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In 2006, I founded ZapBoom Consulting, which specializes in the analysis of how digital
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researched and written reports on topics ranging from 
J. N. Jayashree created a website to detail her husband's whistle-blowing
It's an old rule of thumb on the internet that if you are a dissident you should maintain your anonymity on the internet. The logic is simple: if the government doesn't know who you are, they won't be able to harass you - or worse. However, one Indian woman is showing that the opposite can also be true: she made a website about her whistle-blower husband, M. N. Vijayakumar, to protect him. Said J. N. Jayashree, creator of fightcorruption.wikidot.com, "I wanted to inform the people that this is happening, that my husband is a whistle-blower, so that it becomes the responsibility of every citizen to protect him.”
This strategy certainly wouldn't work in all countries. While in the past whistle-blowers in India's government bureacracy have been killed, India is by and large governed by the rule of law and political assassinations are frowned upon by the national government. The same is not true in a country like China or Egypt, where bloggers are summarily imprisoned for even talking about political reform. Nevertheless, Mrs. Jayashree's website shows a new paradigm for protecting whistle-blowers - put yourself out in the open and you will be less likely to disappear.
Read more about this story in the New York Times
Photo credit: Namas Bhojani
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