet et les blogs constituent aujourd'hui des outils d'information, de collaboration et de diffusion qui modifient considérablement la donne du jeu médiatique. |
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Thursday, June 29, 2006
Blogosphère, un phénomène de masse
What about Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya: The Editors blog
Welcome
- 26 Jun 06, 08:00 AM
Welcome to The Editors, a new blog written by editors from across the range of BBC News outlets - TV, radio and interactive - about their issues, dilemmas, and highs (and lows) they face in doing their jobs. From Newsround to Newsnight, via everything from Radio One Newsbeat to the BBC News website, we hope all areas of BBC News will be represented here.
We are committed to being impartial, fair and accurate - these are the qualities which BBC News is rightly expected to uphold. But we also want to be open and accountable, and while this is nothing new (my colleagues and I are quite used to appearing on Newswatch on News 24 and Feedback on Radio 4), we are hoping this blog will be a fresh way of having a direct conversation with you, our audiences.
But of course the real strength of blogs is that they can be a conversation - which is where you come in. Tell us your views, either by adding your comments at the bottom of individual entries, or by e-mailing us directly. We want to know what you think.
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أحمد فياض-غزة
قال موقع صحيفة يديعوت أحرونوت الإسرائيلية على الإنترنت إن أكثر من 750 موقعا إسرائيليا على شبكة الإنترنت قد تم اختراقها وإتلافها. وذلك مباشرة بعد بدء العملية العسكرية الإسرائيلية "أمطار الصيف" في قطاع غزة.
وبحسب الصحيفة فإن المقتحمين هم مجموعة مغربية تطلق على نفسها اسم "Team Evil" وهي ذات المجموعة التي كانت مسؤولة عن إتلاف مواقع إسرائيلية عديدة على الشبكة خلال العام الماضي.
وأشار الموقع إلى أن بين المواقع التي هوجمت الموقع الفرعي لبنك هبوعليم الإسرائيلي, موقع بنك أوتسار هحيال, مستشفى رمبام, موقع BMW الإسرائيلي, سوبارو الإسرائيلي، وكذلك موقع شبيبة كاديما حزب رئيس الوزراء الإسرائيلي إيهود أولمرت.
وذكرت الصحيفة أن قسما كبيرا من هذه المواقع لا يعمل حتى الآن، وأشارت إلى أن المهاجمين المغاربة تركوا رسالة على المواقع التي أتلفت تقول: أنتم تقتلون الفلسطينيين ونحن نقتل السرفرات الإسرائيلية.
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Monday, June 26, 2006
Hi Arab bloggers, HABERMAS. This is great to read and reflect on
Sunday, June 25, 2006
BlogRevolt.com by David Kline
The Future of Political Blogging: 6 Predictions, by David Kline
1] Blogs have broken the monopoly of the mainstream media over political discourse and recast the traditional political agenda to include long-ignored voices and issues. Moreover, by challenging the historic media pose of "objectivity," blogs are leading America "back to the future" of a much more diverse and openly-partisan media -- to a revival of the 19th Century "broadside" and "penny press."
2] Blogs are to politics today what TV was to the Nixon-Kennedy campaign of 1960 -- the midwife of a new paradigm in campaign strategy. From now on, victory will go not just to the master of the television "sound bite," but also to the candidate best able to mobilize and direct what author Hugh Hewitt calls blog-fueled "opinion storms" around key issues.
3] "Sound bite" politics, of course, was an artifact of media "scarcity" -- most especially the limits of the 90 second TV story format. But in the new era of media "abundance," in which any citizen can broadcast and publish at will, blogs will very likely result in more substantive issues-oriented political campaigning.
4] Although some worry that blogs are deepening the polarization and divisions already present in American politics, their participatory and popular character cannot help but engender a significant resurgence in citizen involvement in the political process and in voting. The days are over when only 50 percent of eligible voters will show up at the polls on presidential election day.
5] Blogs are not simply political persuaders, however. They are also "collective organizers" of grassroots political action that are already beginning to weaken top-down party control of the political process, erode Big Money's absolute domination over the selection of candidates, and enhance the ability of insurgent candidates of all political hues to emerge and compete effectively.
6] Indeed, bloggers' unique and unprecedented ability to mobilize the "long tail" of electoral politics -- i.e., the myriad streams of independent political opinion in America whose collective vote-getting ability, if only harnessed and directed, could potentially rival that of the two main parties -- could very well fuel the emergence of viable 3rd party candidates by the end of this decade.
Your thoughts?
Friday, June 23, 2006
From Print to Pixel
Photograph by Elisabeth Fall
Blog On: Dan Gillmor is busy moving his act from Bayosphere to Backfence.
From Print to Pixel
Blogging innovator Dan Gillmor knows that newspapers need to stop lecturing their readers and start conversing with them
By Najeeb Hasan
DAN GILLMOR'S announcement this past January that his experiment with citizen journalism through his website Bayosphere was effectively over came relatively quietly, especially when compared to the frenzy his widely influential 2004 book, We the Media, caused.
In the beginning, Bayosphere, started by Gillmor, the former Mercury News tech-columnist-turned-blogging-guru, was designed to democratize the media from the bottom up. It even attracted some seed funding from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's Omidyar Network.
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But in a recent candid post on Bayosphere, Gillmor wrote that the response to his site had been "underwhelming" and that he had erred by taking the standard "Silicon Valley route" to the venture—that is, by trying to have it "pay its own way out of the gate."
He listed several lessons that he learned from the experiment, including the idea that limiting participation in citizen journalism ventures isn't "necessarily a bad idea"—something that may sound antithetical to citizen journalism's democratizing mission.
