Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Tech weekly podcast: Evgeny Morozov

There is an international flavor to this week's program. We start
turned off by hearing from Evgeny Morozov, Stanford scholar, who has doubts
whether or not the web can bring democratic change. Despite reports
Noting the importance of Facebook in the current Tunisian protests
and 2009 Twitter revolution in Iran, Yevgeny believes the new
technology could end the contamination far more problems than it solves.
Charles Arthur finds out from this cyber-skeptic, daily tools we of
use for shopping and personalised could end up limiting the
the Internet in authoritarian States.

And even though Aleks is away this week, she still has been busy – speaks to Indian business blogger Nikhil Pahwa from MediaNama.com. He is first
The public servant from her recent trip to the country, and sets the scene,
explains what the digital sector is like in the country, what
There are opportunities for British businesses in India, and how
mobile internet is the next great hope.

Jemima Kiss presents the Show, and there is also this week
technology headlines with news about Steve Jobs
latest health problems, a Facebook flotation, rotate, and how
Nokia does not come to music and more.

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