Anthony Gooden's List: 3.6 Digital Citizenship

• • nullpictures of the collapsing Egypt -- 2013-03-23
    AS EGYPTIANS PROTESTED BY the thousands in the streets of Cairo in the weeks leading up to the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak, the government attempted to respond by cracking down on the media and shutting down the nation's Internet.
    But Mubarak should have known that the shutdown wouldn't prevent top Egyptian cartoonist Sherif Arafa from drawing about the corrupt leadership trying to retain power. After all, the ancient Egyptians were the first civilization in history to have editorial cartoons, so it's fitting that cartoons would come into play in the historic overthrow of Mubarak's government.AS EGYPTIANS PROTESTED BY the thousands in the streets of Cairo in the weeks leading up to the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak, the government attempted to respond by cracking down on the media and shutting down the nation's Internet.
    But Mubarak should have known that the shutdown wouldn't prevent top Egyptian cartoonist Sherif Arafa from drawing about the corrupt leadership trying to retain power. After all, the ancient Egyptians were the first civilization in history to have editorial cartoons, so it's fitting that cartoons would come into play in the historic overthrow of Mubarak's government.AS EGYPTIANS PROTESTED BY the thousands in the streets of Cairo in the weeks leading up to the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak, the government attempted to respond by cracking down on the media and shutting down the nation's Internet.
    But Mubarak should have known that the shutdown wouldn't prevent top Egyptian cartoonist Sherif Arafa from drawing about the corrupt leadership trying to retain power. After all, the ancient Egyptians were the first civilization in history to have editorial cartoons, so it's fitting that cartoons would come into play in the historic overthrow of Mubarak's government. As the protests heightened in Egypt, Mubarak unleashed an attack on international media covering the demonstrations in the street. His supporters assaulted reporters, and security forces obstructed and detained journalists in an effort to stymie coverage of the unrest that eventually brought down his government.Arafa said, now that Mubarak is out, he's noticing changes in the country's national media that make him hopeful about the future of press freedom in Egypt.
    "I'm noticing the return of respected experts who were banned from appearing on Egyptian TV, like Nobel Prize winners Dr. Mohammed El Baradei and Dr. Ahmed Zwail," Arafa said. "TV and newspapers have suddenly become respectfu -- 2013-03-23
    

• Digital Access
• Technology users need to be aware of and support electronic access f
• Digital exclusion of any kind does not enhance the growth of users in an electronic society
• Places or organizations with limited connectivity need to be addressed as well
• Digital Commerce
• Digital
• Technology users need to understand that a large share of market economy is being done electronically. Legitimate and legal exchanges are occurring, but the buyer or seller need to be aware of the issues associated with it. The mainstream availability of Internet purchases of toys, clothing, cars, food, etc. has become commonplace to many users
• Digital Literacy
• process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology
• This process requires sophisticated searching and processing skills
• As new technologies emerge, learners need to learn how to use that technology quickly and appropriately
• Technology users often see this area as one of the most pressing problems when dealing with Digital Citizenship. We recognize inappropriate behavior when we see it, but before people use technology they do not learn digital etiquette
• Often rules and regulations are created or the technology is simply banned to stop inappropriate use
• electronic precautions to guarantee safety
• Digital Security
• same is true for the digital community
• individuals who steal, deface, or disrupt other people
• It is not enough to trust other members in the community for our own safety
• We need to have virus protection, backups of data, and surge control of our equipment
• The same must be true for the digital security

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• Five days after Egypt’s government cut its citizens off from the global Internet, the country has plugged in again
• In fact, the struggle may be just beginning, as pro-government thugs arrive to intimidate protestors and beat up journalists.
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• the government’s total information blackout
• In any modern country
• the head of the Internet desk for Reporters Without Borders, (RSF) keeping millions of people offline simply isn’t a sustainable approach to quelling dissent.
• First, Egypt’s government faced the embarrassment of ignoring international pressure, including from its fairweather friends in the U.S. State Department, to restore its Internet
• which hosted many banks and multi-nationals including Coca-Cola and Egypt Air
• Egypt’s Internet blackout simply came too late to be effective
• If they were afraid that the Internet would be used as a tool of mobilization, it had already played that role.”
• Protesters were in the streets
• Ultimately Egypt faces the same problem as any repressive regime in the digital era
• If they allow Internet to spread within the country, it poses a threat to their regime.
• iltering the “dangerous” parts of the Internet is harder than it seems
• Internet Enemies,” that label comes from its harassment and arrests of bloggers,
• In the first 24 hours of the protests that began on January 25th, the government blocked Twitter.
• But according to RSF’s Morillon, it took the authorities another day to block Facebook
• The digital free speech think tank Citizen Lab warned on its Twitter feed that Egypt may still be monitoring dissent online

