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... Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa, and is currently a t work on a book about the Iranian hostage-takers. Bloggers vs. Mullahs: How the Internet Roils Iran B ill Berkeley We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs N a srin A la v i...

... of the Internet in their lives? Andersdotter: In the United States, I believe the first-past-the-post system makes it more difficult to launch new political initiatives. In Europe, it’s quite easy to get into publically elected institutions. It’s a much more achievable goal. We have parties—Pirate Parties...

... their wealth in jurisdictions that cannot, or will not, cooperate in hunting them down. We are all just coming to terms with the fundamental change in criminality that has come from the Internet and, in particular, access to that small part of it known as the Dark Net. The Internet has abolished most...

... domestic communications, there will remain a vital public interest in ensuring safe, free, open global Internet communication. This will require developing a robust international regime for protecting online privacy and free expression—the hallmarks of democratic societies. Canadians can still pursue...

...Andrei Soldatov; Irina Borogan © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute MOSCOW—The Kremlin launched a massive offensive on the Internet three years ago after protests swept Moscow following President Vladimir Putin’s return to power. Since then, the RusNet (Russian segment...

...Rebecca Mackinnon As we think globally, those of us lucky enough to live in democracies must not forget that Internet freedom starts at home. If we cannot figure out how to constrain government and corporate power over digital networks people depend on, prepare to join our Ethiopian...

... to foreigners. For years, Russian secret services have been busy tightening their hold over Internet users in their country, and now they’re helping their counterparts in the rest of the former Soviet Union do the same. In the future, Russia may even succeed in splintering the web, breaking off from the global...

... laws,” Neha says. “When subjected to online harassment, women feel helpless and just give up.” But she will not. India is among the leading nations to seize the Internet space and take a leadership role in the global reach of social media. Indian entrepreneurs have made billions off the Internet...

...Jason Q. Ng If Chinese Internet companies want to achieve Google- or Microsoft-like global status, they’ll need not only produce outstanding products, but will need help from their government to quash the perception they are mere pawns for the Communist Party’s overarching goals. They’ll need...

... in their respective parts of the world. Chile is experiencing a social media frenzy. Nearly 95 percent of Chilean Internet users have an account on a social networking site, which they check several times a day. In the past few years, Facebook and YouTube have become two of the most visited sites, only...

.... Because Bei­ 1980s, China, according to Human Rights jing had not yet developed comprehensive Watch, arrested hundreds of Buddhist policies on Internet censorship, many Chi­ monks and instituted “patriotic education” nese could access the websites of foreign me­ classes at monasteries. Beijing...

...” and “innovation” is valuable to such companies, but the risks of genuine innovation are not. Disruption, serious disruption, is rarely good for business. An idle survey of the most fundamental changes of the last century, for better or worse, from the Manhattan Project to the internet, finds almost all of them...

... among the youth population, who believe that political participation does nothing more than sustain old and bloated institutions. To make matters worse, there are few politicians left to lead—all thanks to the Internet that young people have grown to embrace and engage. This appetite and capacity...

... face by New information technologies, includ­ registering as a for-profit corporation, even ing the Internet and e-mail have greatly fa­ though it operates as more of an independent cilitated the ability of overseas dissidents policy institute. and international ngo s...

..., four, six, eight, or more motors driving propellers. the development of drone technology is taking a parallel course to the early development of the internet. Drones can deploy a wide variety of sensor systems from high-definition video and still cameras, to infrared and multispectral...

... the Communist era, were to leap over generations of technology and embrace cellphones and debit cards, then digital IDs and internet-enabled services. After years of neglect under Soviet rule, the lack of infrastructure became an opportunity to start afresh: “We just skipped certain things . . . everyone...

... Last year, the San Francisco-based author Dave Eggers published his book, A Hologram for the King , a vision of Saudi Arabia where the Western world of holograms and the Internet comes up against the hard realities of today’s Saudi Arabia. Eggers, whose novel was nominated for a National Book Award...

..., and the Internet. The role of technology in Africa’s development is to give power to the people—not electricity, which remains one of the continent’s biggest challenges, but rather the power to enable citizens to create a better future for themselves, free from continuous dependence on foreign aid...

... recognize social media as a potentially lethal challenge to their rule. From Iran to Cuba, Russia to Vietnam, a host of countries use the Internet to isolate their people from the outside world, while we seek the Anatomy of those who would thwart such aims. Jason Q. Ng then takes a closer look at lessons...