Monday, April 14, 2008

Malaysian Blogggers in Singapore Round Table



What was the role of Internet and bloggers in the recent 12th Malaysian general Election?
That seemed to be the flavour of the day, when the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew school of Public Policy invited Malaysian bloggers to their facilities in a roundtable discussion with policymakers and bloggers as well as government officials of the Singapore Government past April9th 2008.
The impact of ICT in the General Elections- A lesson for Singapore, was to see Malaysian bloggers Media Consultant RockyBru, Blogger turned Parliamentarian Jeff Ooi, Lawyer and Blogger Haris Ibrahim, Webmaster and Blogger Nat Tan as well as Chief Editor of Malaysiakini Steven Gan engage the IPS invitees in a closed door session.
As agreed between the bloggers and the host, only the points shared by the bloggers was to allowed to be posted. Not surprisingly to us, seeing as our friends across the causeway was bent on keeping whats out, in!
As such the video coverage that was to have been, did not. We do apologise for the low quality content relied on notes taken. Let's hope that next time round, our host will be more eager to share with others what they would have learnt, if any.

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