Blogger Conference in China

The Chinese Blogger Conference had its second annual meeting last weekend, and Berkman fellow Rebecca MacKinnon was in attendance for its discussions. While the Chinese government has continued to tighten the regulations for the internet to allow for censorship and filtering of information, the many Chinese Blogger Conference participants on hand did not lose sight of the possibilities still available to them via new, emerging or outstanding technologies.  Rebecca writes:

"Foreign participants could not help but come away being impressed by the creativity, optimism, and idealism of China's Internet generation. The people in this room are not socially disruptive revolutionaries. They are people who would like to get on with the business of finding ways to use the Internet to improve people's lives.  To the extent that politics won't prevent them from doing so, they would prefer not to be involved with politics."

At her blog you can read the rest of her take on the conference and the values and ideas exchanged therein.

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