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Mobile Citizen Journalism: The Phone As Global Equalizer « MobileBehavior

AFP Blog

Mobile Citizen Journalism: The Phone As Global Equalizer « MobileBehavior: "iran-mobile-citizenThe Iranian crisis put Twitter in the spotlight as an organizational tool showcasing how the online world could be used to communicate and unite people, despite government censorship.

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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care.

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

Viber is quite global. Obviously, we index better in some countries (and worse in others), but it’s pretty much a global phenomenon. Viber is currently blocked or disrupted by Iran and Vodafone. How big is video and picture sharing on Viber, vis-à-vis regular text messaging and VoIP calls?

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To Dubai on an Emirates Airbus 380

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I had been invited to attend the Global Agenda Council meeting organized by the World Economic Forum. When I got up, I hung out in the bar taking pictures (of course). Flying down the Persian Gulf, alongside Iran's coast, we arrived in Dubai. My current business trip started by heading for Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

Have Fun - Do Good

You get her picture. Well, I'm looking at the picture of one them, Honorata, who is one of my best teachers in this world and a hero for me. I grew up in Iraq during Saddam's time, and during the time in which we had the war with Iran. You get her letters. You get to exchange as many letters as you want with her.

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The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis

The Verge

The agency has used this authority to conduct a series of covert cyber operations against Iran and other targets. Israeli 2009 Stuxnet attack , which destroyed centrifuges that Iran used to enrich uranium gas for its nuclear program. President Trump secretly granted the CIA more power to launch cyberattacks in 2018.

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