[liberationtech] Update on African authoritarians

[Richard Brooks]

I don't have answers for that. I have some ideas, but without
the means to put it in place as of yet. I have seen a number
of project ideas, but not anything that seems to be ready
for prime time.

Another problem is that, for example, Gabon is surrounded by
people just as nasty as the regime in Gabon.

On 12/31/2014 05:50 PM, Collin Anderson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Richard Brooks <rrb at g.clemson.edu
> <mailto:rrb at g.clemson.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     All of these countries have active blogger communities. One
>     common fear in these countries is a nationwide communications
>     (Internet, mobile, phone, etc.) black-out. These seem to
>     happen frequently at politically sensitive moments.
> 
> 
> Please share more on this, at least I have had an interest in
> political-timed infrastructure degradation
> <http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4361> and I suspect others on this list do as
> well.
> 
> 
> -- 
> *Collin David Anderson*
> averysmallbird.com <http://averysmallbird.com> | @cda | Washington, D.C.
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