TEDxSydney - Brett Solomon - Citizen Journalism and the Democratisation of News Coverage

Brett Solomon is the co-founder and Executive Director of Accessnow.org - a new global movement for digital freedom. Before that he was the Campaign Director at Avaaz.org, and before that the first Executive Director of GetUp! an Australian grass roots political organisation with over 300,000 members.

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TEDxSydney 2010 was organised by General Thinking and took place on Saturday 22 May 2010 at CarriageWorks. Almost 2,000 people enjoyed the day, over 700 in the theatre and the rest via big screen simulcast in The Forum. It was a grand day.

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[SYLBM]

lol, agreed

[Arthur Huxley]

It's quite painful

[VideoGameCoupons]

This is exactly what i was looking for. thank you for this.

[SYLBM]

dramatic pause much?

[Andrew Pham]

reminds me of the short talk in canada of apathy and democratisation of processes in the public arena

[jis57y]

Well done to all people in Australia who contributed to the internet filter bill being scrapped till 2012! Well done to all politicians, activists, people donating and working for this!

Just 1 thing: Brett says people in Iran cannot get a gmail account. That's strange because my boyfriend's sister who lives in Iran has a gmail account, and there were no qualms about getting one, or any trouble.

Also, based on knowing many Iranians, they would be much savvier with circumventions than Australians.