http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/1093 en_GB_DOC http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/160016/1/1093 Tom Hadfield famous for selling a soccer website at the age of 17 is now launching a social networking site to help fight malaria that kills a million people a year. The site will not just be a fund raising tool but also connect researchers working on its prevention and treatment. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/159972/1/1093 A non-profit media project is organising Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 in Budapest, Hungary on June 27-28, 2008. The event will highlight the contribution of diverse voices like bloggers, activists and journalists in global information dissemination. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/158144/1/1093 Blogging, internet chat rooms and sites have become the safest ways for gay Africans and Arabs to meet, while keeping their identities secret. Caution is after all crucial as homosexual acts are illegal in most countries in Africa and the Middle East. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/158004/1/1093 Even while a US-based body is running tests to see whether it will offer domain names in non-Roman alphabets, in countries such as India mobile companies are wooing rural users by offering services in local scripts to overcome the language barrier. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/157417/1/1093 Large parts of Middle East and India are facing disruption of Internet services due to damage to two undersea cables in the Mediterranean. It will take at least a week’s time to restore the severed cables.