| India: Are e-Governance initiatives delivering on transparency and accountability?
 In India, government agencies are embracing social media and other information and communication technology (ICT) platforms to engage citizens, optimize service delivery and reassure the public with respect to the government's transparency and accountability. But what has been the true impact of these initiatives? >>Read more |
| Russia: Reactions to the "Buckwheat Panic"
 The article reviews the blogosphere's response to the "buckwheat panic" that emerged due to the rising prices of this type of cereals. >>Read more |
| Barbados: Six robbed; left to die in fire
 Barbados remains shell shocked today as it struggles with the reality that what local media are calling "a scene straight out of the drama series CSI" could happen in the relatively peaceful island. What appears to have started as a robbery turned into a murder scene as the suspects reportedly set the building ablaze before fleeing, leaving the victims trapped inside. >>Read more |
| Africa: Africans Share Childhood Memories Online
That African Girl is a blog with a series of posts written by Africans around the world about their childhood. It is a blog about growing up in an African family and learning to live in two worlds. The bloggers sharing their memories have lived both in Africa and the West. >>Read more
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| China: Tian Xi Deserves Happiness
 23-year-old Tian Xi is an AIDS patient who was inflected with HIV in 1996 upon receiving a blood transmission in a hospital in Xincai county, Henan province. >>Read more
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