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• Read full coverage of the unrest in Egypt updated continually by CNN reporters worldwide. Send your photos and video to iReport and see CNN in Arabic here.
• State Department has offered via Twitter an amended advisory to U.S. citizens in Egypt, saying now that those who wish to depart Egypt on a U.S. government-chartered flight should report to the airport "ASAP after the morning end of curfew."
• Heavy gunfire reverberated in central Cairo early Thursday as anti- and pro-government protesters continued to face off at Tahrir Square.

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• President Mubarak is gone!" Laughing, shouting in relief, hundreds of people, streaming the Egyptian flag above them, began running toward the big screen in Cairo's Tahrir Square last Friday. Two minutes later, the jubilation -- a culmination of over two weeks of an impassioned popular uprising -- ended. It was just a rumour. More than a week after the "March of Millions," a climactic day of mass peaceful protest that was followed by a bloody -- and some say government-staged -- onslaught by supporters of the regime, and the transformation of Tahrir into a barricaded stronghold for the protesters, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak

  • Mubarak is facing the most serious challenge since he took over the government following the assassination of Anwar Sadat in October 1981. The danger is not so much that the Gamaa will seize power. They lack the popular appeal and the talent to take over any time soon. The militants gun down policemen, ambush officials and hostile intellectuals, and terrorize tourists with bombs near the pyramids or the Karnak Temple. The government hits back with equal ferocity. Suspected extremists are rounded up by the score in bloody sweeps that have left many bystanders dead or wounded. The economy stagnated during the 1980s, while external debt rose by nearly 150 percent, from $21 billion to $50 billion. In 1991, with arrears to foreign creditors mounting.Even private businessmen are far from unrestrained admirers of reform. They have spent large sums to obtain permission to operate in Egypt. Protection often makes their plants highly profitable. The last thing they want is relaxed rules that allow competitors entry into their markets.Egyptians may bridle at American interference, but the United States has little choice but to push harder--albeit diplomatically--for reform. Mubarak and Egypt probably have time to make adjustments, but the recent troubles show that they cannot afford to muddle along forever.
    While supporting Mubarak, the United States should avoid adopting a broadly hostile stance toward Islam. The troubles in Egypt may signal that a period of change is coming to the Middle East, which has so far avoided the upheavals that have swept the communist world. The Arab nationalist military regimes that have dominated the Middle Eastern stage for four decades appear to have worn out their welcome. While the Gamaa and other Islamic revolutionaries do not seem to be the Arab world's Václav Havels or Lech Walesas, American policymakers should keep open minds about Arab leaders with strong Islamic credentials--and indeed about other emerging agents of change. A more traditional, Islamic Arab world does not have to be a more anti-American one, unless the United States helps make that happen
    
• remains in power.
• But the protesters have not left Tahrir Square -- it has become a city of tents, with the feel of an organized community. Men and women frisk entrants, food stalls sell sandwiches made by an army of women in the nearby mosque, and doctors give aid at established field centres. "I want to bring some change to my country
• Crackling loudspeakers blare revolutionary prayers and lead the crowds in chants. At times the atmosphere is almost festive. A central stage plays host to Egyptian celebrities and politicians;
• Despite government promises that protesters will remain unharmed, over the last days scores of foreign and Egyptian citizens have been detained in collaborative efforts between military and police forces. "We are very concerned that there is an effort by the military and police to crack down and detain activists, bloggers, and lawyers," says Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director with Human Rights Watch, who is in Cairo. In Tahrir Square, protesters hold a list of over 70 people
• Human Rights Watch calculates that 297 people have died during the uprising. But as it enters its third week, there is no sign that the protesters are losing heart

