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                     &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are destined to fail at our tourism efforts because the stakeholders, decision makers and governmental associations have no understanding of the new media landscape.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Travel blogger &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rishiray.com/tourism-tdc-social-media-failure/#utm_source=feed&amp;#038;utm_medium=feed&amp;#038;utm_campaign=feed&quot;&gt;Rishi Sankar&lt;/a&gt; takes the Trinidad and Tobago tourism body to task for its &amp;#8220;lack of recognition of social media’s impact on tourism.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In its latest update, the dictionary that describes itself as &amp;#034;the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium&amp;#034; has revamped the entry for &amp;#034;tweet&amp;#034; to include its social networking usage.&lt;/p&gt;
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                     &lt;p&gt;The ongoing saga with &lt;a href=&quot;http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2013/06/11/will-hong-kong-give-prism-whistleblower-edward-snowden-asylum/&quot;&gt;U.S. Internet surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden&lt;/a&gt; has captured the attention of the world &amp;#8211; Caribbean bloggers included.  There has been a fair amount of discussion about the issue on Facebook: users of the social network have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/06/11/snowden-hides-in-hong-kong-us-china-diplomacy-takes-center-stage/&quot;&gt;sharing&lt;/a&gt; up-to-the-minute news &lt;a href=&quot;http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/06/13/chinese-media-can-quote-foreign-press-on-snowden-saga/&quot;&gt;links&lt;/a&gt; and signing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_prism_global/&quot;&gt;Avaaz.org petition&lt;/a&gt; to &amp;#8220;Stand with Snowden&amp;#8221;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In two blog posts, one from Trinidad and Tobago and the other from Cuba, there is an interesting juxtaposition between high-tech spying and old-fashioned intelligence, even though they both pit the citizens against the state.  ICT Pulse, which prides itself on discussing global technology issues from a Caribbean point of view, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ict-pulse.com/2013/06/government-intrusion-privacy/&quot;&gt;opens by saying&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;The recent revelations of the breadth and depth of the telecoms surveillance being conducted by the United States has been highlighting the extent to which communication is no longer private. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unless you have been wholly disconnected from international news over the last two weeks, we have been inundated with reports about the extent of the surveillance and spying being done by the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Although from time to time we here at ICT Pulse have been discussing the fact that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ict-pulse.com/2011/02/giving-up-the-ghost-is-privacy-just-an-illusion/&quot;&gt;Internet privacy is an illusion&lt;/a&gt;, and suggesting ways in which &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ict-pulse.com/2011/02/12-steps-to-improve-your-privacy-online-%E2%80%93-part-1/&quot;&gt;to improve your privacy online&lt;/a&gt;, these recent revelations indicate a more pervasive (and government-sanctioned) programme exists.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The post then sums up the United States&amp;#8217; approach to telecommunications surveillance, explaining:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Through electronic surveillance projects, most notably one codenamed PRISM, the NSA has been collecting data from&amp;#8230;telecoms companies, such as AT&amp;#038;T and Verizon, and from large internet properties, such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, YouTube, Skype and Apple.  When news about PRISM was made public, some of companies sought to refute claims that the NSA was collecting the data &amp;#8216;directly from the servers&amp;#39;. However, subsequent reports have suggested that the US government has indeed been getting access to user content.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To defuse some of the outcry that occurred in the US when the story broke, the government revealed that its surveillance has been geared primarily towards identifying potential threats to America. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With regard to voice calls, the US government indicated that it collects the metadata of those transactions, and did not necessarily listen in on people’s conversations. However, the metadata, while not capturing the actual content of persons’ interactions, can provide enough information to deduce the nature of those conversations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ict-pulse.com/2013/06/government-intrusion-privacy/&quot;&gt;what does that mean&lt;/a&gt; for people who live in the Caribbean?