Poland will soon run a US-designed computer simulation exercise to help senior officials from Tunisia, Egypt and Libya learn how to manage unstable states in political transition. The SENSE program was developed by the US Institute for Defense…
Initiative promoted through a Facebook group that coordinates demonstrations alongside the route of Google’s vehicles. A new initiative seeks to take advantage of Google’s Street View service launch in Israel to promote demonstrations against the Israeli occupation. The initiative is…
Outcry: Citizens demonstrate in Tunis, Tunisia, on January 20, 2011. Similar protests had already led President Ben Ali to flee the country; now the protesters were angry that members of his party remained in the transitional government. Audio » Editor’s…
Hacktivism is the word of the moment. And like many trendy words it is overused and misused. Hacktivism is a term very much like «hacker» in that sense. The original meaning of hacker – according to jargon.txt…
Photo: Reuters A Bahrain woman looks at pictures of victims of the February 14 uprising, displayed at an exhibition during a gathering held by the Al Fateh Youth Union in Isa Town, south of Manama, Bahrain, July 28, 2011…
1 Egypt’s military prosecution on Sunday launched an investigation against Asmaa Mahfouz, a 26-year-old activist accused of insulting the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and calling for armed operations against the military and the judiciary. Mahfouz was…
1 Egypt’s military prosecution on Sunday launched an investigation against Asmaa Mahfouz, a 26-year-old activist accused of insulting the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and calling for armed operations against the military and the judiciary. Mahfouz was…
As top secret files rest in the recesses of high security government headquarters, a group of faceless activists are roaring forth down the other end of the Ethernet cable, ready to raid the servers and escape with sensitive information.…
Dieu Cay in an undated photo. Reports suggest that an outspoken Vietnamese blogger is in grave condition in prison. An outspoken Vietnamese blogger, currently serving a jail sentence, may have “lost an arm” in prison, a human rights…
Tina Rosenberg, whose recent book Join the Club is a must read for activists, had a piece on the New York Times’ Opinionator blog yesterday criticizing the importance of social media in social movements. In keeping with the…
