Gayathry Venkiteswaran
Gayathry is a PhD candidate at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, where she also teaches media and politics and communications technologies. Her research focus is on media reforms in Southeast Asia.
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Flash Mob Korean Style
In Seoul for the Asia Europe Foundation's Informal Meeting on Human Rights, looking at human rights and ICTs, I made a few extra-curricular stops - it was hard not to, when just outside our hotel is an ongoing protest about labour rights. The protest site has obviously been occupied for some time - they are even growing tomato plants - and is just outside a major tourist attraction. The protest...
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Statement of the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Gender for the Taking Stock and Moving Forward Session
The statement of the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Gender presented at the third Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, India,on the 6 of December 2008.
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Why women need access to internet? Interview with Anita Gurumurthy from IT for Change (video)
Anita Gurumurthy from IT for Change is commenting on the issue of women's access to the internet in the context of the debates from Day 1 of IGF. The debates were primarily concerned with the infrastructure level of access but did not really touch on how access or its absence affects people in the so-called next billion. Download the video interview here:...