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our telephone conversations generally might fall outside of US jurisdiction, and so not be immediately subject to PRISM and other forms of scrutiny. However, in circumstances where Internet Messaging and Voice over Internet Protocol- (VoIP) type services are being used, e.g. Skype, Viber, and iChat, and especially when the servers might be located in the US, those interactions could be subject to US government surveillance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The blog is careful to issue a warning:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#8230;ought to bear in mind, that even in the region, law enforcement is increasingly seeking to have access to and to rely on the tapping of phones (fixed and mobile/cellular) in their investigations. In many Caribbean countries, mobile/cellular phone registration is mandatory, which means that, up to a point, the original owner of a device is known. Moreover, from time to time, proposals are mooted to relax device-tapping or call interception procedures – for example so that a government Minister can sanction such activities instead of the courts. Although generally there has been opposition to those proposals, they will continue to rear their head, as law enforcement continues to grapple with crime, and governments place increasing focus on &amp;#8216;national security&amp;#39;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With the exception of the European Union, countries worldwide have been relatively silent about the disclosures regarding the depth and breadth of US electronic surveillance.  Hence it could cause us to question whether or not, or the extent to which countries, including those in the Caribbean, might have cooperated with the US on such matters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tackling what it calls an &amp;#8220;over-reliance on US Internet facilities&amp;#8221;, the post suggests a possible solution:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#8230;need to&amp;#8230;recognise that our personal and business-related data could also be subject to US scrutiny, should they be stored in the US.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From a sovereignty and national security perspective, a case could be made for individual countries or even the region collectively, to actively develop their own web hosting, server facilities, Internet infrastructure, etc., in order to encourage their citizens to bring their data closer to home.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In Cuba, however, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://translatingcuba.com/whos-watching-yoani-sanchez/&quot;&gt;Yoani Sanchez&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;#8220;home&amp;#8221; is exactly where the spying originates from:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;His own neighbor watches him. No one has confirmed it, he hasn’t read it any report, and he doesn’t have any friends in the police who have warned him. He’s simply not stupid. Whenever he opens the gate to his house, a white head peers out from next door. For every five times that he comes and goes, at least three times he runs into the old man who lives in the next apartment pretending to water the plants in the passage. The pots are overflowing, but the improvised watcher continues to add more and more water. Also he asks questions, a lot of questions, on the most imponderable topics: Um… what you have in that bag, where did you buy it? It’s been some time since you visited your mother-in-law, right? So he has his own private informer, an intelligence cell — of just one member — focused on his existence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The post continues:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;In an unwritten, but very frequent, formula, most of the people involved in the betrayal of other Cubans also exhibit a great frustration in their personal lives. Not that every unhappy person becomes an informant for State Security, but failure is a breeding ground that the recruiters of informers take advantage of. With these individuals they develop shock troops willing to destroy others.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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                     &lt;p&gt;HongWrong has &lt;a href=&quot;http://hongwrong.com/snowden-hong-kong-media/&quot;&gt;collected a large number of media reports&lt;/a&gt; on the rally to support Edward Snowden in Hong Kong on 15 of June, 2013. Hundreds rallied in the rain demanding the U.S government to stop its spying activities and Hong Kong government to protect Snowden. &lt;/p&gt;
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                     &lt;p&gt; In 1850, the British inventor William O&amp;#39;Shaughnessy -- who would later become famous for his early experiments with medical cannabis -- sent a coded message over a telegraph line in India. His telegram would usher in a new age of communication in and for India, connecting the country in a way that had never before been possible.&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Now, sometime on July 14, 2013, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2013/0614/India-to-send-world-s-last-telegram.-Stop&quot;&gt;someone in India will have a dubious honor&lt;/a&gt;: he or she will send the country&amp;#39;s last telegram. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Bharat+Sanchar+Nigam+Ltd.&quot;&gt;Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited&lt;/a&gt;, India&amp;#39;s state-run telecom company, will shutter its telegram service, bringing the long era of Indian telegraphy from a dash ... to a full stop.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; The shuttering comes &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livescience.com/6989-era-ends-western-union-stops-sending-telegrams.html&quot;&gt;seven years after Western Union ended its telegram service&lt;/a&gt; -- and nearly 170 years after &lt;a href=&quot;http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventors/ig/Samuel-Morse---Patent/First-Telegraph-Message.htm&quot;&gt;Samuel Morse sent the United States&amp;#39;s first telegraphic messages&lt;/a&gt;, between Washington and Baltimore, in 1844.