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Iraq
Google goes to war! Helping Iraqis with digital governance...
Just across the newswires… uber-geeks from Google, Twitter, MeetUp and other high-tech companies have shipped out to Iraq. No, seriously.
Between April 19-23, a gaggle of executives visited Iraq as part of a U.S. State Department tour. The department said that “the executives would offer ideas on how new technologies could help foster transparency, strengthen civil society and generally empower people and local groups by providing the tools for network building.â€
- Channing's blog
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KPFA's War Comes Home Project: Radio Journalism Goes 2.0 - warcomeshome.org
Supporting organization:
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM
URL:
http://warcomeshome.org
Location:
Berkeley, CA
Project Description:
More than 1.6 million Americans have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As of August 1, 2007, 67,000 of them had been killed or wounded. In addition, more than 250,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans had been treated at Veterans Administrations hospitals since their return home from combat.
KPFA launched this website in an effort to put a human face on the conflict. Only by truly listening to the stories of soldiers who've come home, can we appreciate the realities of war and what we can do to help.
July 4th - In honor of those who have given us the greatest gift
Thought this was pretty on the mark with the discussion we had at the Houston NetSquared meeting almost a year ago...
http://www.netsquared.org/blog/jj-lassberg/connecting-with-our-troops
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Last November 1, as the sun rose over a farm near Dover, New Hampshire the Eyes Wide Open crew once again began laying out more than two thousand pairs of boots representing the U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq. But this was not a standard stop on the nation-wide tour of AFSC's acclaimed anti-war exhibit.
The boots were being prepared to play a role in a music video for blues musician Robert Cray's poignant new song, "Twenty", telling the story of a young soldier...
View this amazing video now, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqG_nYAZ9RI >>
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- JJ_Lassberg's blog
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