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by gtdonovan on December 6, 2011 at 2:00 pm · Filed under Clinton, cybercity, dialogue, diplomacy, embassy, globalization, governance, identity, Iran, link, obama, SecurityPod
From the article: “More than three decades after the bricks-and-mortar U.S. embassy in Tehran was shuttered and diplomatic relations with Iran were severed following the Islamic revolution and hostage crisis, the Obama administration has opened a virtual embassy for Iran to encourage dialogue with the Iranian people.”
by gtdonovan on November 14, 2011 at 1:47 pm · Filed under boundaries, commerce, cybercity, cybercrime, cyberwar, e-commerce, geoeconomics, geography, quotes, uk, William Hague
From British Foreign Secretary William Hague’s 10/18/2011 guest editorial in Spiegel :
Web-based industry has already become a critical part of our economies. The UK’s industry is already worth £100 billion, accounting for 8% of our total GDP, and is forecast to grow at 10 percent over the next four years. Globally, e-commerce sees $8 trillion change hands each year …
Our reliance on cyber blurs geographical boundaries, breaks down traditional cultural and religious divides, brings families and friends closer together and enables contact between those who share common interests or concerns.
by gtdonovan on September 21, 2011 at 11:49 am · Filed under affinity politics, Berlin, cybercity, elections, governance, identity, link, media politics, participation, pirate party, privacy
From the article: “By winning 8.9 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election in [Berlin], these political pirates surpassed — blew away, really — every expectation for what was supposed to be a fringe, one-issue party promoting Internet freedom. The Pirates so outstripped expectations that all 15 candidates on their list won seats … The question that members of Germany’s political establishment are now asking after the insurgent party stormed the statehouse is this: Are the Pirates merely the punch line to a joke, a focus of protest, a reflection of electoral disgust with all established political parties — or an exciting experiment in a new form of online democracy?”
by gtdonovan on September 10, 2011 at 6:51 pm · Filed under cybercity, grafffiti, greenpoint, identity, image, luddite, robots
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