These days, Gillmor's main focus is on establishing a new nonprofit organization—the Center for Citizen Media—which is affiliated with both the journalism graduate school at Berkeley and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Bayosphere, meanwhile, has been bought by Backfence.com, a Washington, D.C.-area startup that focuses on community-driven citizen journalism. Backfence is starting a citizen journalism site in Palo Alto, its first venture into the Bay Area. Gillmor will continue to blog on Backfence, which focuses on "hyperlocal" news and, like Craigslist, offers free classified ads to consumers and sells classified and display ads to businesses.
Metro caught up with Gillmor online while he was in a conference in Finland. In a wide-ranging discussion, he explains why, despite Bayosphere's unfulfilled potential, citizen journalism is alive and well.
METRO: How would you analyze the effectiveness of the Silicon Valley blogosphere? Are there any lessons to be learned about blogging being effective on a community level as opposed to a "Big Issue" level?
GILLMOR: I'm not sure what "effectiveness" means in this context. Is it audience, quality of work or what? How do you define community? By geography? Interest? I do assume you are referring to journalistic effectiveness. Clearly, there's an enormous amount of technology-related blogging, which by any measure is helping to make for a better-informed audience in and about Silicon Valley. Blogs like GigaOm, TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Beat and lots of others are doing a terrific job. SFist, CoastSider and other local blogs are capturing the flavor of their communities, meanwhile. The area's newspapers haven't been sufficiently snarky about the property bubble, so I like reading CurbedSF, which covers "real estate porn" with some style.
That said, much smaller locales have much more robust blogospheres in a relative sense. The Greensboro 101 operation in North Carolina, for example, is amazing in its breadth and depth for the region.
In your blog postings and interviews, you've rejected the traditional journalism vs. citizen journalism debate, writing that rather than the situation being an "either or matter," it should be viewed as "an ecosystem that can and should support a variety of journalistic endeavors." But aren't newsrooms facing "either or decisions" today by having to decide whether to invest time and resources in blogs and the "democratizion" of media, or in more traditional old-media methods of ramping up editorial content, such as investigative and foreign reporting?
Businesses always have to make decisions about how to deploy resources. You might just as well say that newsrooms are facing an either-or-decision on local nuts-and-bolts news vs. investigations. It's never that binary. The key problem facing professional news organizations now is declining audiences combined with uncertain revenues and financial speculators posing as investors. That makes the choices even more difficult. This reality exists independent of what editors and publishers might like to do.
You'd expect me to say this: Local media will be forced to embrace the democratized media space, and not just because it'll be a place where they can generate new revenues. If journalism is becoming a conversation, as I also strongly believe, these newer media forms are fundamental to that evolution. Media organizations that don't use them will fall behind from a journalistic standpoint.
I don't agree that investigative reporting and citizen media are incompatible. In some cases, enlisting the audience in a reporting task—where lots of people could ask one or a very few questions as part of survey or project—could have fantastic results. (I suggested this to the Wall Street Journal in its great coverage of the stock-options scandal, which I have no doubt will end up embroiling more than a few Silicon Valley companies.)
In the hierarchical mainstream media, one of the responsibilities of an editor is to help guide the content of the publication. Do you see an editor having a gatekeeper role to play in the citizen journalism model? Or do you feel hierarchical models no longer work for media?
The need for some kind of human intervention isn't going away. At the very least, you need moderation (in several senses of the word) where people can post publicly.
Sometimes the audience can exercise an editorial function. Sites like Digg and Newsvine, which rate stories by popularity, are an interesting start toward a more interesting combination of human and machine intelligence, but we have to add reputation to the mix to get a more worthwhile result.
Pro journalists, if we can afford to pay them (I hope so), will be as much guides as oracles. That's not so much gatekeeping, a command-and-control function, as something much more interactive.
The investigative journalist Seymour Hersh was asked by a British newspaper about your "We are the media" thesis. He responded, "The net does one thing great for people like me: It used to be that if I wrote a good hard story for The New Yorker magazine, and The New York Times didn't pick it up, then we all felt bad.
Now the Internet is so vibrant that everything's on it—on blogs, logs or websites." Do you believe that's the most promising aspect of citizen journalism—its ability to replicate the public square rather than replicate Seymour Hersh?
Seymour Hersh, like a small number of other great reporters, can't be replicated. They're forces of nature. We need the work they do.
He's right that the net is making his work vastly more prominent than in the past. That's what tends to happen in an ecosystem where the highest-quality stuff gets flagged and pointed to.
In the Guardian interview you cite, Hersh also said, "Now everyone's worried that blogs will drive newspapers out of business, but it's not going to happen." This was a reference to journalistic competition, which so far isn't all that serious from blogs (though at least a few are clearly doing a better job than their traditional counterparts).
The competition issue that matters in the near term is the financial one. When companies that consider journalism a distraction take away classified advertising and other revenues that support traditional journalists, you have the real issue. Blogs aren't driving newspapers out of business; eBay and Craigslist and the host of advertising competitors might. (As noted, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's investment company helped me on the Bayosphere project, and Craig Newmark is a friend who's given some support to the new one.)
Newspapers and other media companies have no more innate right to exist than any other enterprise, but it would be terrible for our society if what Big Journalism does well failed to survive the current turmoil.
I love the public square part of blogging. I wish more newspapers and local broadcasters would embrace it, too. I think they'll have no alternative in the end.
Do you find it unsettling that one of the dominant characteristics of the blogosphere is its anonymity, which prevents accountability?
I disagree with the premise. Most blogs are not anonymous. Comments often are, however.
We need more transparency in many ways. The pros could tell us a lot more about how they do their work. Certain bloggers could tell us more clearly when they have a stake in the outcome of what they're discussing. Just as important, the audience has to update its media literacy skills, weighing what it sees and being much more careful in trusting things.
Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, had this to say about blogs at a speech at Oxford University on June 8: "Millions of websites will aggregate what we do, syndicate it, link it, comment on it, sneer at it, mash it, trash it, monetize it, praise it and attempt to discredit it—in some cases all at once. But no one will actually go to the risk and expense of setting up a global network of people whose only aim in their professional lives is to find things out, establish if they're true and write about them quickly, accurately and comprehensibly. The blogosphere, which is frequently parasitical on the mainstream media it so remorselessly critiques, can't ever hope to replicate that." How would you respond to that?
Alan is one of the journalists I most admire, and I largely agree with him. I would hope to replace "parasitical" with "symbiotic" in a general way, though. Again, I'm anxious that the business model supporting the Guardian will survive so we can learn what its army of correspondents discovers and sifts.
The context of Alan's remarks is important, too. He and his colleagues have done more than most newspapers to embrace blogging and other conversational media. They have a long way to go, but they're clearly among the most clued-in people around when it comes to understanding—and deploying—these tools.
What's the difference between a citizen journalist and a citizen commentator or pundit—and how do you demarcate that difference?
Sometimes they're the same, just as a newspaper columnist is a journalist by almost any standard you can name. Advocacy journalism is no less the real thing than boilerplate wire-service writing; it's just different. The best journalism is based on reporting, though—on the gathering of data and explaining its context and meaning.
I'm about to start work on some online educational help for would-be citizen journalists. My focus will be on journalistic principles, not practices. They include accuracy, thoroughness, fairness, independence and transparency.
Keep in mind that most bloggers don't consider themselves journalists, and that's fine. When I was writing letters home and to friends in the ancient days before personal computers, I hoped my writing had value for them. But I definitely wasn't doing journalism.
You famously suggested that Yahoo buy the Mercury News. Why do you think no local bidders came to the table?
Famously? The L.A. Times said (paraphrasing) that the suggestion sank almost without a trace. I can't judge others' motives. But I'd guess that the valley powers-that-be (the real ones) consider the local newspaper business uninteresting if not ridiculous.
I do think it's a shame that Tony Ridder obeyed his lawyers (OK, he had little choice) when they basically ordered him not to pursue a local buyout of the Merc while the Knight Ridder sale was under way.
دراسة تقترح إنشاء مؤسسة حكومية لقمع "الاباحية
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دبي- العربية.نت
حذرت دراسة في السعودية من اقتحام "الرذيلة الإلكترونية" للبيوت وتهديدها للشباب مشيرة الي التأثيرات السلبية والصحية للمواقع الجنسية في الانترنت، واعتبرت أن حجب هذه المواقع من قبل السلطات السعودية هو الأسلوب الفعال لمواجهة هذه الظاهرة التي تجتاح العالم.
لكن الدراسة طالبت بتأسيس مؤسسة حكومية متكاملة ذات صلاحيات وسيادة مناسبة وموارد مالية وبشرية وتقنية كافية لوضع وتنفيذ استراتجيات محكمة ومكثفة لقمع المواد الإباحية.
وتشير دراسة قدمها الدكتورمشعل القدهي إلى كلية الملك فهد الأمنية في الرياض بعنوان: " الإباحية في الانترنت والاتصالات والإعلام وأثرها في الفرد والمجتمع والأمن العام"، الى أن "إدمان الجنس عبر الانترنت" يبدأ بفضول بريء ثم تتطور إلى إدمان مع عواقب وخيمة ذاتية واجتماعية واقتصادية وأمنية.
ويوضح الأطباء أن " 94 في المئة من الحالات التي حاولت العلاج أوضحت أن الصور والوسائل الإباحية هي التي وجهت ويسرت ودفعت هذا الإدمان، وغالباً تبدأ حالات الإدمان هذه بالاطلاع على صور إباحية أو باعتداء جنسي»، بحسب الطبعة السعودية لصحيفة الحياة الجمعة 23-6-2006 .
ويطرح القدهي في دراسته سؤالاً عن جدوى الحجب الذي تمارسه السعودية وبعض الدول الأخرى، لمنع الدخول إلى المواقع الجنسية، مؤكداً أن الحجب من الأساليب المجدية والفعالة التي هدانا إليه ربنا عز وجل في كتابه الكريم. فنحن نقرأ في قصة نبي الله يوسف عليه السلام أنه حينما وجد نفسه أمام فتنة النساء وخشي على نفسه المعصية دعا الله قائلاً: (قال ربي السجن أحب إليّ مما يدعونني إليه وإلا تصرف عني كيدهن أصب إليهن وأكن من الجاهلين).
ويقول الباحث: «نلاحظ أنه مع كون سيدنا يوسف عليه السلام من الأنبياء والمقربين ومن أشد الناس طاعة لله وأكثرهم عبادة وأهداهم وأشدهم خشية لله فلم يأمن على نفسه هذه الفتنة الحاضرة المستمرة غير المحجوبة ولا الممنوعة ، فدعا ربه أن يحجب هذا الشر عنه فاستجاب ربه لدعائه».
ويؤكد الدكتور القدهي في بحثه أن الدراسات في السعودية أوضحت أن 85 في المئة من المواقع المدرجة في القائمة السوداء الوطنية اليوم تنتمي إلى الصفحات الإباحية، وتنقسم النسبة المتبقية حوالى 15 في المئة على بقية الفئات مثل الصفحات التي تسيء إلى الدين الإسلامي أو التي تسيء إلى الدولة أو التي تروج إلى القمار والمخدرات والإرهاب والسرقة وغيرها.
وبحسب صحيفة الحياة ، يفيد فريق الترشيح الوطني في السعودية انه خلال السنوات الماضية - وبالأخص في السنوات الثلاث الأخيرة – " بدأت الصفحات الإباحية المتخصصة ببنات وأولاد المسلمين بالظهور، وهذا مؤسف مخجل، وكثيراً ما تستضاف هذه الصفحات خارج المملكة، كما أنها كثيراً ما تتم محاولة إخفائها في صفحات أخرى وخلف نظام اشتراكات".
