Tech Stream

Tech Stream 018

19 June 2009

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PNG school children in Gaire, outside Port Moresby, trying out their new OLPC laptops in June last year. Photo from Flickr.

In the Tech Stream this week: Twitter connects the world to the post-election protests in Iran; the latest mobiles on display at CommunicAsia in Singapore; online vigilantes shutdown racism on Facebook; ICANN’s Dr Paul Twomey on the future of internet domain names; the One-Laptop-Per-Child scheme expands in the Pacific; and Bajo from Good Game joins us to chat about Infamous, the latest ‘open-world’ video game.  Listen with the MP3 link above, full details after the jump…

Joining me to speak about CommunicAsia 2009 and the mobile technology on show was Lars Cosh-Ishii from Mobyko in Japan.  CNET Asia have a wrap of the handsets and other cool tech from the expo.

The story about Twitter and Iran was produced by Ashley Hall for our PM program. The full transcript is online. For more on this I recommend the Hack program on Triple J which spoke with some young people in Tehran on Wednesday.  This link has the audio until the 23 June.

And i mentioned the website breakingtweets.com which has a good timeline for the events in Iran this week, or you can check out this special feature on social media and Iran on ABC News Online.

Nick Parkin produced the story on fighting racism on Facebook and Elizabeth Parkinson from Pacific Beat produced the report on the One Laptop Per Child scheme in the Marshall Islands. There is a transcript here.

Dr Paul Twomey is the CEO and president of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assisted Names and Numbers. He was speaking with Antony Funnel from Future Tense.  A full version of the interview is on their website.  I recommend subscribing to their program podcast, its always excellent.

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