Internet activism and resources
Websites/Multiple Documents
| Title: | | Burma Riders |
| Date of publication: | | 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | Burmariders ist eine Hilfsaktion mit interaktiver Website und dem Ziel, auf die Notsituation der Menschen entlang der thailändisch-burmesischen Grenze aufmerksam zu machen. Die Burmariders Florian Fischer und Florian Niethammer fuhren ab 19.06. 2007 insgesamt 1.200 Kilometer mit Fahrrädern im unwegsamen Gebiet entlang der thai-burmesischen Grenze. Sie besuchten in rund vier Wochen sieben Flüchtlingslager. Das Team sammelte Informationen, Stimmen und Eindrücke unter den Flüchtlingen und berichtete per Webcast: Aktuelle Filmberichte wurden schon Minuten später im Internet veröffentlicht.
Ethnische Minderheiten; Karen;
Ride along the thai-burmese border; ethnic minorities; humanitarian situation; political situation in Burma; refugees in Thailand; Karen |
| Language: | | German, Deutsch |
| Source/publisher: | | Burma Riders |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 August 2007 |
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| Title: | | All Burma I.T Students' Union - ABITSU |
| Description/subject: | | "ABITSF - All Burma I.T Students' Front formed in 1998. Reformed ABITSF as ABITSU in December 2005 to have better productive strategy for new generation students from Burma. There are more than 50 I.T skilled personnel including 1988 generation students and new generation students.
ABITSU is to represent all the Burmese I.T Students who are struggling for Freedom and Human Rights within Burma, to stand against the Burmese Military Regime and remove the Military Dictatorship system, to generate more I.T skilled personnel and build the infrastructure for a future democratic government of Burma, to obtain full freedom on the International Information High Way, and to get equal rights and opportunities for every nationality in Burma. Now, ABITSU is moving forward in various sectors collaboration with other democratic organizations in order to achieve our goals by providing following activities.
Currently, we are engaging in the following activities:
1. Information and Communication Technology Supports
2. Network Solutions
3. I.T Training and Curriculum Development
4. Website & Software Development
5. Cyber Campaign
6. Community Services
Any I.T personnel who would like to contribute the knowledge and share
your expertise to our Union, please feel free to join us and to contact us" |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | ABITSU |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 02 September 2006 |
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| Title: | | bordermedia |
| Description/subject: | | About bordermedia:
bordermedia is a media organisation set up with the aim of catering for the growing need for IT development, training and consultancy for organisations and individuals working along the Thailand/Burma border...
Having spent some time in 2005 and 2006 working on various, mainly internet-related projects in and around the town of Mae Sot in Thailand, a group of IT professionals from Australia and the UK decided to form an organisation with the aim of addressing this need...
web design / web development
computer training
IT consultancy
project scoping
funding proposals
photography & multi-media...
Whether you are an individual, a small grass-roots organisation or an established international Non Government Organisation (NGO), the friendly team at bordermedia will be happy to help you...
From straight-forward advice on what strategy to pursue with your website & helping you to write up your funding proposal, right through to planning, developing and implementing complex database-driven web applications, or multi-media projects, don't be afraid to get in touch..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | bordermedia |
| Format/size: | | html, pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 01 September 2006 |
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| Title: | | myanmarisp.com နည္းပညာနွင့္ ျမန္မာ့ ကြန္ရက္ ေမာ္ကြန္းတိုက္ |
| Description/subject: | | BIT ေပၚေပါက္လာပုံ အက်ဉ္း.............
