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April 10, 2005
Internet use in Vietnam
Dave Weinberger writes in his blog about a talk at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society by Tuan Nguyen, who founded the Vietnamese Internet service provider Vietnam Net (English version here).
The site now has 1.5M viewers/day. (Vietnam's population is 85M. About 5M people in Vietnam are on the Internet. About 6M have mobile phones.) The site has a newspaper license which enables its reporters to go anywhere and talk with anyone. The leaders of the party provide "guidelines" rather than ruling particular stories in or out. Mr. Nguyen also talks about some ways in which these talks and his site's actions have affected government policy.
Posted by oren at April 10, 2005 09:37 PM
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