Wadah Khanfar at the TED Conference 2011. Khanfar is the Director General for the Al-Jazeera news network. Everything that he's talking about involves new media tools, the kind of tools and ways of communication that, for the most part, we're not teaching much about in our schools. Twitter, Facebook, SMS, citizen journalism, flash mobs, and youtube videos just enabled a revolution against a totalitarian regime that had relied on old media (state-run newspapers, television, and radio) as a way to maintain power. As Khanfar says, these are countries with BILLION dollar armies taken down by a bunch of young idealistic kids with cellphones. Clay Shirky is so right.
Find his TedTalk here. It is seventeen minutes well spent.
Find his TedTalk here. It is seventeen minutes well spent.
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