[liberationtech] US State Dept Discourages Using Technology to Promote Democracy, Human Rights, and Citizen Engagement in Ukraine?

[Jillian C. York]

Yes, that's a longer version of my first comment.
On Mar 22, 2013 5:29 PM, "David Golumbia" <dgolumbia at gmail.com> wrote:

> the whole thing is not a big deal, but i will risk repeating myself: the
> original comment on this list overlooked the phrase " *unless they have
> an explicit component related to the requested program objectives listed
> above*," and this is actually a solicitation *for *proposals, not an
> effort to discourage them. The original "discourage" comment was just
> trying to ensure that proposals were area- and program-specific. State has
> already modified the page to make this clear, perhaps in reaction to
> comments such as the original one on this list:
> http://www.state.gov/j/drl/p/206488.htm. It's now clear that there is no
> intent to discourage applications.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Jillian C. York <jilliancyork at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I just really don't see why this is a big deal.  So State's funding
>> priorities for tech stuff aren't about those subjects.  So what?
>>
>
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