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; The shuttering of the service is not surprising. In a country that has quickly embraced, if not fully adopted, mobile technologies, the telegram has become largely redundant as a method of quick, long-distance communication. BSNL&amp;#39;s telegram service had been losing money -- and lots of it -- for years. &amp;#34;We were incurring losses of over $23 million a year because SMS and smartphones have rendered this service redundant,&amp;#34; Shamim Akhtar, general manager of BSNL&amp;#39;s telegraph services, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2013/0614/India-to-send-world-s-last-telegram.-Stop&quot;&gt;told the Christian Science Monitor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; And, indeed. As &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2013/0614/India-to-send-world-s-last-telegram.-Stop&quot;&gt;the Monitor notes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt; At their peak in 1985, 60 million telegrams were being sent and received a year in India from 45,000 offices. Today, only 75 offices exist, though they are located in each of India&amp;#39;s 671 districts through franchises. And an industry that once employed 12,500 people, today has only 998 workers.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt; Then again, though, a shrunken industry is not necessarily a dead industry. As V.A.N. Namboodiri, a spokesman for the union representing 250,000 employees of the state telecom, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bsnl-employees-slam-telegram-service-closure/article4815545.ece&quot;&gt;noted&lt;/a&gt;, telegrams &amp;#34;are still used by military personnel for official use and also for contacting their families from remote locations.&amp;#34; Governments and banks still use them for official communication: i&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;n India, the Monitor reports, a whopping 65 percent of daily telegrams are sent by the government. A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1em;&quot;&gt;nd they&amp;#39;re often used for legal communication and record-keeping, as well.&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1em;&quot;&gt;Telegrams can also play a cultural role in India.&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&amp;#34;A number of telegrams are from runaway couples who marry secretly because their parents wouldn&amp;#39;t let them marry in the wrong caste, class, or religion,&amp;#34; the Monitor notes. The couples send telegrams not only to the families themselves, but also to the police and the National Human Rights Commission -- so that, if the family threatens violence against the unapproved marriage, there&amp;#39;s a paper trail. The telegrams function, in this case, as a kind of insurance policy.&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1em;&quot;&gt;Unions of the labor variety, given all that,&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bsnl-employees-slam-telegram-service-closure/article4815545.ece&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 1em;&quot;&gt;have urged Indian telecom minister Kapil Sibal to keep the telegram service running&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1em;&quot;&gt;, even as a shadow of its former self. &amp;#34;It is a valued service and should be kept as a skeleton service and preserved as a heritage,&amp;#34; one union&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bsnl-employees-slam-telegram-service-closure/article4815545.ece&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 1em;&quot;&gt;told The Hindu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1em;&quot;&gt;. But niche uses weren&amp;#39;t enough to convince the BSNL to keep its doors -- and its telegraph lines -- open. The telegram service is a business. And like most businesses, an end to profitability means, simply an end. Or in this case: a STOP.&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;i&gt;Via &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/statuses/346468241041915905&quot;&gt;@stevesilberman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Top image: A stamp for the Indo-European Telegraph, circa 1967 (Shutterstock/&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?lang=en&amp;#38;search_source=search_form&amp;#38;search_tracking_id=BD4rrMnHreC1rflED4Bs1A&amp;#38;version=llv1&amp;#38;anyorall=all&amp;#38;safesearch=1&amp;#38;searchterm=india+telegraph&amp;#38;search_group=&amp;#38;orient=&amp;#38;search_cat=&amp;#38;searchtermx=&amp;#38;photographer_name=&amp;#38;people_gender=&amp;#38;people_age=&amp;#38;people_ethnicity=&amp;#38;people_number=&amp;#38;commercial_ok=&amp;#38;color=&amp;#38;show_color_wheel=1#id=119788672&amp;#38;src=uWvah0MBglQj4AHB8KAsTQ-1-0&quot;&gt;rook76&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;i&gt;This post originally appeared on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/indias-last-telegram-will-be-sent-in-july/276913/&quot;&gt;The Atlantic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;http://atlanticcities.feedsportal.com/c/35095/f/648529/s/2d6a3eac/mf.gif&#039; border=&#039;0&#039;/&gt;&lt;div class=&#039;mf-viral&#039;&gt;&lt;table border=&#039;0&#039;&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign=&#039;middle&#039;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlanticcities.com%2Ftechnology%2F2013%2F06%2Findias-last-telegram-will-be-sent-july%2F5932%2F&amp;t=India%27s+Last+Telegram+Will+Be+Sent+in+July&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlanticcities.com%2Ftechnology%2F2013%2F06%2Findias-last-telegram-will-be-sent-july%2F5932%2F&amp;t=India%27s+Last+Telegram+Will+Be+Sent+in+July&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlanticcities.com%2Ftechnology%2F2013%2F06%2Findias-last-telegram-will-be-sent-july%2F5932%2F&amp;t=India%27s+Last+Telegram+Will+Be+Sent+in+July&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlanticcities.com%2Ftechnology%2F2013%2F06%2Findias-last-telegram-will-be-sent-july%2F5932%2F&amp;t=India%27s+Last+Telegram+Will+Be+Sent+in+July&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlanticcities.com%2Ftechnology%2F2013%2F06%2Findias-last-telegram-will-be-sent-july%2F5932%2F&amp;t=India%27s+Last+Telegram+Will+Be+Sent+in+July&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign=&#039;middle&#039;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665632544/u/49/f/648529/c/35095/s/2d6a3eac/a2.