If you are an Arabic speaker and on Twitter, you’ve probably come across the increasing demands from the Arabic-speaking community in Qatar and the Arab world for Twitter to start supporting Arabic hashtags. With the #letstweetinarabic movement going strong in Qatar and spreading in other Arab countries, Twitter is increasingly becoming a hub for quality [...]
11 Jul
Guest blogger Amy Hollinsworth is a rising senior at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada majoring in Communication Studies. Amy is currently a summer intern at ictQATAR. Tired of all the mainstream pop and want to discover some amazing, independent music. Well buy into the hype and jump into Hype Machine. I have been using [...]
13 Dec
ictQATAR’s Section Manager on Numbering, Interconnection and Internet Domains, Mohamed Al-Bashir, shares his insight on how government can and are taking advantage of new media to serve their constituents. Visit Mohamed’s blog! Public service organizations around the world are jumping on the new media and web 2.0 bandwagon— engaging citizens through social networks, blogging, developing [...]
26 Sep
If you missed it, last week Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Information and Culture announced that it is planning to require all web publishers and online media in the country to register with the government, and yes, this includes bloggers. This is some very disconcerting news for me. A lot of what I have been posting [...]
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26 Jul