က်ေနာ္တို့ ျမန္မာ့ သတင္း ဆက္သြယ္ေရး နည္းပညာ အဖြဲ့ (Burma Information Technology Team - BIT) ဟာ အိန္ဒိယနိုင္ငံမွာ ခိုလွုံေနျကတဲ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီနဲ့ လြတ္လပ္မွုကို ျမတ္နိုးတဲ့ လူငယ္ တစုနဲ့ စုဖြဲ့ထားတဲ့ အဖြဲ့ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ..... က်ေနာ္တို့ တတြေဟာ လူမ်ိုး အကြဲကြဲ အျပားျပား၊ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ အမ်ိုးမ်ိုး၊ ျဖတ္သန္းမွု အဖုံဖုံနဲ့ ေနရပ္ အစုံစုံတြေ ကေန ျမန္မာ့ ကြန္ပ်ူတာ နည္းပညာ (ICT) ဖြံ့ျဖိုး တိုးတက္ေရး၊ လြတ္လပ္ေရးနဲ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရး ဆိုတဲ့ တူညီတဲ့ ဦးတည္ခ်က္တြေ အေပၚမွာ စုစည္း မိခဲ့ျကတဲ့ လူငယ္ တစုပါ။ က်ေနာ္တို့ဟာ ၂၀၀၂ ခုနွစ္၊ နွစ္ဆန္းပိုင္းမွာ Burma Project/ Southeast Asia Initiative - OSI ရဲ့ အေထာက္အပံ့နဲ့ အိႏၵိယနိုင္ငံ၊ ကာနာတကာ ျပည္နယ္၊ ဘန္ဂလိုးျမိဳ႔က MAHITI Infotech Pvt. Ltd. မွာ ကြန္ပ်ဳတာ ICT ပညာရပ္ကို ၆ လျကာ ေလ့လာ ဆည္းပူး သင့္ယူခြင့္ ရခဲ့ျကတယ္။
ဒီလိုနဲ့ ကြန္ပ်ဳတာ ICT... သင္တန္းကို ေအာင္ေအာင္ျမင္ျမင္ ျပီးျပီးတဲ့ ေနာက္မွာ၊ က်ေနာ္တို့ တေတြဟာ Burma Project/ Southeast Asia Initiative - OSI ရဲ့ အေထာက္အပံ့နဲ့ပဲ BIT ကို ဖြဲ့ခဲ့ျကပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို့ဟာ လြတ္လပ္ျပီး တရားမ်ွတတဲ့၊ တိုင္းရင္းသား လူမ်ိုးေပါင္းစုံရဲ့ တန္းတူ အခြင့္အေရးကို အာမခံနိုင္တဲ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီ နိုင္ငံေတာ္သစ္ျကီး ေပၚေပါက္လာေရးကို ရည္မွန္းျပီး၊ က်ေနာ္တို့ ဝါသနာ ပါတဲ့ နည္းလမ္းေတြနဲ့ သတင္း ဆက္သြယ္ေရး နည္းပညာ ဖြံ့ျဖိုး တိုးတက္ေရးနဲ့ စစ္အာဏာရွင္ ဆန့္က်င္ေရးကို တစိုက္မတ္မတ္ ဦးတည္ လုပ္ေဆာင္မယ္လို့ အခိုင္အမာ ဆုံးျဖတ္ထားတဲ့ လူငယ္တစု ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို့ အေနနဲ့ အနာဂတ္ ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ ျမန္မာ့ လူ့ေဘာင္မွာ နည္းပညာ အဆင့္အတန္း ဖြံ့ျဖိုး တိုးတက္ေရးကို ရည္ရြယ္ျပီး၊ ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပမွာ ရွိတဲ့ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသူ နိုင္ငံသားေတြ၊ ဒီမိုကေရစီနဲ့ တိုင္းရင္သား ေတာ္လွန္ေရး အဖြဲ့အစည္းေတြ၊ လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ လူမွဳဝန္ထမ္း အဖြဲ့အစည္းေတြ စတဲ့ လြတ္လပ္မွုနဲ့ ကြန္ပ်ဳတာ နည္းပညာကို ျမတ္နိုး ခုံမင္ျကတဲ့ လူပုဂၢိဳလ္၊ အဖြဲ႔ အစည္းေတြကို က်ေနာ္တို႔ သိျမင္ နားလည္ခဲ့တဲ့ ကြန္ပ်ဳတာ သတင္း ဆက္သြယ္ေရး နည္းပညာနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ အသိအျမင္ ေတြကို မ်ွေဝ ေပးသြားဖို့ ရည္ရြယ္ျပီး ဖြဲ့စည္း ခဲ့ျကတာလည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။... ဒါတင္ မကေသးပါဘူး၊ က်ေနာ္တို့ အေနနဲ့ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံမွာ စစ္အာဏာရွင္ စနစ္ ဖ်က္သိမ္းေရး၊ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ထြန္းကားေရးနဲ့ စစ္မွန္တဲ့ ဖက္ဒရယ္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ေပၚထြန္းေရး အတြက္ အေထာက္အကူနဲ့ အားမာန္ ျဖစ္ေစမယ့္ သတင္းေတြ၊ ေဆာင္းပါးေတြ၊ ရသ စာစုေတြ၊ ဝတ္တုတိုေတြ၊ ကဗ်ာေတြ၊ ျမန္မာ အီးဘြတ္ေတြ (Burmese/ Myanmar eBooks) စတာတြေကိုလည္း အက်ယ္ျပန့္ဆုံးနဲ့ အထိေရာက္ဆုံး ျဖန့္ေဝသြားဖို့ ရည္ရြယ္ထားပါတယ္။
က်ေနာ္တို့ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ေတြကေတာ့၊
(၁) ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳး တိုးတက္ေရး မွာ ေဆာင္ရြက္ျက မယ့္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသား လူငယ္ေတြ အတြက္ သတင္း ဆက္သြယ္ေရး နည္းပညာ (ICT) အရည္အေသြးနဲ႔ က်ြမ္းက်င္မွုေတြ ျမင့္မား လာေစဖို့။
(၂) ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံေတာ္ တည္ေဆာက္ခ်ိန္မွာ အစိုးရေတြ၊ လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ လူမွု အဖြဲ့အစည္း ေတြရဲ့ လုပ္ငန္းေတြကို လက္ေတြ႔နဲ့ ဆိုင္တဲ့ သတင္း ဆက္သြယ္ေရး နည္းပညာ (ICT) လုပ္ငန္းေတြနဲ့ ပံ့ပိုး ကူညီ ျမွင့္တင္ သြားနိုင္ဖို့။