ويفيد الفريق المذكور " أن المصدر الأساسي لهذه المواد الإباحية في الوقت الحاضر هو كاميرات الجوالات وخدمات الدردشة المصورة (مثل البالتوك) حيث يقوم الشباب والشابات بتصوير مشاهد التعري أو الفاحشة أو اللواط بهذه الوسائل ثم تحميل تلك المشاهد إلى الانترنت وتبادلها مباشرة في الطرقات العامة بين السيارات باستخدام تقنية البلوتوث الخاصة بالجولات الحديثة، والتي تيسر نقل الملفات بين الأفراد في أماكن التجمعات بيسر وسهولة".
ويرى الدكتور القدهي وجوب ان يوجد فريق متكامل من الفنيين البارعين القائمين على التطوير المستمر والمتابعة الحيثية لما يستجد من طرق فنية لمكافحة الرذيلة الإلكترونية وأشار إلى أن «النصح والإرشاد والتوعية يأتي في المقدمة، وذلك ضمن برامج رسمية مدروسة ومتكاملة يشترك فيها علماء الدين والتربويون ورجال الإعلام».
وخلص إلى توصيات أخرى بينها: «إيجاد البدائل البنّاءة والمفيدة، فلا بد من وجود المحتوى العلمي المفيد، والمحتوى الترفيهي الهادف، والمحتوى الديني المتزن، وخدمات الاتصال الحديثة والمطورة والسريعة والخالية من المواد التي تخدش الحياء في متناول الجميع، وإمكان البيع والشراء وممارسة التجارية الشريفة بيسر وسهولة، وخدمات الحكومة الالكترونية الميسرة».
وأضاف: «كذلك المتابعة والتوجيه وحسن الرفقة من أولياء الأمور، وقد ذكرنا في الإحصاءات التي أوردناها في فصول الدراسة أن 63 في المئة من المراهقين الذين يرتادون صفحات وصور الدعارة لا يدري أولياء أمورهم بطبيعة ما يتصفحونه على الانترنت، علماً أن أكثر مرتادي المواد الإباحية تتراوح أعمارهم بين 12 و 17 سنة، كما أن 97 في المئة من أولياء الأمور لا يعلمون حقيقة ما تحتويه ألعاب الفيديو التي بين أيدي أطفالهم من منكرات وعنف وإباحية وتعري وغيرها».
وأكد الباحث أن دراسته أكدت أن «الجهود المحلية في مكافحة الإباحية قد نجحت في الحد بشكل كبير من سيل الجارف من المواد الإباحية في خدمة النسيج العالمي، ولكن مصادر المواد الإباحية كثيرة منها: القنوات الفضائية وخدمات شبكية بالعشرات والهاتف الجوال وأقراص الحاسبات الآلية وأشرطة الفيديو والمجلات»
لكنه طالب بإنشاء «مؤسسة حكومية متكاملة ذات صلاحيات وسيادة مناسبة وموارد مالية وبشرية وتقنية كافية لوضع وتنفيذ استراتجيات محكمة ومكثفة لقمع المواد الإباحية في هذه الوسائل جميعها ومحاسبة مروجيها، فالجهود الحالية مع منافعها إلا إنها قاصرة والسياسات الحالية كثيراً ما نجدها غير مفعلة».الحملة شملت حجب موقع للناشطة بالجماع
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وأكد بيان للجماعة أن السلطات حجبت الموقع الإلكتروني الخاص بنادية يس نجلة زعيم الجماعة، وكذلك مواقع القطاع النسائي التابعة للجماعة على شبكة الإنترنت.
وفي اتصال مع الجزيرة أوضح فتح الله أرسلان الناطق باسم العدل والإحسان أن الهدف من هذه الاعتقالات هو منع الجماعة من القيام بدورها الذي وصفه بأنه تربوي وسياسي يهدف لطرح الإسلام بمفهومه الشامل.
وأضاف أن جماعته كانت تنتظر أن تقارعها الحكومة الحجة بالحجة والفكر بالفكر لا الالتجاء إلى أسلوب الاعتقال والقهر، على حد قول
Thursday, June 22, 2006
France should be a model for North African politicians in matters of political communication?
La stratégie Internet de l'UMP
L’Union pour un Mouvement Populaire lance aujourd’hui sa plateforme de blogs. Premier parti de France avec plus de 250 000 adhérents, l’UMP l’est aussi sur Internet : un site exhaustif, mis à jour en permanence, une newsletter envoyée à 150 000 abonnés, les mailings en direction de nouveaux sympathisants, l'adhésion en ligne qui connaît un succès grandissant, l’achat de mots-clés pour accroître notre visibilité et répondre à nos adversaires, les centaines de sites de sections locales ou d’élus.
C’est bien. Mais il faut faire encore mieux. Parce que l’Internet ne cesse d’évoluer et que le monde du 2.0 a désormais supplanté celui du 1.0. Parce que le débat politique en ligne prend une importance chaque jour grandissante, comme l’ont montré l’élection présidentielle américaine de 2004 ou la campagne du référendum européen. Parce que le combat des idées va devenir de plus en plus rude à l’approche des échéances électorales de 2007 et 2008.
En nous confiant la responsabilité de la nouvelle stratégie de l’UMP sur Internet, Nicolas Sarkozy nous propose un véritable défi que nous comptons bien relever :
Un nouveau site est prêt, organisé autour de trois idées forces : « S’informer », « Débattre », « Agir ».
