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Bloggers and mobile phone users have provided some of the most immediate, visceral accounts of the past month's pro-democracy protests in Myanmar (formerly Burma). "Images of saffron-robed monks leading throngs of people along the streets of Rangoon have been seeping out of a country famed for its totalitarian regime and repressive control of information," wrote Stephanie Holmes for The BBC on Wednesday, September 26. "The pictures are sometimes grainy and the video footage shaky - captured...

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Over at MobileActive.org, Katrin Verclas has launched a series of articles on mobile phones in economic development, with a survey of the latest issue of BusinessWeek, which features "interesting sumamries of the state of affairs in mobiles in economic development. This apparently just to make it easy for us to get MobileActives around the world up to speed!" Not to mention Worldchanging readers new to the tremendous adoption rates of mobile phones around the world, and how they're...

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