Session 1: Why the Internet is important to Asians

THE following speakers addressed the participants during the first session:

• Ying Chan, director of the Journalism and Media Studies Center at the University of Hong Kong (slides, audio, video)
  Asian Internet usage/access vis-à-vis trends restrictions on traditional media; Profiles, projections in Internet usage in Asia (from South Asia to Southeast Asia and China); The Internet as a primary source of news and info in Asia

• Kunda Dixit, publisher of Nepali Times (slides, audio, video)
  Nepal: How the Internet keeps a nation from disappearing

• Sein Win, Mizzima.com (slides, audio, video)
  Skyping in Burma and why governments tolerate cracks in the firewall

For additional information, please visit the conference blog at Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace, or see the latest posts by blogger-participants through Technorati and Google Blog Search.