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665632544/u/49/f/648529/c/35095/s/2d6a3eac/a2.img&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665632544/u/49/f/648529/c/35095/s/2d6a3eac/a2t.img&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;/&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheAtlanticCities/~4/sdzznJ4UcVk&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; width=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;
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                     &lt;p&gt; In 1850, the British inventor William O&amp;#39;Shaughnessy -- who would later become famous for his early experiments with medical cannabis -- sent a coded message over a telegraph line in India. His telegram would usher in a new age of communication in and for India, connecting the country in a way that had never before been possible.&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Now, sometime on July 14, 2013, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2013/0614/India-to-send-world-s-last-telegram.-Stop&quot;&gt;someone in India will have a dubious honor&lt;/a&gt;: he or she will send the country&amp;#39;s last telegram. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Bharat+Sanchar+Nigam+Ltd.&quot;&gt;Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited&lt;/a&gt;, India&amp;#39;s state-run telecom company, will shutter its telegram service, bringing the long era of Indian telegraphy from a dash ... to a full stop.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; The shuttering comes &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livescience.com/6989-era-ends-western-union-stops-sending-telegrams.html&quot;&gt;seven years after Western Union ended its telegram service&lt;/a&gt; -- and nearly 170 years after &lt;a href=&quot;http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventors/ig/Samuel-Morse---Patent/First-Telegraph-Message.htm&quot;&gt;Samuel Morse sent the United States&amp;#39;s first telegraphic messages&lt;/a&gt;, between Washington and Baltimore, in 1844.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; The shuttering of the service is not surprising. In a country that has quickly embraced, if not fully adopted, mobile technologies, the telegram has become largely redundant as a method of quick, long-distance communication. BSNL&amp;#39;s telegram service had been losing money -- and lots of it -- for years. &amp;#34;We were incurring losses of over $23 million a year because SMS and smartphones have rendered this service redundant,&amp;#34; Shamim Akhtar, general manager of BSNL&amp;#39;s telegraph services, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2013/0614/India-to-send-world-s-last-telegram.-Stop&quot;&gt;told the Christian Science Monitor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; And, indeed. As &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2013/0614/India-to-send-world-s-last-telegram.-Stop&quot;&gt;the Monitor notes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt; At their peak in 1985, 60 million telegrams were being sent and received a year in India from 45,000 offices. Today, only 75 offices exist, though they are located in each of India&amp;#39;s 671 districts through franchises. And an industry that once employed 12,500 people, today has only 998 workers.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt; Then again, though, a shrunken industry is not necessarily a dead industry. As V.A.N. Namboodiri, a spokesman for the union representing 250,000 employees of the state telecom, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bsnl-employees-slam-telegram-service-closure/article4815545.ece&quot;&gt;noted&lt;/a&gt;, telegrams &amp;#34;are still used by military personnel for official use and also for contacting their families from remote locations.&amp;#34; Governments and banks still use them for official communication: in India, the Monitor reports, a whopping 65 percent of daily telegrams are sent by the government. And they&amp;#39;re often used for legal communication and record-keeping, as well.&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Telegrams can also play a cultural role in India.&amp;#160;&amp;#34;A number of telegrams are from runaway couples who marry secretly because their parents wouldn&amp;#39;t let them marry in the wrong caste, class, or religion,&amp;#34; the Monitor notes. The couples send telegrams not only to the families themselves, but also to the police and the National Human Rights Commission -- so that, if the family threatens violence against the unapproved marriage, there&amp;#39;s a paper trail. The telegrams function, in this case, as a kind of insurance policy.