[Noisebridge-discuss] Want to wire the middle east?

[Christie Dudley]

What I find boggling is that they're giving it away in *minimum* chunks of
$500,000 each.  What kind of wiki costs $500K?!

Christie
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On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Al Billings <albill at openbuddha.com> wrote:

>  From Boing Boing today (
> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/0UV7rlJBCmU/state-dept-offers-25.html<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/boingboing/iBag/%7E3/0UV7rlJBCmU/state-dept-offers-25.html>
> ):
>
> Henry Farrell sez:
> The US Department of State wants hackers to help build civil society
> in the Middle East and Africa. They're offering up to $2.5 million in
> grants for pilot projects that use wikis, blogs and social networking
> platforms to connect and educate young people and improve civic
> participation.
> .
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