Democracy calls, who answers?

By far the most significant communications innovations of recent years, the mobile Internet and mobile applications have eclipsed the Internet, television, newspapers and radio as the world’s most popular way to access news, data and information. More than half the global population now pays to access information through services and applications on cellphones. Social impact […]

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Voices emerge from conflict in Georgia; Internet sites silenced

Amid the conflict near the Black Sea, come new voices describing the situation on the ground. WordPress has a posted a page with blogs about South Ossetia. On Global Voices, several bloggers describe life in Tbilisi over the past few days. PRI’s The World has produced an excellent background page that explains the conflict in […]

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