(၃) သတင္း ဆက္သြယ္ေရး နည္းပညာ (ICT) နဲ့ ဆိုင္တဲ့ တဦးခ်င္း စြမ္းေဆာင္ရည္၊ လုပ္ငန္းခြင္နဲ့ အစုအဖြဲ့ အလိုက္ က်ြမ္းက်င္မွု စတာေတြကို လုပ္ေဆာင္တဲ့ နည္းလမ္းေတြနဲ့ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံနဲ့ အိမ္နီးခ်င္း နိုင္ငံေတြ အျကား နည္းပညာ ကြာဟမွုကို ေလ်ာ့က် သြားေစဖို့။
(၄) ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပမွာရွိတဲ့ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသားေတြ အျကား သတင္း ဆက္သြယ္ေရး နည္းပညာ (ICT) ေတြ ျပန့္ပြား လာဖို့။
ဒါေတြကို က်ေနာ္တို့ စြမ္းေဆာင္ နိုင္သေလာက္ မျခြင္းမခ်န္ ျကိုးစား အားထုတ္ သြားမွာ ျဖစ္ပါေၾကာင္း။
ကတိသစၥာျဖင့္
ျမန္မာ့ သတင္း ဆက္သြယ္ေရး နည္းပညာ အဖြဲ့ (မသနဖ)
(Burma Information Technology Team, BIT) |
| Language: | | English/Burmese |
| Source/publisher: | | Burma Information Technology Team, BIT |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 09 August 2012 |
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Individual Documents
| Title: | | Citizen Journalism in Burma and the Legacy of Graham Spry |
| Date of publication: | | 2010 |
| Description/subject: | | Abstract: "This report explores issues arising from the 2009 Graham Spry Memorial events
on the subject of citizen journalism in Burma, staging an encounter between aspects of the
work of Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) and Graham Spry’s legacy as a politically-engaged
intellectual and lobbyist. I discuss the role of DVB as a “citizen journalism” network embedded
in a “space of flows.” Particular emphasis is placed on the organization’s judicious use of “old”
and “new” media in the struggle for democracy in Burma. The report also takes up Nancy
Fraser’s notion of “scales of justice” to discuss the power of media flows in a transnational public
sphere and the limits of citizen journalism within pro-democracy movements in autocratic
regimes such as that of Burma. I conclude with a discussion of the stakes of representation and
inclusion, notably for questions of gender and ethnic Keywords: Citizen journalism; Media and democracy; Transnational public sphere;
Democratic Voice of Burma; Graham Spry.....Résumé: "Dans ce rapport, j’explore des questions soulevées lors de la Conférence
commémorative Spry de 2009 sur le journalisme citoyen en Birmanie, rapprochant certains
aspects du travail de Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) à l’héritage légué par Graham Spry
dans son rôle d’intellectuel et lobbyiste engagé. Je présente la fonction de DVB d’assurer un
réseau de journalistes citoyens situés dans un « espace des flux ». Ce faisant, je mets un
accent particulier sur l’utilisation judicieuse des nouveaux médias et des médias
traditionnels faite par DVB dans la lutte pour la démocratie en Birmanie. Je reprends aussi
l’idée de « balance de la justice » développée par Nancy Fraser afin de discuter du pouvoir
des flux médiatiques dans une sphère publique transnationale ainsi que des limites du
journalisme citoyen dans le cadre de mouvements démocratiques assujettis à des régimes
autocratiques comme celui de la Birmanie. Je conclus par un examen des enjeux de la
représentation et de l’inclusion, notamment par rapport aux questions de sexe, genre et
diversité ethnique."
