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The 7 Ways Digital Tech Helps Activists. The pro-democracy activists in Egypt have been granted their first demand: Hosni Mubarak, dictatorial president for 30 years, has resigned.

The 7 Ways Digital Tech Helps Activists

It is too early to do a post-mortem on the Egyptian revolution as a decapitation at the top cannot cure the corrupt and dictatorial Egyptian state. The activists in the streets know this, know their work has only just begun. Yet it is an appropriate time to begin a post-mortem of the unprecedented mass mobilizations that brought Egypt to this previously unimaginable moment, particularly the role of digital technology. Just now the complex interplay of online and offline activism and organizing is becoming clear, elucidated by recent articles in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, as well as first-person testimony by digital activist Wael Ghonim, who has become a central spokesperson for the youth movement that organized the protests.

Jared Cohen: “It Will Be Easier To Start Revolutions, But They Will Be Just As Hard To Finish” If you want to understand what is going on at the nexus of technology and youth protest movements around the world, watch this video.

Jared Cohen: “It Will Be Easier To Start Revolutions, But They Will Be Just As Hard To Finish”

Jared Cohen, who is a director at Google Ideas writing a book with Eric Schmidt and previously was an advisor to the State Department, gave the presentation above at Techonomy. Cohen studied firsthand the Green Revolution in Iran, and then the Arab Spring. He noticed that young people in Iran were using Bluetooth, but not for wireless headsets, but rather as a technology to communicate peer-to-peer.

How connective tech boosts political change. Media and government, amongst others, have been disrupted by citizens with internet connections, say Ross.

How connective tech boosts political change

Media and government have been disrupted by citizens with internet connections, say Ross"Connection technologies" are technologies that connect people to information and each otherRoss runs through the impacts of connection technologies on political movements Editor's note: Alec Ross serves as Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, where he is tasked with maximizing the potential of technology and innovation in service of America's diplomatic goals and stewarding Secretary of State Clinton's 21st Century Statecraft agenda.