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

[Ceren Ercen]

the kind that has people to support it, design it, promote it locally in 
those communities, has its own hardware, host it somewhere they can 
reach it at with multiple routes, given the crappiness of internets 
there, as well as failover locations, has extensive backups given its 
vunerability as a political target, maybe building out power and a 
"local" set of machines or minicolo there so it's not over satlink 
only.... probably needs local access cybercafe centers, too, since few 
people have home network connections and cybercafes are still in common 
use...

See Talia Internet's work, for example.

- Ceren, who would happily go work out in the sandbox again.



Christie Dudley wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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