Global Podd x Bloggers of Zambia

Open Space Zambia

Free to blog, Free to speak. This is a special podcast serie on freedom of expression in cooperation between Bloggers of Zambia and Global Bar Magazine.

Zambian elections are up-coming. How do new and old laws and regulations affect media and internet coverage of it? With recent examples from Uganda and Tanzania we discuss the recurring crackdown on the freedom to speak on internet.

In a serie of three special episodes we will discuss internet freedom, elections, regulations, manipulations and media ethics with:

  • Richard Mulonga, president of Bloggers of Zambia
  • Fatma Karume, barrister from Tanzania, barred from practicing law in her own country
  • Stella Nyanzi, Ugandan human rights activist, poet, and medical anthropologist
  • Joan Barata, international expert on media and cyber laws

Election and freedom of expression is the first theme to be discussed in a series of podcasts on our basic human rights to express opinions. The Zambian general elections will be held on 12 August and only four months ahead of it a new cyber law was passed in 2021. Some sections in this new law could have serious impacts on the freedom of expressions, according to Richard Malunga. How are new and old laws and regulations affecting media and internet coverage of elections? With recent examples from Uganda and Tanzania Stella Nyanzi and Fatma Karume discuss the recurring crack down on the freedoms during their elections, held in Tanzania in October 2020 and in Uganda in January 2021. Joan Barata, an international expert on media and cyber laws, gives a world view on the basic freedoms we all should enjoy and show how the limits cyber laws passed can have on these rights. Host is David Isaksson, CEO and editor of Global Bar Magazine.

Bloggers of Zambia is an emerging, independent and non-profit enterprise working in Internet Governance and Digital Rights, Media Rights and Freedoms and Online Creative Content Management. Read more here.

The podcast is part of a project called Re-Opening the Space, funded by Creative Force, a program run by the Swedish Institute.

Bloggers of ZambiaGlobal PoddTanzaniaZambia

Music that challenges the power – music that makes people dance, not only with their feet, but also with their minds. This is what Pilato from Zambia and GP/Mstaafrika from Tanzania creates. Listen to them and their new song in episode 105 of Global Podd.  Freedom of expression has been under constant attack in Tanzania and …

Läs mer
Bloggers of ZambiaNyhetZambia

I det zambiska presidentvalet vann oppositionsledaren Hakinde Hichilema över den sittande presidenten Edgar Lungu som erkänt sig besegrad och som nu aktivt bidrar till en bra övergång. Processen är en viktig signal i en region där de totalitära tendenserna växer sig allt starkare. Hakinde Hichilema blir Zambias åttonde president sedan självständigheten 1964. I och med …

Läs mer
Bloggers of ZambiaNyheter i korthetZambia

Under valdagen i Zambia den 12:e augusti har åtminstone delar av landets internettrafik stängts ned. Det rapporterar flera källor både inom och utanför landet. Global Podd har i en serie avsnitt i samarbete med Bloggers of Zambia rapporterat kring och diskuterat hotet mot internet i Tanzania, Uganda och Zambia. I Tanzania och Uganda genomfördes omfattande …

Läs mer
Bloggers of ZambiaGlobal PoddZambia

Vi hör nästan bara talas om Afrika när det uppstår krig, korruption och konflikter. Men vem bryr sig när det faktiskt fungerar ganska så bra? Som i fallet Zambia. Den 12:e augusti går Zambia till presidentval och och allt pekar på ett jämnt resultat. Men också på att valet ser ut att bli lugnt och respektfullt. …

Läs mer

MENU

Back

Global Bar Magazine

Ges ut av
Globala Nyheter Sweden AB
Metropole co-working space
Medborgarplatsen 25
118 72 Stockholm