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لدول العربية تتفاوت في مؤشرات الجهوزية المعلوماتية
قالت مسؤولة بالبرنامج الإنمائي للأمم المتحدة إن ثمة "فجوة رقمية" بين الدول العربية، وأحيانا داخل الدولة الواحدة، حيث تتباين مستويات البنى التحتية لتقنية المعلومات وقدرات الأفراد على اقتناء التقنيات من مدينة إلى أخرى.
ففي تصريح للجزيرة نت قالت نجاة رشدي المنسقة الإقليمية لبرنامج تقنية المعلومات والاتصالات من أجل التنمية في المنطقة العربية (اقتدار)، إنه رغم أن مؤشرات الجهوزية المعلوماتية (e-readiness) في العالم العربي بصورة عامة ليست جيدة، وهي تشمل عدد مستخدمي الحواسيب وخريجي المعاهد التقنية وكلفة الاتصال بشبكة الإنترنت وغيرها، فإن ثمة تفاوتا شديدا بين الدول العربية في هذا الصدد.
وأضافت منسقة برنامج "اقتدار" المتأسس عام 2003 أن في المنطقة العربية بلدانا أسبق في ميدان الجهوزية المعلوماتية من غيرها، ثم تجد في الدولة الواحدة جيوبا ومناطق أكثر تقدما من غيرها.
وأكدت أن أي صورة لفجوة رقمية -سواء داخل المنطقة العربية أو بينها وبين العالم- هي امتداد لفجوات اقتصادية واجتماعية قائمة، وأنه لا يمكن معالجة الفرع إلا بمعالجة الجذور.
ورغم ذلك فإن ثمة تقنيات تخطت هذا التفاوت وحظيت بقبول متماثل تقريبا لدى كل الدول العربية، كالهواتف النقالة مثلا.
الهواتف النقالة 
وأضافت المسؤولة الأممية أن الانتشار الواسع للهواتف النقالة يدفعنا للتفكير حول أسباب ذلك النجاح، لتكون هاديا لنا عند التخطيط لتقديم تقنيات أو وسائل جديدة لرأب الفجوة الرقمية في العالم العربي.
وعددت أسباب القبول الواسع للهواتف النقالة فذكرت أن هذه التقنية أثبتت بصورة ملموسة أنها تحسن الفرص الاقتصادية للأفراد. كذلك تم تحوير هذه التقنية وطريقة الحصول عليها لتتلاءما مع التقاليد المحلية. فالبطاقات المدفوعة مسبقا -مثلا- لا تختلف كثيرا عن أسلوب الادخار الفردي ثم الإنفاق من هذه المدخرات لاحقا، كما أن فرصة الحصول على هذه الخدمة أتيحت عبر مدى واسع من الخيارات تصلح لمستويات متباينة من الدخل.
وكان برنامج "اقتدار" -ومقره القاهرة- قد تأسس في أعقاب تقرير التنمية البشرية للمنطقة العربية لعام 2002 والذي ركز على دور مجتمع المعلومات في تحسين الفرص الاقتصادية للأفراد وترسيخ ممارسات الحكم الصالح في المنطقة.
ويتمحور البرنامج حول تسخير تقنية المعلومات والاتصالات لمعالجة مشكلات الفقر والفجوة الرقمية وتحسين أداء القطاعين الحكومي والخاص.
ومن هذه البرامج برنامج "أجيالكم" لتحسين المهارات التقنية للشباب العرب وتعريفهم بحقوق المواطنة وواجباتها. ولهذا البرنامج مراكز تدريب في سوريا ومصر والمغرب واليمن.
وهناك أيضا برنامجا "مشروعاتي" لتحسين أداء المشروعات الصغيرة والمتوسطة، و"اقترب" لمساعدة ضعاف البصر في الحصول على المعرفة عبر تقنيات وتطبيقات متخصصة، وذلك من خلال مراكز دشنت حتى الآن في مصر وسوريا.
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics
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حرية الإنترنت في الصين تحت اختبار المدونات
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ويبدو أن موقع سوهو حجب مدونة نيكولاس كريستوف اليوم بينما لم يحجبها موقع سينا، كما رفضت متحدثة باسم سوهو التعليق على الواقعة.
وكتب كريستوف في عموده بنيويورك تايمز أن النتيجة هي أن الصين أكثر حرية مما يريد حكامها، وحصل كريستوف على جائزة بوليتزر الصحفية للتغطية الدولية مع زوجته شيريل وودون لتغطيتهما مذبحة ميدان تيانانمين عام 1989.
وقال "بالنسبة لي فإن هذا التيار لا يمكن إيقافه فأنا لا أعرف كيف ستتمكن دكتاتورية الحزب الشيوعي من الاستمرار في ظل الإنترنت، في حين أن مدونة واحدة يمكنها أن تنطلق كالنار في الهشيم"، مستعيرا كلمات زعيم الحزب الشيوعي السابق ماو تسي تونغ.
وفي المدونات الجديدة التي وضعت على موقعي سوهو وسينا شجب كريستوف اعتقال الصحفي الصيني جاو يان، وطالب الرئيس الصيني هو جينتاو بأن يضرب مثلا في محاربة الفساد بالإعلان عن مصادر أمواله.
وذكر حركة فالون جونغ الروحية المحظورة في الصين منذ 1999 وكيف أنه رأى الجنود الصينيين يطلقون النار على المتظاهرين المؤيدين للديمقراطية بساحة تيانانمين في الرابع من يونيو/حزيران 1989، وهما أمران يحظر التحدث عنهما في الصين.
وكان الصحفي جاو (44 عاما) قد قال إنه غير مذنب بعد أن اتهم بالتزوير وتسريب أسرار تخص الدولة، ولكن محاميه قال إن الأمل في تبرئته ضعيف ويواجه حكما بالسجن لمدة أكثر من عشرة أعوام.
