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Another glasnost and the other rebel
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Just two decades it took to happen. Through out the globe, no other revolution put equal impact straight off, like Internet did, undoubtedly. Even in the impoverished Africa or developing Asia ICT changed the means of struggle, means of achieving goals.

One of my Zimbabwean journalist friends, Saru, explains how they struggle to publish reports. She was a reporter for an English daily, though unfortunately, the government army collapsed their office and they lost jobs. To fight this unjust she started writing for Internet magazine. Started bloging and filing stories for different websites.
“That worked well”, she says, “people of Zimbabwe use to read those sites and get informed.”
-Are they making decisions to take effective steps?
-I don’t know, really. But the thin hope-brook still is flowing.

If not in Zimbabwe, in other places, I know, how political decision makers turned alert. The fear of media is the fear of God, now. In countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and India media played crucial role in decision-making and is playing till today.

Recently, we have seen, during General Musarraf’s regime, emergency was declared to trim the power of media in Pakistan. All major news channels were forced to down shutter. Newspapers, in editorial contents, were denied liberty. The freedom of speech too was withdrawn. But it is the web media, which revealed all mess before the whole world and forced them to retreat. In Bangladesh recently, a story of human right violation to a journalist popped up through Internet. Whole world excoriate the crime.

Is this enough? Should we now ‘sit on the sty of contentment’ and die non-productive, because few deprived got justice out of it or urban life became simpler? If the answer is no, then jump in and make the move effective.

Your emotions, my friends, are global. Pain, sorrow or pleasure neither boundary nor dogma can cage. So unleash folded wings, start flying now. Express your self. Do what ever you wish to. Post your voice, video clips or scribbles. May be someone eagerly listening you as you are listening to him or her.

But, my question is…

Do this society can afford this rise? Especially when, still it is divided with poverty and unemployment. We, still, cannot provide our children fresh water, twice-a-day meal and not even safe air to inhale. The sulphur of violence is blowing in the wind. Basic education, in most of the poor countries, is not prime priority, to children, as social security is denied. People say digital divide should be figured out.

You can aspire for a change, perhaps for a specific change. But you don’t know how. Who is responsible to implement the solution? Should, United Nations or the regional authority or civil society agents, take part in it? Are the steps UN has taken sufficient? Civil society agents (NGOs), in some cases, are too much interested about their own profits. Then who, who can obliterate the disparity and how, I don’t think state authority will be interested to give people chance to sting them.

Big multinational corporate houses can come forward and shoulder the responsibility. If they refuse from the point of development view, why not from their own standpoint of profit and usability, as in India and China, we observed, telecom companies made it possible, to some extent.

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