Tor is a free software of "second-generation onion routing" that enabling its users to communicate anonymously on the Internet. With Tor you can surf, email, IM, and publish websites annonimoiusy.
Tor is one of the software solutions used by Wikileaks.
The AIDC submission to the NCOP on the Secrecy Bill says: "South African’s have a long and proud history of challenging and defying unjust laws. There can be little doubt that if the NCOP fails in its task of ensuring the Constitutionality of the Protection of State Information Act, it will be challenged in the Constitutional Court. If the Constitutional Court does not remedy the Act, we can take heart that a number of internet and encryption technologies will enable those patriotic South Africans who will choose to defy the Act in defence of our democracy."
In our oral submission we will present Tor to illustrate the internet and encryption technologies currently available.
This guide, published by Panos Eastern Africa with support from Deepening Democracy Programme in Uganda in 2011, highlights the role of radio producers and moderators in reaching rural communities, recognising that they too can set agenda for news and debate on radio, thereby positively contributing to the country’s development. It offers a brief insight into the broadcast environment in Uganda, with a focus on radio and community radio in particular. It also guides community broadcasters through the process of choosing formats, producing a radio debate, preparing debaters, and eliciting audience involvement. In addition, the guide provides a brief look into Ugandan media’s legal context to enable readers to understand the confines within which the Ugandan media and specifically the broadcast media operate.
According to the publishers, this guide responds to challenges like poor professional standards among rural journalists, lack of skills and avenues for research, poor investment in professional development on the part of rural media owners, poor remuneration and lack of motivation, all unearthed during implementation of the Rural Radio Debate project. These have been compounded by a relatively restrictive legal regime. It underscores the importance of building a skilled caliber of journalists; research in journalism; and the role journalists, producers, and editors can play in ensuring free flow of information and ideas through debate involving grassroot communities.
ILRIG's Lenny Gentle reflects suggests that the media should facilitate debate on et economic crisis and include marginalized voices of the poor. Active voices of the poor (striking workers and protesting communities). He draws attention to the poor coverage of private sector corruption and price fixing before challenging the amorality of economics as a science and suggesting that an approach to reporting economic must start from the idea that inequality is immoral.
Jane Duncan highlights a case of police brutality against members of an impoverished community that is not being reported by the media. Duncan argues that the media's failure to report on protests - especially the underlying causes of the protests - is leading to a situtation where people believe the only way to be heard is to attack ANC and local government offices.
Nic Dawes, Editor in Chief of the Mail & Guardian concedes that the media is not very good at covering the SA economy: There is a failure of commitment and imagination. Newsrooms are captured by 'expert opinion' - they do not have the capacity to analyze economic data. There is failure to report on the lived experiences of poverty in the country. Dawes suggests that one version of the story goes like this: the African National Congress made a break with its progressive socialist history that left the poor worse off than under apartheid. The other version of the same story goes something like this: Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel backed by Thabo Mbeki abandoned the ideological shibboleths of the ruling party and replaced them with pragmatism and basic economics, dramatically reducing government debt and creating the fiscal space for expanded public spending. Dawes argues at neither of these narratives adequately capture the complexity of South Africa's economic challenges.
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This guide, published by Panos Eastern Africa with support from Deepening Democracy Programme in Uganda in 2011, highlights the role of radio producers and moderators in reaching rural communities, recognising that they too can set agenda for news and debate on radio, thereby positively contributing to the country’s development. It offers a brief insight into the broadcast environment in Uganda, with a focus on radio and community radio in particular. It also guides community broadcasters through the process of choosing formats, producing a radio debate, preparing debaters, and eliciting audience involvement. In addition, the guide provides a brief look into Ugandan media’s legal context to enable readers to understand the confines within which the Ugandan media and specifically the broadcast media operate.
Jane Duncan highlights a case of police brutality against members of an impoverished community that is not being reported by the media. Duncan argues that the media's failure to report on protests - especially the underlying causes of the protests - is leading to a situtation where people believe the only way to be heard is to attack ANC and local government offices.
Nic Dawes, Editor in Chief of the Mail & Guardian concedes that the media is not very good at covering the SA economy: There is a failure of commitment and imagination. Newsrooms are captured by 'expert opinion' - they do not have the capacity to analyze economic data. There is failure to report on the lived experiences of poverty in the country. Dawes suggests that one version of the story goes like this: the African National Congress made a break with its progressive socialist history that left the poor worse off than under apartheid. The other version of the same story goes something like this: Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel backed by Thabo Mbeki abandoned the ideological shibboleths of the ruling party and replaced them with pragmatism and basic economics, dramatically reducing government debt and creating the fiscal space for expanded public spending. Dawes argues at neither of these narratives adequately capture the complexity of South Africa's economic challenges.