&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Unions of the labor variety, given all that,&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bsnl-employees-slam-telegram-service-closure/article4815545.ece&quot;&gt;have urged Indian telecom minister Kapil Sibal to keep the telegram service running&lt;/a&gt;, even as a shadow of its former self. &amp;#34;It is a valued service and should be kept as a skeleton service and preserved as a heritage,&amp;#34; one union&amp;#160;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bsnl-employees-slam-telegram-service-closure/article4815545.ece&quot;&gt;told The Hindu&lt;/a&gt;. But niche uses weren&amp;#39;t enough to convince the BSNL to keep its doors -- and its telegraph lines -- open. The telegram service is a business. And like most businesses, an end to profitability means, simply an end. Or in this case: a STOP.&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;i&gt;Via &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/statuses/346468241041915905&quot;&gt;@stevesilberman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Top image: A stamp for the Indo-European Telegraph, circa 1967 (Shutterstock/&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?lang=en&amp;#38;search_source=search_form&amp;#38;search_tracking_id=BD4rrMnHreC1rflED4Bs1A&amp;#38;version=llv1&amp;#38;anyorall=all&amp;#38;safesearch=1&amp;#38;searchterm=india+telegraph&amp;#38;search_group=&amp;#38;orient=&amp;#38;search_cat=&amp;#38;searchtermx=&amp;#38;photographer_name=&amp;#38;people_gender=&amp;#38;people_age=&amp;#38;people_ethnicity=&amp;#38;people_number=&amp;#38;commercial_ok=&amp;#38;color=&amp;#38;show_color_wheel=1#id=119788672&amp;#38;src=uWvah0MBglQj4AHB8KAsTQ-1-0&quot;&gt;rook76&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;i&gt;This post originally appeared on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/indias-last-telegram-will-be-sent-in-july/276913/&quot;&gt;The Atlantic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&#039;1&#039; height=&#039;1&#039; src=&#039;http://atlanticcities.feedsportal.com/c/35095/f/648529/s/2d6a3eac/mf.gif&#039; border=&#039;0&#039;/&gt;&lt;div class=&#039;mf-viral&#039;&gt;&lt;table border=&#039;0&#039;&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign=&#039;middle&#039;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlanticcities.com%2Ftechnology%2F2013%2F06%2Findias-last-telegram-will-be-sent-july%2F5932%2F&amp;t=India%27s+Last+Telegram+Will+Be+Sent+in+July&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlanticcities.com%2Ftechnology%2F2013%2F06%2Findias-last-telegram-will-be-sent-july%2F5932%2F&amp;t=India%27s+Last+Telegram+Will+Be+Sent+in+July&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlanticcities.com%2Ftechnology%2F2013%2F06%2Findias-last-telegram-will-be-sent-july%2F5932%2F&amp;t=India%27s+Last+Telegram+Will+Be+Sent+in+July&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlanticcities.com%2Ftechnology%2F2013%2F06%2Findias-last-telegram-will-be-sent-july%2F5932%2F&amp;t=India%27s+Last+Telegram+Will+Be+Sent+in+July&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlanticcities.com%2Ftechnology%2F2013%2F06%2Findias-last-telegram-will-be-sent-july%2F5932%2F&amp;t=India%27s+Last+Telegram+Will+Be+Sent+in+July&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign=&#039;middle&#039;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665632544/u/49/f/648529/c/35095/s/2d6a3eac/a2.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665632544/u/49/f/648529/c/35095/s/2d6a3eac/a2.img&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665632544/u/49/f/648529/c/35095/s/2d6a3eac/a2t.img&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;/&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheAtlanticCities/~4/sdzznJ4UcVk&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; width=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;
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                     &lt;p&gt;A group of bloggers and cyber activists &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FPIXvam-B_m8mciTS9VZrMk1EAhka3SdmkW5eUqOopE/viewform&quot;&gt;wrote&lt;/a&gt; a letter to new President-elect&lt;a href=&quot;http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/06/16/iran-happy-my-vote-was-counted-this-time-videos/&quot;&gt; Hassan Rouhani&lt;/a&gt;, asking him to increase Internet speed. They also complain about filtering and remind Rouhani that he used the Internet to promote his campaign.&lt;/p&gt;
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                     &lt;p&gt;India&amp;#39;s state-owned telecommunications company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced that it is &lt;a href=&quot;http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/BSNL-decides-to-discontinue-160-year-old-telegram-service/articleshow/20554017.cms&quot;&gt;discontinuing its 160-year-old telegram service&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Although thousands of telegrams were still being sent each day, BSNL&amp;#39;s telegraph service was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/dot-dash-full-stop-telegram-service-ends-july-15/article4806921.ec&quot;&gt;incurring huge losses&lt;/a&gt;. Only last year the telegram charges were revised down to address declining revenues, but it wasn&amp;#39;t enough.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The service, which is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/10118966/End-of-an-era.-Stop.-India-scraps-the-telegram.-Stop..html&quot;&gt;last large-scale telegram service&lt;/a&gt; operating in the world, will cease on 15 July, 2013.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The history of telegram in the country &lt;a href=&quot;http://gautam77.blogspot.com/2013/06/there-were-telegram-service-in-india.html&quot;&gt;dates back to 1850&lt;/a&gt; when the first telegraph message was transmitted between Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Diamond Harbour, a distance of about 50 km.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Blogger and journalist &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2013/0614/India-to-send-world-s-last-telegram.