ونقلت صحيفة مورنينغ بوست التي تصدر في هونغ كونغ عن مصادر لم تكشف عن هويتها أن السلطات الصينية كثفت إجراءات السيطرة على محركات البحث والبوابات الإلكترونية التي لا تتمكن من حجب بعض الكلمات التي تصفها الحكومة بأنها مضرة سياسيا.
ولكن متحدثتين باسم موقعي سينا وسوهو قالتا إن محركي البحث لديهما أغلقا مساء الاثنين لإجراء تعديلات فنية، ونفتا معرفتهما بوجود عمل حكومي ضدهما ورفضت وزارة الإعلام التعليق على الواقعة.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
القاهرة تفرج عن مدون فائز بجائزة صحفيون بلا حدود
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وألقت السلطات القبض على علاء سيف الإسلام مع عشرة نشطاء آخرين في السابع من مايو/أيار الماضي لتظاهرهم تأييدا لقاضيين أحيلا لمحاكمة تأديبية لإدلائهما بتصريحات لوسائل الإعلام عما قالا إنها تجاوزات وقعت بالانتخابات التشريعية التي أجريت العام الماضي.
وذكر أقارب سيف الإسلام أن السلطات قررت الإفراج عنه دون إسقاط الاتهامات الموجهة إليه، وكان قد حبس 15 يوما وتجدد حبسه مرتين نفس المدة كل مرة.
وحسب الإجراءات المتبعة بالإفراج عن المحتجزين فلن يغادر سيف الإسلام محبسه قبل الأربعاء.
وانتقدت منظمة هيومان رايتس ووتش لحقوق الإنسان التي تتخذ من نيويورك مقر لها اعتقال النشطاء ومنهم سيف الإسلام، وطالبت بإطلاقهم. وقالت وقتذاك إن الاعتقالات تشير إلى أن الرئيس حسني مبارك يريد إسكات كل المعارضة السلمية.
ويدير سيف الإسلام وزوجته منال بهي الدين مدونة منال وعلاء، وهي صفحات مجانية على شبكة الإنترنت تدعو للحرية والديمقراطية بمصر، وكانت أول مدونة عربية تحصل على جائزة جماعة صحفيون بلا حدود للمدونات.
وبعد احتجاز سيف الإسلام نظمت حملة على الإنترنت تطالب بالإفراج عنه، واستطاع تحديث مدونته من الزنزانة من خلال كتابات تصل لزوجت
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فيلم وثائقي عن المدونين المصريين - مع علاء و مالك و آخرين
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صور الفيلم مع علاء و مالك و آخرين
Arab democratisation will be INTERNETIZED and not SATELLIZED
Al-Jazeera devoted some time to Arab bloggers:
ASB and Blogging can change the culture on Arab politcial communication is based.
I think that Arab democratisation will be INTERNETIZED and not SATELLIZED (Ibahrine, 2006).
الجزيرة - تحت المجهر - المدونون
Egypt to release award-winning blogger from jail
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities on Tuesday ordered the release of an award-winning blogger arrested last month during protests in support of judges demanding greater judicial independence, relatives and friends said.
Alaa Seif El Islam was arrested on May 7 with 10 other activists for demonstrating in support of two judges facing a disciplinary hearing for reporting electoral violations.
Prosecutors extended his detention for three consecutive 15-day periods, and then ordered his release on Tuesday. But they had not dropped the charges, the relatives said.
Under the usual release procedures, Seif El Islam would not leave jail until Wednesday.
The New York-based group Human Rights Watch had criticised the detention of the protesters, including Seif El Islam, and called for their release. "These new arrests indicate that President (Hosni) Mubarak intends to silence all peaceful opposition," the group said at the time.
Seif El Islam and his wife, Manal Bahy el-Din, run the dissident Web site www.manalaa.net, which campaigns for freedom and democracy in Egypt. They won an award from the media freedom group Reporters Without Borders.
He became the centre of an extensive Internet campaign to secure his release and managed to continue posting on his blog from his cell through notes passed to his wife.
Monday, June 19, 2006
Rachid Jankari is, without doubt, the best information source on ICTs in North Africa.
Please read Jankari's very informative report on blogging in Morocco.
L’année 2006 est par excellence l’année du boom des blogs. Et pour cause, la dynamique enregistrée au niveau de l’équipement informatique et la baisse des prix du haut débit (ADSL) s’est répercutée sur la croissance exponentielle de la blogosphère.
La blogosphère marocaine compte plus que 9.000 blogs.
Merkels second podcast
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Sie wünsche sich, "dass mehr und mehr Unternehmen ihren Mitarbeitern die Chance geben, eine Zeit lang zu Hause zu bleiben und ihre Kinder zu betreuen - ohne einen Karriereknick befürchten zu müssen." Nach dem Kabinettsbeschluss für das Elterngeld vom vergangenen Mittwoch seien die Firmen am Zug, erklärte Merkel nach Regierungsangaben vom Freitag.
Abrufbar ist das neue Internet-"Podcast" von diesem Samstag an im Internet unter www.bundeskanzlerin.de. Merkels erste Video-Botschaft drehte sich in der vergangenen Woche um die Fußball-WM.
Merkel-Podcast: www.bundeskanzlerin.de
Weblogs. Eine kommunikationssoziologische Studie
I read the Ausblicj Perspective. It is excellent.
This is the first complete book, treating blogs from sociological and communication perspectives.
The book is a very structred introduction ti this new subject.
It should be translated into English.
SIPO on metablog sur les blogs arabes
Un metablog sur les blogs arabes
Bienvenue au club !