Mots clés: Journalisme citoyen; Médias et démocratie; Sphère publique transnationale;
Democratic Voice of Burma; Graham Spry |
| Author/creator: | | Julianne Pidduck |
| Language: | | English, French, Francais |
| Source/publisher: | | Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol 35 (3) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (154K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2386/2188 |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 February 2011 |
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| Title: | | New media and Burmese diaspora identities in New Zealand |
| Date of publication: | | November 2009 |
| Description/subject: | | Abstract:
"This study examines ways in which Burmese diasporic identities are formed and maintained, and
the importance of new media in this process. Political oppression in Burma, the experience of
exile and the importance of opposition movements in the borderlands make the Burmese
diaspora a unique and complex group. This study used tapoetethakot, an indigenous Karen
research methodology, to interact with fourteen participants in Auckland, exploring aspects of
new media use and identity maintenance.
Common among all participants was a twin desire to share stories of suffering and to have that
pain recognised. This suffering is an important part of refugee identity and is also linked with
resistance against assimilation in New Zealand. Instead, participants try and maintain their
language and cultural practices, with the intent of returning to a democratic Burma in the future.
New media supports these processes, by providing participants with access to opposition media
reports of human rights abuses and suffering, through making cultural and linguistic artifacts
accessible and through providing an easy means of communication with friends and family in
Burma and the borderlands." |
| Author/creator: | | Naw Violet Cho |
| Language: | | English (main text); Interviews (English, Karen, Burmese) |
| Source/publisher: | | School of Communication Studies Auckland University of Technology |
| Format/size: | | pdf (582K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 24 January 2011 |
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| Title: | | Technology in the borderlands |
| Date of publication: | | 22 April 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | Displaced Karen in the borderlands
are taking advantage of
new technology not only to
maintain connections with their
homeland but also to inform
the international community
of human rights violations. |
| Author/creator: | | Rachel Sharples |
| Language: | | English, Burmese |
| Source/publisher: | | "Forced Migration Review" No. 30 |
| Format/size: | | pdf (Burmese, 233K; English, 372K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/FMR30Burmese/24.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 30 November 2008 |
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| Title: | | Burma Diaspora |
| Date of publication: | | 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | Burma Diaspora ist ein Dokumentar-Spielfilm, der 2005 während eines 6-monatigen Aufenthaltes in den Karen-Gebieten realisiert wurde. Die Seite enthält viele Bilder, Videos und Hintergrundinformationen zu der Situation der Karen; documentary on the situation of the Karen; the site contains many pictures, videos and background information; |
| Language: | | German, Deutsch |
| Format/size: | | Html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 08 May 2008 |
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| Title: | | 'External' Aspects of Self-Determination Movements in Burma |
| Date of publication: | | February 2003 |
| Description/subject: | | Abstract: "Based on secondary resources and long term anthropological field research, this paper explores some of the 'external' factors involved in the pro-democracy and ethnic struggles for self-determination currently being experienced in Burma. The analysis draws in cultural, economic and political aspects to demonstrate that a number of macro- and micro-level external or external-origin influences are at play, at a number of different 'inside', 'outside' and marginal sites. The paper argues in particular that 'cultural' factors such as computer-mediated communication and contacts with outsiders when living in exile, serve as means by which real, virtual and imaginary connections are drawn between these different sites and the actors who inhabit them. In the context of Burma, this paper thus presents a glimpse into this complexity of origin and substance of external influences, of interactions between the external and the internal, and of the multidirectional pathways along which they operate. After an introductory overview, it does so by first reviewing some pertinent macro-political and macro-economic external factors, including international views and strategic interests. The paper then focuses on micro-level social and cultural issues, examining aspects of new media as utilised by the Burmese exile community and international activists. External influences on exiled communities living in the margins on the Thai-Burma border (characterised by the paper as neither 'inside' nor 'outside' proper), including Christianity and foreign non-governmental organisations, are then explored. The paper concludes that inside views, reactions and experiences of outside influences are presently just as important in determining outcomes as are the outside influences themselves." |
| Author/creator: | | Sandra Dudley |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Queen Elizabeth House |
| Format/size: | | pdf (123K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://ideas.repec.org/p/qeh/qehwps/qehwps94.html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 08 July 2010 |
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| Title: | | The Impact of the Internet on Myanmar |
| Date of publication: | | 2000 |
| Description/subject: | | In the present paper, I explore how the Internet has affected the flow of information between in and outside Myanmar (Burma). I show that there is a strong difference between the way information was presented before and after the introduction of the World Wide Web...
I examine two political events in Myanmar connected to student uprisings, in the hope of documenting how the Internet - as an easily researched symbol of modern communications - may be affecting the political strategies of one of the last isolated states. |
| Author/creator: | | Viola Krebs |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | First Monday |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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