Mikhail Doroshevich is a founder of e-belarus.ORG, a Minsk

Minsk

- Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...

-based news and analytical site covering developments in ICT in Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

 and Information Policy Blog, which provides daily news about information policy. DoWire.org Democracies Online features him as one of the most notable human rights bloggers on the Internet. Mr. Doroshevich is a frequent contributor to Internet periodicals about technology and freedom in Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...

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Doroshevich influenced the 2005 Belarus government policy change allowing Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20...

access. He advocates for communications technology freedom and related human rights issues in Belarus and neighboring countries.

External links

• DoWire.org Democracies Online
• Digital Media Europe article - one of several Doroshevich articles for this publication.
• EUmap.org article by Doroshevich about human rights organizations and the Internet in Belarus.
• Openspectrum.info news report quoting Doroshevich about the Belarus government's change in policy to allow Wi-Fi access.
• http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/199808/msg00029.html a 1998 story quoting Doroshevich about Russian e-mail surveillance.
• UNESCO page publishing Doroshevich's report on the Belarus government and the Internet.
• Belarusian Mass Media Online e-belarus.ORG has recently conducted a survey of Belarusian online news sources.
• ePolitics 2006: Online Campaigning in 2006 Presidential Election in Belarus
• Belarusian Major Tax Payers Online
• Belarusian Online Journalism: Citizens' Generated Content And Web 2.0