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Let’s talk about sex baby (in Azerbaijan)
I’m writing about gender inequality in Azerbaijan (as usual) and was reminded about attitudes toward sex in the Caucasus. I had read some reports a few years back that looked at adolescent sex in the Caucasus countries, but thought that I’d summarize some of the interesting findings here and contextualize with my own observations. The…
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Social networking site use in Azerbaijan
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Technology Inequality in Azerbaijan
Link to full document. While politicians love to cite percentage of Internet users as a meaningful metric for Internet development, this may not be the case. In this example from late 2011 in Azerbaijan, we use that the sociodemographic differences between those that do not know what the Internet is, those who never use the…
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Azerbaijan enjoys internet freedom, president says
Azerbaijan enjoys internet freedom, president says BBC Monitoring International Reports – Tuesday, November 6, 2012 Excerpt from report by private Azerbaijani news agency Turan 6 November: President Ilham Aliyev has welcomed the participants in the Seventh Annual Internet Governance Forum under way in Baku [where the statement was apparently read out]. The forum has been…
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Journalist mulls challenges of developing internet media in Azerbaijan
Journalist mulls challenges of developing internet media in Azerbaijan BBC Monitoring International Reports – Tuesday, November 6, 2012 Azerbaijan is following the example of influential international media agencies and is increasingly moving its news content to the Internet , the Day.az website quoted Aynur Qasimova, head of the English service of the Trend news agency,…
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Ali Abbasov: There is need for joint struggle to prevent cyber crime
Azeri-Press News Agency ( Azerbaijan ) – Tuesday, November 6, 2012 Nijat Mustafayev – APA-ECONOMICS. There is need for joint struggle to provide security in internet space and prevent cyber crime, Minister of Communications and IT Ali Abbasov said during his speech at VII Internet Governance Forum in Baku. The Minister spoke about rapid development…
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Adventures at IGF
I’m in Azerbaijan right now for the Internet Governance Forum. Specifically I’m presenting a paper (with Sarah Kendzior and Deen Freelon) at GigaNet and then defending a project at the Freedom House IGF Incubator. Baku is beautiful and I’m hoping for some great adventures!
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Azerbaijani government steps up its digital game
Azeri opposition daily links new internet project to presidential election BBC Monitoring International Reports – Sunday, September 30, 2012 An influential Azerbaijani opposition newspaper has linked the launch of a new social networking website, www.butalife.com, to the 2013 presidential election. The owner of the website is Ilham Abduyev, brother-in-law of powerful Azerbaijani Emergencies Minister Kamaladdin…
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Gender equality in Azerbaijan
Here are the results of analysis about attitudes toward gender issues in Azerbaijan. The upper left graph about women and work is particularly interesting. Women and men tend to agree on these items, except that men are more likely to believe that university education is more important for a boy than a girl and men…