Et en plus, il le fait de temps en temps en français ! Mohammed Ibahrine est marocain, et en poste à l'université de Hambourg (donc, en plus de l'arabe,du français et de l'anglais, il doit se débrouiller en allemand j'imagine !) Mais surtout, il anime ce qu'il appelle un "metablog" sur les blogs arabes, autour des questions de communication politique (comme l'indique le sous-titre anglais "arab blogs and political communication"). Allez vite y faire un tour, il y a bien souvent des choses très intéressantes, qui concernent de très très près nos propres préoccupations.
Au gré des dernières rubriques : une recherche bibliographique sur les publications en anglais relatives à nos questions préférées, un truc sur techniques, communications et politique dont j'ai fait l'illustration (a-t-il lu Régis Debray sur la question ?), des notes sur un forum de bloggers à Dubaï, en Egypte, aux Emirats et encore ailleurs, la présentation d'une publication à laquelle il a participé : tout le monde y trouvera son compte !
Cerise sur le gâteau : il passe même une info concernant la condamnation de Muhammad Ghanem, l'animateur de http://www.surion.org (mais là, vous étiez probablement déjà au courant, n'est-ce pas ?)
En tout cas, je voulais absolument vous présenter cette adresse, à glisser dans vos favoris. Quand à Mohamed Ibahrine, j'imagine que nos chemins se croiseront un de ces jours, et pas seulement dans le virtuel. (je lui ai laissé un message pour lui signaler ce billet.)
SIPO and blogging the Arab World
I highly appreciate it.
Your project sounds very interesing. I am interested in exchanging new ideas.
With the best wishes
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please visit this very informative blog.
http://projet-sipo.blogspot.com/
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LA SOCIETE DE L'INFORMATION AU PROCHE ORIENT
Lancé en 2004, le séminaire régional SIPO (Beyrouth, Amman, Damas, avec une réunion annuelle à Paris) regroupe une dizaine de chercheurs confirmés ou en formation (doctorants), associés à des professionnels locaux des NTIC. Deux centres sont associés depuis 2004 dans ce projet le GREMMO de l'Université Lyon II (France) et le CEMAM de l'Université Saint Joseph (Beyrouth-Liban)
SABBAH on BLOGGING at Hindustan Times:
Internet blogs are giving rise to a new breed of Arab activist as ordinary residents increasingly use them to press for more political rights and civil liberties in conservative Gulf states.
Typical was a recent posting by a 33-year-old Saudi man. "Are we destined to just listen to the news of all the big changes around the world as we await a good deed from our king?" he questioned in his weblog, or blog.
And in one notable case, blogs in Kuwait were used to rally broad support last month for street demonstrations in favour of election law reforms.
The bloggers write in Arabic, English or a mixture of both. They are eager to set themselves apart from both newspaper and web columnists writing for established sites as well as the hugely popular Internet bulletin boards that often have a militant Islamic bent.
There are now about 1,000 Gulf Arab bloggers, up five times from 2004, according to Haitham Sabbah, a Bahrain-based blogger and Middle East editor for Global Voices, a programme launched last year by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School in the US that tracks and collects blogs worldwide.
Popular Saudi blogs by women include "Farah's Sowaleef", "A Thought in the Kingdom of Lunacy", and "Saudi Eve". They are peppered with sharp-tongued criticism of their male- dominated Muslim society and logs of rare escapades from an environment that demands obedience and modesty.
"I wore my leopard-printed heels and strategically placed a flower in my hair," read an April posting on "Saudi Eve", which has been censored by authorities since early June.
Saudi Arabia has the Gulf's biggest blogging community with about 300 bloggers, more than half of them women according to Omran. With Saudi's population of some 23 million it has one of the highest Internet penetration rates in the Arab world.
A Kuwaiti woman's blog, "Jewaira's Boudoir", breaches the region's taboos by posting episodes of a fictional erotic tale.
"The Religious Policeman", a blog written by an unnamed Saudi man living in Britain, is on a mission to expose what he regards as the hypocrisy of the kingdom's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the so-called religious police charged with enforcing the country's strict Islamic moral code.
His blog cannot be accessed in Saudi Arabia. Authorities there, like other Gulf governments censor everything deemed offensive to religious and moral values or threatening to society.
In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which has the region's second biggest weblog community, an Emirati male blogger writing in Arabic was censored one week after launching "The Land of Sands" in 2004.
But he continues posting his writings in which he attacks clerics and charges their influence is rising in the UAE. "They follow a plan to penetrate the government, media, schools and the laws. They are 'Islamising' our world, mind and life," he told AFP in an email interview.
SABBAH on Arab BLOGGING
Weblogs soar in Gulf statesInternet blogs are giving rise to a new breed of Arab activist as ordinary residents increasingly use them to press for political rights and civil liberties in conservative Gulf states.
According to Haitham Sabbah, a Bahrain-based blogger and Middle East editor for Global Voices, a programme launched last year by the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School in the United States that tracks and collects blogs worldwide, there are now about 1,000 Gulf Arab bloggers, up five times from 2004.
The bloggers write in Arabic, English or a mixture of both. They are eager to set themselves apart from both newspaper and web columnists writing for established sites as well as the hugely popular Internet bulletin boards that often have a militant Islamic bent.
Typical was a recent posting by a 33-year-old Saudi man. “Are we destined to just listen to the news of all the big changes around the world as we await a good deed from our king?” he said in his blog.
And in one notable case, blogs in Kuwait were used to rally support last month for street demonstrations in favour of election law reforms.
Saudi experience
Saudi Arabia has the Gulf’s biggest blogging community with about 3O0 bloggers, more than half of them women according to a Saudi blogger. With Saudi’s population of 23 million, it has one of the highest internet penetration rates in the Arab world.
“Saudis are by nature not politically active and fear speaking out, so it is going to take some time,” says Sabbah.
Popular Saudi blogs by women include Farah’s Sowaleef, A Thought in the Kingdom of Lunacy, and Saudi Eve. They are peppered with sharp-tongued criticism of their male-dominated society and logs of rare escapades from an environment that demands obedience and modesty.
