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To Dubai on an Emirates Airbus 380

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It was easier to say yes than usual: I'd never been to Dubai or the region, and the government of Dubai and Emirates airline offered to fly me there business class! I was surprised a little later to realize that we were flying over Iraq. I had slept through the night and into the late afternoon in the Middle East.

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The Craig Newmark Beneblog Interview

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

These sites should be working together using technology like RSS feeds. Our government's public servants have been released to their jobs better. White House blogs, open government initiatives. They can build technology like All for Good, that help people connect. Help build tools that allow us to look into government.

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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

government also has its own problems with networked activists. After massive leaks of documents on the Iraq and Afghan wars and diplomatic cables from around the world, Wikileaks has demonstrated that it is a formidable threat to American legitimacy and power.

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Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World

Forum One

Currently, we are working on building clientele in Doha, Qatar as we continue to work with longtime partners the Supreme Education Council and the Supreme Council of Information Communication and Technology. Tags: Influence Events Collaboration Communication Events Government. We're excited to be part of this new movement.

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The Shrinking Generational Digital Divide

NTEN

The arrival of the Internet in the mid-1990s plus advancing communication technology means children of the current generation are growing up as native users of the Internet, email, text and instant messaging, blogging, tweeting, gaming and a host of other cyber vehicles. One obvious reason for the generational digital divide is timing.

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Revamped Politics Online Conference Ready for Its Closeup - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Session on Does web 2.0 work in Politics.

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Wikileaks War Data Reveal Underreporting of Iraqi Civilian Casualties

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A Guest Beneblog by Anita Gohdes, Jeff Klingner, Megan Price and Patrick Ball The recent release of almost 400,000 secret US military files on the war in Iraq through Wikileaks has attracted wide media coverage. This new evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that IBC’s press data underreport small events in Iraq.

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