Next stop - Boston, MA
We鈥檙e off to Boston. I鈥檇 love to know if you want to talk about the new software that gives people in countries with internet censorship the chance to browse unobserved, if is well overdue, if is about racism, standing against the scientific tidal wave or just media manipulation, if the were worthy of a place on World Have Your Say and most importantly where I can find my favourite brand of jeans鈥
Your help is needed. What should we talk about on our trip to Boston? You set the agenda. We listen (and shop on our day off).
We're back from India and almost before some of us have unpacked - we're off to the USA.
In Boston it鈥檚 presently minus 2 degrees centigrade. It was plus 33 in Mumbai.
Thursday the 22nd February sees us at the . This is how .
As ever we鈥檒l be talking about the big stories in the international news. But here鈥檚 an opportunity to talk to leading figures in the media about issues that they consider every day.
How about ? At least 40 countries around the world, including China, Uzbekistan, and Iran, engage in some kind of internet censorship. But Canadian researchers have devised new software to give people in these countries unfettered Internet access without getting them into trouble.
What will the founder and CEO of Technorati have to say about it?
We want your ideas, your questions, your comments. Please email the World Have Your Say team now.
Our programme on Friday 23rd February will come from the , we will also be going out on local station WBUR and our own Ros Atkins will be joined by WBUR morning host .
We also want you to tell us your ideas for our Boston programme, having got myself 鈥淏oston鈥 Google alerts and nosing round the site I鈥檓 wondering if any of you are talking about these issues鈥
confirmed as Harvard鈥檚 first female president. Larry Summers was the previous president and got in hot water for several comments including some about . We can widen this our to a 鈥渨omen in leadership鈥 debate to encompass Hillary Clinton's presidential bid and let鈥檚 hear your thoughts on Angela Merkel and Segoleyne Royale?
What about ? For those who haven鈥檛 heard, he鈥檚 professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and he鈥檚 on hunger strike. His opposition to embryonic stem cell research has been very controversial and he claims he has been denied the same freedom to challenge scientific orthodoxy afforded to his white colleagues. He鈥檚 after a tenure.
There鈥檚 quite a big of blog activity around this, some his stance, some less complimentary.
And a few weeks ago Ros was keen on hearing your views about the blinking adverts that caused a bomb scare. We voted against doing it on the programme. Were we wrong, does anyone still care? does.
Also, it鈥檚 not like I鈥檓 using our readers and listeners as travel agents but if you have some recommendations of places to eat, let me know. One of our technicians, Shona, has already convinced me of the need to go to the . Fellow Producer, Anna, and I have booked an extra day in Boston so where do you think we should go on Saturday? My brother recommends the , anyone else? And lastly where can I buy some Seven for Mankind jeans? This, you understand, if far more important that the previous editorial stuff. Email me 鈥 so the rest of the World Have Your Say team don鈥檛 tell me off.
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