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An organisation based in Islamabad, Pakistan is using radio as a medium for increasing the visibility of women issues and including womens voices in policy making on water issues in their country. The Uks Foundation, together with Panos South Asia, has created a series of 15-minute programmes that document the experiences of women in relation to water management and access in their communities.

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Local media and community radio stations in Yogyakarta City, while severely affected by the 27 May 2006 earthquake in Indonesia, have begun to respond to relief and assistance efforts and support national and
international relief operations. Yogyakarta and its nearby villages were severely affected by the quake that claimed the lives of at least 6,000 people and rendered some 600,000 homeless.

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Call for Papers for a special issue 'Socio-technical Dynamics in the Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Social World' in the journal

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Get serious about helping children's views be heard!

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Media practitioners and activists in the Asian region met to discuss issues of human rights, online political expression and activism, and Internet laws and media censorship in the Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace: A Conference of Asian Bloggers, Podcasters and Online Media conference on 19-21 April 2006 at the Asian Institute of Management Conference Center, Makati City, Philippines.

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Bloggers, the new breed of agents for freedom of expression convene recently at the iBlog2: Blogging Conference on 18 April 2006 at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. Bloggers from all over the country shared experiences and expertise on blogging, discussed the legal aspects of online publishing, and highlighted the status of freedom of expression and online communications. iBLog2 was also an opportunity for many of the countrys bloggers to meet face-to-face instead of conducting exchanges online.