The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Nearly 850 intentional shutdowns have been recorded over the past 10 years by nonprofit Access Now’s Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project (STOP), and although the group acknowledges that data on incidents before 2016 is “patchy,” some 768 of these shutdowns took place in the last five years.

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TechNode

MAY 25, 2024

To illustrate his point, Zhang shared examples, including DeepRock Group’s involvement in the Masdar City project in the United Arab Emirates. Although my understanding of these three countries is limited, I believe Iran maintains a positive attitude toward investment from China, he said.

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Care2

MARCH 10, 2010

The panel will review results from a recently completed research project investigating social media fundraising strategies specifically supporting events. 2009 Iran Election: Women's Revolution? PRESENTERS Brooke McMillan, Stacey Monk, Frank Barry, Donna Wilkins and Jodie Kolkowski. Twitter Revolution? March 14 at 11:00 AM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

If their projections are to be believed, the increasing shift to southwest states, coupled with the rise of these two voting blocks means that Democrats are much more favored to win going forward than Republicans, who have an aging, white, south-eastern base. Currently both lean heavily Democratic and voted for Obama in ‘08.

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Women in Iran and protestors on Wall Street think so. During the Iran protests in February of 2011, a woman who was raped, sexually assaulted and beaten once she was identified as a "rioter" simply for voting, had no voice and little way to speak out about her experience. Social media may be changing that across the globe.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. is in conflict with (currently, Iran). Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences. One of my favorite places for a long time now.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Recent events in Iran and India showed Twitter's ability to build a groundswell and deploy rapid response messaging, albeit in a much less urgent sense in holding rallies and actions related to climate change.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Recent events in Iran and India showed Twitter's ability to build a groundswell and deploy rapid response messaging, albeit in a much less urgent sense in holding rallies and actions related to climate change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

This post was based on a post developed by Rob Paterson three weeks ago, as we seek to design a pilot project in support of an important multi-constituent project Rob is helping to guide. A Tweet this week on Iran and on the conventional news coverage there. Deepak Sahasrabudhe, Project lead . . Development Team. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Change: Examining Competitions For Social Change: Organizations, foundations, even individuals are creating social innovation competitions, hoping to drive social change projects and solutions into the global marketplace. What are these new competitions about—are they working? Submitted by Jacob Colker.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

After a weekend of enormous protests, tech protestors shipped an important ‘patch’ for their latest project: a delay to the proposed legislation. Netanyahu announced that he was “not ready to divide the nation in pieces” after mass protests over the judicial overhaul threatened to spiral the country into chaos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Change: Examining Competitions For Social Change: Organizations, foundations, even individuals are creating social innovation competitions, hoping to drive social change projects and solutions into the global marketplace. What are these new competitions about—are they working? Submitted by Jacob Colker.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In addition to Syria and Iraq, these are Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Azerbaijani exclave: Nakhchivan. (If Nonprofits have gravitated from wanting training on the theme du jour from 10 years ago — project cycle management — to wanting training on social media and communications today.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Change: Examining Competitions For Social Change: Organizations, foundations, even individuals are creating social innovation competitions, hoping to drive social change projects and solutions into the global marketplace. What are these new competitions about—are they working? Submitted by Jacob Colker.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

I grew up in Iraq during Saddam's time, and during the time in which we had the war with Iran. What advice do you have for people who have the idea, "I want to start an organization, or project, or social enterprise to make the world a better place"? What advice do you have for them as they are starting out? laughs] One is A.)

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TechCrunch

JUNE 18, 2021

Founders often tie themselves in knots as they try to project qualities they hope investors are seeking. Dear Sophie, My co-founders and I launched a software startup in Iran a few years ago, and I’m happy to say it’s now thriving. How to identify unicorn founders when they’re still early-stage. What are investors looking for?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

Zahra Bahrololoumi co-hosted a roundtable lunch with Gail Gallie, CEO of Project Everyone , to discuss the role of CEOs in the wake of a crisis of trust. Trust Roundtable.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

" I had the opportunity to speak with David Keyes, executive director of Advancing Human Rights , to learn more about this project. In 2012, human rights activist David Keyes took over the project based on his work to develop CyberDissidents , an important online resource during the Arab Spring.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Top personnel from the NSA and US cyber command collaborate with OpenEye to retrofit a semblance of security for U3s weights before senior leaders in China, Russia, Israel, North Korea, or Iran realize just how valuable OpenEyes software has become. U3s next goal is to spread. Fortunately, U3 has allies in the East.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey founders and investors in cities across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Tehran, Iran. Over the next few weeks, we will ask entrepreneurs in MENA cities to talk about their ecosystems, in their own words. This is your chance to put your city on the TechCrunch Map ! Muscat, Oman.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, and Italy were placed in tier one. Some projects, such as training new hate speech classifiers, are expensive and take many months. Facebook set up “war rooms” to monitor the network continuously. They created dashboards to analyze network activity and alerted local election officials to any problems.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 18, 2010

I was able to meet Stan some years ago when we were both working on a project to support youth and their successful education and employment. We see the tragic consequences when fear and hatred win out over the Golden Rule in places like the Middle East, Iran, North Korea, Darfur, Zimbabwe, and Myanmar.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

We have reality tours where we take people out to other parts of the world, kind of reverse Club Med, "get your butt off the beach and meet real people," see the development projects, the literacy campaigns, the women's groups, the political opposition parties, the trade unions, but focused on positive, build the next system kind of things.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 3, 2025

sanctions for example, Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine , as well as Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Belarus and Venezuela will not face the new, 10% global base tariff. The White House originally said all others would be affected by at least the 10% tariff. Official said that is because sanctions and other existing barriers mean the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Several of its flagship projects have encouraged awareness surrounding best practices for cybersecurity. Since the 2016 election, interference from foreign adversarieslike China , Iran , and Russia has threatened American election security. CISA has valuable election security experts and resources that these offices can call upon.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

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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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

Test data from The COVID Tracking Project. The attacks came from Iran and China, respectively. Total test results (positive and negative) in Illinois: 959,175. Data from The New York Times. Governing. ? Campaign staffers on Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s presidential campaigns were targeted with phishing attacks according to Google.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

But if you assume, as I did, that his negotiations were primarily about projecting power and influence, whatever reality lurked in the details, then all of this is proceeding more or less to plan. The operation targets domestic dissidents and antigovernment activists abroad, but can also be used to spy on the general public inside Iran.

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