Post: Connect your Rights! Internet Rights are Human Rights.

The post "Connect your Rights! Internet Rights are Human Rights. - Global Voices Advocacy" includes the following contribution from Bidi Bala - of Zittnet - the Internet provider on which the Dadamac UK-Nigeria connection depends. ( Zittnet http://www.dadamac.net/projects/business-sme-livelihoods/zittnet-rural-connectivity-ongoing )

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Bidi Bala from Fantsuam in Nigeria highlighted that while access issues remained, especially in rural areas, mobile GSM was enabling more access than telecentres. With access comes demand for political participation and signs are emerging of the use of ICTs to document human rights violations, in some cases leading to arrests of perpetrators.

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Connect your Rights! Internet Rights are Human Rights. - Global Voices Advocacy September 28, 2011