Tag Archives: Israel
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Censorship: the nuclear option
Some governments shut down telecom networks including the Internet to control dissent. Others do not. What are the conditions that give rise to the former action? Why do others not do this? Israel never shuts down telecom networks but Sri Lanka does. Why?
And yet the Twittering goes on. As [...]
Over 200,000 in Jaffna deprived of phone service now for two months
Dialog Telekom took a courageous step in 2002, deciding within weeks of the Cease Fire Agreement being signed that it would supply telecom services to the people of the North and East who had been excluded from the country’s telecom revolution for so long, because of the conflict and the military’s prohibition of service in [...]
Mobile masts to measure rainfall
Interesting link between ICT network growth and LIRNEasia’s interest in applying ICTs to disaster preparedness:
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Mobile masts signal rain showers
“The signals from mobile phone masts have been used to measure rainfall patterns in Israel, scientists report.
A team from the University of Tel Aviv analysed information routinely collected by mobile networks to [...]
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