-Stop&quot;&gt;Shivam VJ&lt;/a&gt; described the dying state of the service:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;At their peak in 1985, 60 million telegrams were being sent and received a year in India from 45,000 offices. Today, only 75 offices exist, though they are located in each of India&amp;#39;s 671 districts through franchises. And an industry that once employed 12,500 people, today has only 998 workers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;div id=&quot;attachment_418393&quot; class=&quot;wp-caption aligncenter&quot; style=&quot;width: 610px&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_telegraph_receipts_with_Indore_cancel_and_half_stamps_1900-1904.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-full wp-image-418393&quot; alt=&quot;Indian Telegraph receipt dated somewhere around 1900-1904. Image from public domain via Wikimedia Commons.&quot; src=&quot;http://globalvoicesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Indian_telegraph_receipts.jpg&quot; width=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;Indian Telegraph receipt dated somewhere around 1900-1904. Image from public domain via Wikimedia Commons.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Blogger and journalist &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/dnRqhS9tSxkvxMEJx3xh7H/The-telegram-is-dying.html&quot;&gt;Sidin Vadukut&lt;/a&gt; predicted five years ago at Live Mint the industry&amp;#39;s bleak future. As newer technologies have made telegrams redundant, the service is facing an expected death.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many in social media have reminisced over the telegram&amp;#39;s rich history.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ashaperinchery.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-requiem.html&quot;&gt;Asha Perinchery&lt;/a&gt; remembered those golden days on her blog:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even for my wedding in 1983, I remember getting only telegrams for best wishes from those near and dear ones who could not attend the function.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mobilemarketingwatch.com/sms-has-officially-killed-the-telegram-33476/&quot;&gt;Michael&lt;/a&gt; at Mobile Marketing Watch claimed that the SMS and mobile phones have officially killed the telegram. More than &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/10118966/End-of-an-era.-Stop.-India-scraps-the-telegram.-Stop..html&quot;&gt;900,000 Indians now own mobile phones and 120 million people&lt;/a&gt; use the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Media company &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mxmindia.com/2013/06/1-minute-view-telegram-rip/&quot;&gt;MXM India&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Advancements in technology saw the demise of the various Ts. Trunk call first. The telex and teleprinter and now the telegraph.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More reactions were seen on Twitter. Twitter user &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/TeeKay_Inc&quot;&gt;@TeeKay_Inc&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/TeeKay_Inc/status/345943987695267840&quot;&gt;@TeeKay_Inc&lt;/a&gt;: End of an era. Stop. India scraps the telegram. Stop.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hindustan Times journalist Madhavan Narayan (&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/madversity&quot;&gt;@madversity&lt;/a&gt;) contrasted the cost of telegrams and smartphones:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/madversity/status/344105920000847872&quot;&gt;@madversity&lt;/a&gt;: In 1960s/70s, it used to cost 10 rupees for a two-word telegram from north to south India. Now we are video-calling real-time almost free&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Technologist ManasRM (&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/ManasRM&quot;&gt;@ManasRM&lt;/a&gt;) eulogized the service:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/ManasRM/status/345974531367780352&quot;&gt;@ManasRM&lt;/a&gt;: R.I.P India Post telegram service &amp;#8211; a bearer of good or bad news for me during my grad days.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The status of telegram services worldwide is available &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy#Worldwide_status_of_telegram_services&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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                     &lt;p&gt;The GSMA, the global association for the world’s mobile operators, opens an African office in Nairobi, White African &lt;a href=&quot;http://whiteafrican.com/2013/05/15/the-gsma-opens-an-africa-office-at-the-ihub/&quot;&gt;reports&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;
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                     &lt;p&gt;The GSMA, the global association for the world’s mobile operators, opens an African office in Nairobi, White African &lt;a href=&quot;http://whiteafrican.com/2013/05/15/the-gsma-opens-an-africa-office-at-the-ihub/&quot;&gt;reports&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Back in 2010 when the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ihub.co.ke&quot;&gt;iHub&lt;/a&gt; first opened, we had some of their staff who were in Kenya working out of the iHub and using the space for different meetings. They loved the vibe and makeup of the Kenyan tech community and wanted to figure out how they could connect and be a part of this same energetic space, while at the same time fulfilling their obligation to Africa’s mobile operators. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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