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Iran - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about egovernment activities in Iran.
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- Iran launches its personal version of YouTube, called 'Mehr'
- Submitted by Neelesh Raghuwanshi. Top News, Monday 10 December 2012. "Iran's personal `YouTube' has been launched and it's called 'Mehr'. The country banned YouTube since 2009 and has now come up with a government approved site where users can view videos online. Rumor has it that Iran is working on developing an Intranet for the whole country, this would have a complete control of the government to restrict people's access to websites, films and other online material..."
Added: 11 December 2012;
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- Iran cuts off Internet access
- by Charles Cooper. CNet, February 10, 2012. "Iran has cut off access to the Internet, leaving millions of people without access to e-mail and social networks. An individual inside the country confirmed this morning that Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo email are no longer available. Ditto for Facebook. So far, the government has not made any announcement about the service interruption..."
Added: 13 February 2012;
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- The Digital Dictatorship
- The Wall Street Journal, February 20, 2010. "It's fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a very effective tool for quashing freedom. Evgeny Morozov on the myth of the techno-utopia..."
Added: 25 February 2010;
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- With unrest in Iran, cyber-attacks begin
- Activists have knocked key Iranian websites offline, By Robert McMillan, San Francisco. Computerworld, Wednesday, 17 June, 2009. "An apparently ad-hoc cyber protest against the results of recent Iranian elections has knocked key websites off-line. On Monday, sites belonging to Iranian news agencies, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, were knocked off-line after activists opposed to the Iranian government posted tools designed to barrage these websites with traffic..."
Added: 18 June 2009;
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- Iran's leaders fight Internet; Internet wins (so far)
- Being dependent on the Net means having to live with it, by Patrick Thibodeau (Computerworld). CIO, 18 June, 2009. "Iran's government in recent days has tried to cut off Internet access for most of its election protestors by shutting down routers at the nation's perimeters, ripping satellite dishes off roofs, cutting cables and turning off telephone switching networks..."
Added: 18 June 2009;
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- Twitter opened door on Iranian election (while offline media stayed silent)
- by Craig Thomler. eGov AU - Craig Thomler's personal eGovernment thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Iranian citizens are using twitter to protest the election results have been rigged.
Added: 18 June 2009;
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This category last updated: 11 December 2012
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