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• Mubarak is facing the most serious challenge since he took over the government following the assassination of Anwar Sadat in October 1981. The danger is not so much that the Gamaa will seize power. They lack the popular appeal and the talent to take over any time soon
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• Mubarak is facing the most serious challenge since he took over the government following the assassination of Anwar Sadat in October 1981. The danger is not so much that the Gamaa will seize power. They lack the popular appeal and the talent to take over any time soon
• Mubarak is facing the most serious challenge since he took over the government following the assassination of Anwar Sadat in October 1981. The danger is not so much that the Gamaa will seize power. They lack the popular appeal and the talent to take over any time soon
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• U.S. officials grow more supportive as protests continue

    

  Two weeks ago in Qatar, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a warning that was as blunt as it was rare, coming from a senior U.S. official. Without real economic and political reform, Arab leaders will have growing unrest, extremism, and possible rebellion

  • Protes became more and more nerved to info the world about the high food prices and taxes. the world became concerned, so American Secretary of State Hilary Clinton Broadcast that the murders and protest has to stop.
• With demonstrations erupting this week in Yemen and Lebanon, and with hundreds of thousands of Egyptians in the streets outraged over food prices, corruption, and repression, Clinton's warning seems as trenchant as ever
• It is difficult to overstate Egypt's geopolitical importance, both in terms of its geography and its centrality to U.S. efforts in the Middle East. More than 7 percent of the sea-transported global trade passes through the Suez Canal, including 4 percent of the world's oil. Egypt officially recognized the neighboring Israel in 1979
• AS EGYPTIANS PROTESTED BY the thousands in the streets of Cairo in the weeks leading up to the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak, the government attempted to respond by cracking down on the media and shutting down the nation's Internet
• But Mubarak should have known that the shutdown wouldn't prevent top Egyptian cartoonist Sherif Arafa from drawing about the corrupt leadership trying to retain power. After all, the ancient Egyptians were the first civilization in history to have editorial cartoons, so it's fitting that cartoons would come into play in the historic overthrow of Mubarak's government.
• The militants gun down policemen, ambush officials and hostile intellectuals, and terrorize tourists with bombs near the pyramids or the Karnak Temple. The government hits back with equal ferocity. Suspected extremists are rounded up by the score in bloody sweeps that have left many bystanders dead or wounded
• One of the main reasons that the United States has backed Mubarak and other authoritarian regimes is because they oppose Islamic radical groups, like the Brotherhood.
• Mubarak is facing the most serious challenge since he took over the government following the assassination of Anwar Sadat in October 1981. The danger is not so much that the Gamaa will seize power. They lack the popular appeal and the talent to take over any time soon
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• Mubarak is facing the most serious challenge since he took over the government following the assassination of Anwar Sadat in October 1981. The danger is not so much that the Gamaa will seize power. They lack the popular appeal and the talent to take over any time soo
• Egyptian riot police clash with anti-government activists in Cairo.
• The economy stagnated during the 1980s, while external debt rose by nearly 150 percent, from $21 billion to $50 billion. In 1991, with arrears to foreign creditors mountin
• As the protests heightened in Egypt, Mubarak unleashed an attack on international media covering the demonstrations in the street. His supporters assaulted reporters, and security forces obstructed and detained journalists in an effort to stymie coverage of the unrest that eventually brought down his governmen
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• . Even private businessmen are far from unrestrained admirers of reform. They have spent large sums to obtain permission to operate in Egypt. Protection often makes their plants highly profitable. The last thing they want is relaxed rules that allow competitors entry into their markets.
• TV and newspapers have suddenly become

• Egyptians may bridle at American interference, but the United States has little choice but to push harder--albeit diplomatically--for reform. Mubarak and Egypt probably have time to make adjustments, but the recent troubles show that they cannot afford to muddle along forever.

    

  While supporting Mubarak, the United States should avoid adopting a broadly hostile stance toward Islam. The troubles in Egypt may signal that a period of change is coming to the Middle East, which has so far avoided the upheavals that have swept the communist world. The Arab nationalist military regimes that have dominated the Middle Eastern stage for four decades appear to have worn out their welcome. While the Gamaa and other Islamic revolutionaries do not seem to be the Arab world's Václav Havels or Lech Walesas, American policymakers should keep open minds about Arab leaders with strong Islamic credentials--and indeed about other emerging agents of change. A more traditional, Islamic Arab world does not have to be a more anti-American one, unless the United States helps make that happen.

    

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