Asia: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
|||
| Line 61: | Line 61: | ||
* [[Noronha, Frederick]] | * [[Noronha, Frederick]] | ||
* [[Sankaran, Shankar]] | * [[Sankaran, Shankar]] | ||
=Books:= | |||
Gan, S., J. Gomez and J. Uwe (eds.) (2004) '''Asian Cyberactivism''': Freedom of | |||
Expression and Media Censorship. Bangkok: Friedrich Naumann Foundation. | |||
=Essays:= | |||
#George, C. (2003) ‘'''The Internet and the Narrow Tailoring Dilemma for ‘Asian’ Democracies'''’, Communication Review 6 (3): 247-268. | |||
#Hachigian, N. (2002) ‘The Internet and Power in One-Party East Asian States’, Washington Quarterly 25(3): 41-58. | |||
=Places= | |||
DIYBio projects in Asia: | |||
#Biomodd (LBA2) Philippines project http://www.biomodd.net/lba2 | |||
#HONF http://www.natural-fiber.com | |||
#Singapore DIYbio event http://diybiosingapore.wordpress.com | |||
#Tokyo Hackerspace http://tokyohackerspace.org/ | |||
#Tokyo Radiation Levels http://www.facebook.com/Tokyo.Radiation.Levels | |||
#Tokyo Kids& Radiation community http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tokyo-Kids-Radiation/227762067240468 | |||
[[Category:Asia]] | [[Category:Asia]] | ||
[[Category:Continent]] | [[Category:Continent]] | ||
[[Category:World]] | [[Category:World]] | ||
Revision as of 14:49, 11 July 2015
Pan-asian or supra-regional resources related to the Asian continent.
For a list of pages see Category:Asia.
Introduction
Probably the best resource to monitor Asian developments, is Bytes for All, maintained by Frederick Noronha [1] and team.
This list of participants at the Asia Commons conference [2] gives you an idea of who is active in the Commons-related fields in this continent.
The Directory of Democracy Bloggers [3] has a country-by-country overview of sources.
A good context for understanding A2K Access to Knowledge and Access to Health concerns, is this text by Jamie Love on Bilateral Free Trade Agreements and IP
A selection of English-language Asia blogs is made for the nominations of the Best Asian Blog Awards
Also check the Delicious Tag P2P-Asia
The following country pages are available: Burma, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand
The selections below will be chosen in cooperation with Frederick Noronha.
Directory
Digital Divide
Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme [4]
Media
Open/free organizations
List of GNU/Linux user groups across South Asia
Asian Open Source Centre - Asia OSC
Promote open source and free software in Asia.
Advocates and activists
- Abraham, Sunil
- Bajwa, Fouad Riaz
- Chuang, Tyng-Ruey
- Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer
- Liang, Lawrence
- Lin, Jedi
- Noronha, Frederick
- Sankaran, Shankar
Books:
Gan, S., J. Gomez and J. Uwe (eds.) (2004) Asian Cyberactivism: Freedom of Expression and Media Censorship. Bangkok: Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
Essays:
- George, C. (2003) ‘The Internet and the Narrow Tailoring Dilemma for ‘Asian’ Democracies’, Communication Review 6 (3): 247-268.
- Hachigian, N. (2002) ‘The Internet and Power in One-Party East Asian States’, Washington Quarterly 25(3): 41-58.
Places
DIYBio projects in Asia:
- Biomodd (LBA2) Philippines project http://www.biomodd.net/lba2
- HONF http://www.natural-fiber.com
- Singapore DIYbio event http://diybiosingapore.wordpress.com
- Tokyo Hackerspace http://tokyohackerspace.org/
- Tokyo Radiation Levels http://www.facebook.com/Tokyo.Radiation.Levels
- Tokyo Kids& Radiation community http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tokyo-Kids-Radiation/227762067240468