Thursday, June 4, 2009

Twitter, IATP, and the congenial? Twilitary

How well do you know IATP, the Internet Access and Training Program?

from wikipedia:
a network of Internet access sites... thousands of individuals per month receive free-of-charge ..[plus].. a wide variety of computer-related training programs.

...In the 11 countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

IATP began in the mid 1990s - aimed at providing .. access and training .. to scholars from Eurasia who had participated in US [gov't] exchange programs. -IATP gradually began to provide Internet access and training to other non-alumni groups such as journalists, lawyers, NGO representatives, and students...

Well that's interesting - considering "Moldova's Twitter Revolution":
"the protesters used their generation’s tools, gathering the crowd by enlisting text-messaging, Facebook and Twitter"....young people have looked to the West [for] economic stability and have defied Mr. Voronin’s government"
And the latest news? It's official! There is a US sponsored Afghanistan (Mili) Twitter-tary in the works:
US troops in Afghanistan can now keep in better contact with their loved ones. The military is launching a Facebook page, Twitter feeds and a YouTube site. Their plan is that it will counter the Taliban, who often publish propaganda on the Internet. ...
And we all know the latest major front in the GWOT is cyberterrorism. Yeah, I'd say things are well on track.

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