Turkmenistan
ONI Blog: Neither Here Nor There: Turkmenistan’s Digital Doldrums
Turkmenistan is slowly emerging from decades of darkness. President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov has vowed to modernize the country by encouraging the uptake of new technology for economic development and more efficient governance. Hundreds of thousands of Turkmen citizens are now online. However, the...
- Posted on 02/Jan/2013; tagged in Turkmenistan, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Publications
Report: Neither Here Nor There: Turkmenistan’s Digital Doldrums
Turkmenistan is slowly emerging from decades of darkness. President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov has vowed to modernize the country by encouraging the uptake of new technology for economic development and more efficient governance. Hundreds of thousands of Turkmen citizens are now online. However, the...
- Posted on 02/Jan/2013; tagged in Turkmenistan, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Publications, Political filtering
ONI Blog: Turkmenistan Blocking YouTube and Livejournal
This post is a translation from the original Russian article at Lenta.ru.
Turkmenistan blocked access to YouTube video services and service for bloggers, LiveJournal, says Ferghana.Ru news agency.
According to the agency, the decision adopted state company "Turkmen", which is the only provider...
- Posted on 27/Dec/2009; tagged in Turkmenistan, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Social filtering
ONI Blog: Internet cafes open in Turkmenistan
Just days after the inauguration of President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Turkmenistan saw the opening of its first Internet cafes. While the cafes are few in number and high in hourly cost, they appear to offer unfiltered and unmonitored public access...
- Posted on 18/Feb/2007; tagged in Turkmenistan, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
