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From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street protests, this year has been full of political turmoil and unrest--and if there's one recurring trend we've noticed, it's that the most timely, powerful coverage doesn't come from a cable news channel, but from normal people on the ground floor.

Complete transcription of Obama & Yudhoyono join press conference. In his speech, Obama mentioned about Comprehensive Partnership between the United States and Indonesia, which focus on 3 key areas: - trade and investment and commercial relationships - partnerships between people - political and security cooperation. His speech also covers: Indonesia become ASEAN leader 2011, East Asia Summit, human rights, Burma, climate change, etc. which are very much related to our DSN project…

Ignore the politics in this article and look at how ASEAN is struggling to bring youth from different countries together. Dr. Madanmohan Rao's social media concept seems like a good one, and along the lines of my own ideas for a youth news network.

Rick Falkvinge gives the telcos 20 years of life left before it is all over. He also says that the attitude of the telcos is harming growth on the internet.But he predicts three changes that will, in his view, kill them off within a generation: The shift to mobile handsets, the second is the political pressure to make internet connectivity a basic urban utility, and the third is the handsets' increasing ability to place voice calls directly over the internet, bypassing the telco network altogether. Is a mandate for a publicly-owned network the solution? -wouldn't that be something!

Uganda's draconian proposed laws on homosexuality may have been shelved thanks to a social media campaign pressurizing the government.