“Blogging “ a New Horizon ... No limits

“Blogging “  a New Horizon ... No limits

The conference of the Bloggers in Diwaniya

20^th January 2011

Holding the title of “Blogging “  a New Horizon ... No limits, the Bloggers in Diwaniya started the conference which was held by the Congregation of the Iraqi Bloggers in the South on Saturday 20th January. I was the guest of the meeting and the lecturer. I discussed the prospects of blogging in Iraq and the impact of blogging as well as the blogs as a window through which the citizen can express his opinion. The seminar was received by active attendees who started to debate through interventions, comments and questions.

FEO, cyber law, ROI and JPL all these laws were discussed in the conference. The attendees asked about the copies of these laws because they never read it before or see it; they blamed Iraqi media outlets, and criticized the media role in shading lights about such important things. The attendees talked about the CSOs role to support and help people by educating them about the laws.

The knowledge of blogging was the main theme in the discussions, most of the attendees showed their hopes to get blogs but they did not know who to do it, then we agreed about certain ways to get this aim. One of these ways is the trainings and workshops; it is the main and most important way to spreed the blogging knowledge. SCOs who attended the conference suggested the idea of (the Electronic-Bus) a bus that contains a computers, internet access and professionals. The idea is to make the Bus wanders in the rural and cities to teach people blogging in accordance to the program and system.

The code of conduct of the blogging in Iraq was one of the themes that were discussed in the meeting which is concerned with issues like the use of blogging for defamation, dissemination and publishing things that harm the reputation of others. Dissemination of rumors lies and distorting facts as well as violence in society, and it was concluded that such practices should be ruled by the code of conduct and the supports of international organizations in Iraq to organize the code of conduct for Iraqi bloggers is needed.

Finally, I thanked the three bloggers who attended UNESCO's training in the mid of 2011 from Diwanya and who worked hard to teach others and made the number of bloggers increased into more than 80 bloggers in this city, and the number of the blogs became 230 blogs, they established the congregation of Iraqi bloggers in south. This is the real achievement and the evidence about the good Iraqi bloggers