“I wore my leopard-printed heels and strategically placed a flower in my hair,” read an April posting on Saudi Eve, which has been censored by the authorities since early June.
The Religious Policeman, a blog written by an unnamed Saudi man living in Britain, is on a mission to expose what he regards as the hypocrisy of the kingdom’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the so-called religious police, charged with enforcing the country’s strict Islamic moral code.
“The religious police epitomise what is wrong with my country,” a December posting read.
His blog cannot be accessed in Saudi Arabia. Authorities there, like other Gulf governments, censor everything deemed offensive to religious and moral values or threatening to security.
Saudi officials briefly blocked most Saudi blogs last year, and a group of bloggers led by Raed al-Saeed, 21, a university student who blogs in Arabic under the name Falsafat bidun Salfa (Philosophies without a tale), formed in March a blogging community that practices self-censorship by not criticising government policies, institutions or religious figures.
Other Gulf countries
In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which has the region’s second biggest weblog community, an Emirati male blogger writing in Arabic was censored one week after launching The Land of Sands in 2004.
But he has found a way to circumvent the internet servers of Etisalat, the state telecommunications monopoly, and continues posting his writings in which he attacks religious leaders.
In the island kingdom of Bahrain, a small blogging community includes former political prisoners, one of whom has led an online campaign calling for a boycott of the country’s dominant telecommunications company Batelco for what he deems excessive tariffs.
In Kuwait, one of the only two Gulf countries along with Bahrain with an elected parliament, bloggers ran a “virtual” campaign for election reform in April that spilled on to the streets in a Ukraine-type “orange” revolution.
Three university student bloggers translated a call by pro-reform MPs to cut the country’s electoral districts to five to fight corruption into a catchy campaign with a distinctive “5 for Kuwait” orange logo.
Bloggers spread the word online and hundreds of young people waving orange banners demonstrated outside the seat of government on May 5.
The campaign escalated into further protests. A bitter standoff between parliament and the government forced the country’s amir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed Al Sabah, to dissolve parliament on May 21, setting new elections for June 29.
AFP
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Al-Jazeera on Arab Blogging
nternet blogs are giving rise to a new breed of Arab activist as ordinary residents increasingly use them to press for political rights and civil liberties in conservative Gulf states.
According to Haitham Sabbah, a Bahrain-based blogger and Middle East editor for Global Voices, a programme launched last year by the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School in the United States that tracks and collects blogs worldwide, there are now about 1,000 Gulf Arab bloggers, up five times from 2004. The bloggers write in Arabic, English or a mixture of both. They are eager to set themselves apart from both
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| Bloggers in the Gulf have soared by five times since 2004 |
newspaper and web columnists writing for established sites as well as the hugely popular Internet bulletin boards that often have a militant Islamic bent.
Typical was a recent posting by a 33-year-old Saudi man. "Are we destined to just listen to the news of all the big changes around the world as we await a good deed from our king?" he said in his blog.
And in one notable case, blogs in Kuwait were used to rally support last month for street demonstrations in favour of election law reforms.
Saudi experience
Saudi Arabia has the Gulf's biggest blogging community with about 3O0 bloggers, more than half of them women according to a Saudi blogger. With Saudi's population of 23 million, it has one of the highest internet penetration rates in the Arab world.
"Saudis are by nature not politically active and fear speaking out, so it is going to take some time," says Sabbah.
Popular Saudi blogs by women include Farah's Sowaleef, A Thought in the Kingdom of Lunacy, and Saudi Eve. They are peppered with sharp-tongued criticism of their male-dominated society and logs of rare escapades from an environment that demands obedience and modesty.
"I wore my leopard-printed heels and strategically placed a flower in my hair," read an April posting on Saudi Eve, which has been censored by the authorities since early June.
The Religious Policeman, a blog written by an unnamed Saudi man living in Britain, is on a mission to expose what he regards as the hypocrisy of the kingdom's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the so-called religious police, charged with enforcing the country's strict Islamic moral code.
"The religious police epitomise what is wrong with my country," a December posting read.
His blog cannot be accessed in Saudi Arabia. Authorities there, like other Gulf governments, censor everything deemed offensive to religious and moral values or threatening to security.
Saudi officials briefly blocked most Saudi blogs last year, and a group of bloggers led by Raed al-Saeed, 21, a university student who blogs in Arabic under the name Falsafat bidun Salfa (Philosophies without a tale), formed in March a blogging community that practises self-censorship by not criticising government policies, institutions or religious figures.
Other Gulf countries
In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which has the region's second biggest weblog community, an Emirati male blogger writing in Arabic was censored one week after launching The Land of Sands in 2004.
But he has found a way to circumvent the internet servers of Etisalat, the state telecommunications monopoly, and continues posting his writings in which he attacks religious leaders.
In the island kingdom of Bahrain, a small blogging community includes former political prisoners, one of whom has led an online campaign calling for a boycott of the country's dominant telecommunications company Batelco for what he deems excessive tariffs.
In Kuwait, one of the only two Gulf countries along with Bahrain with an elected parliament, bloggers ran a "virtual" campaign for election reform in April that spilled on to the streets in a Ukraine-type "orange" revolution.
Three university student bloggers translated a call by pro-reform MPs to cut the country's electoral districts to five to fight corruption into a catchy campaign with a distinctive "5 for Kuwait" orange logo.
Bloggers spread the word online and hundreds of young people waving orange banners demonstrated outside the seat of government on May 5.
The campaign escalated into further protests. A bitter standoff between parliament and the government forced the country's amir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed Al Sabah, to dissolve parliament on May 21, announcing new elections for June 29.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
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Information and American Democracy : Technology in the Evolution of Political Power
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