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re:publica 2016 – African Elections and Social Media Shutdowns

Find out more at: https://re-publica.de/16/session/african-elections-and-social-media-shutdowns

Africa has the largest growth of Internet distribution in the world but some governments still have a long way to go in respecting access to the Internet as a democratic right. This panel will discuss how Governments in Uganda, Kenya and Zimbabwe Regulate Online Communication and expose the nature and implications of the legal and sometimes illegal ways governments use to regulate social media and...

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Related topics : internet social media / using social media

re:publica 2013 - Nick Jennings: Autonomous web apps with Sockethub

Find out more at: http://13.re-publica.de/node/6448

As the major social network vendors increase their customer lock-in, and the open social web platform alternatives continue to be dispersed and re-invent the wheel, we're faced with many different, mostly non-interoperable platforms, protocols and APIs to choose from.Developers must spend their time picking and choosing protocols and APIs to integrate into their applications, banking on the increased lock-in of their chosen platforms to...

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Related topics : open source social network application