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US to build shadow web

US to build shadow web

2011-08-18
Source: Strat Risks


When a wave of revolution crashed over the Middle East this spring, many said what ended in the streets began with 140 characters or less — through social media like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.

Hoping to harness the people power of online communication, the US State Department is providing $2 million in grants for the “Internet in a suitcase” to help dissidents circumvent repressive regimes’ Internet censorship with mobile Web technology.

The suitcase is part of the $70 million the US State Department will spend on Internet circumvention technology in 2011.

“It’s part of what Secretary Clinton calls a venture capitalist approach to the wide range of challenges that democracy and human rights activists face in Internet repressive environments around the world,” said Michael Posner, assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor during a July 13 event at the New America Foundation in Washington DC.

The suitcase is designed to give dissidents a mobile web with mesh technology that can run through cell phones and other devices....





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