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Meeting with friends from the civil society

Meeting with not so civil circle of activists

Sea of people, meeting points, descended on the square from 4 directions

Agenda know, but who are the people!

Parties trying to contain it

Tear gassed, rubber bulleted out of the square

Skirmishes in Cairo, full scale war in the coastal city of Suez

12 million people, difference between MSM and SN

two tracks

Agenda

Tactics

Egypt freedom of assembly, one foot in cyber space

Blogs were social network before the social network

Sit in organised in Wiki. Twitter used politically for the first time

Malek detention, Blaine Cook Nov 19, 2008

engineer Blaine Cook, formerly Twitter’s Chief Architect.

Cook said that it costs around $20,000-30,000 for a short code in the US and you can send as many SMS’s as you like. He mentioned that Twitter got a bill for $37,000 in Egypt for only 6000 Twitter users.

Cook said that SMS is successful on the person-to-person scale – 40 SMS cost $3 – which is not expensive for an individual user. But when you’re an organization and you have to multiply the spend to 40,000 people, that costs $30,000. Cook said, “SMS is the one technology that the more you send out the more expensive it is, instead of cheaper like most technology.”

Twitter>Jaiku>Twitter 15 September 2008

We took on Twitter long before we took on Mubarak

Iran Spring 2009

Facebook

We pitched a tent

Egypt still restricts freedom of assembly

2 more sit ins

Political process not inclusive, coalition government like Germany

Tunisia trigger, torture, internet and Facebook the context. Problems are structural

Tahrir will happen again, p2p social tools, p2p infrastructure

p2p begins to change the world so that our comrades in Bahrain go out knowing they will not be butchered again

25.1.2 Move to Jaiku

After Twitter's decision to stop SMS support in all countries except US, UK and India, the Doweiqa rockslide triggered another need for networked communication while on the move. Talking to Malek over the phone, he asked me to spread the news on Jaiku. On 15 September 2008, Malek sent a tweet from the web http://twitter.com/MaLek/statuses/922159676 asking if anyone needs Jaiku invites (Jaiku is still in beta at the time). A number of people had Jaiku accounts already. Malek's tweet, however, revitalised those users, and invited helped to move the rest of the blogger/activist network over to Jaiku. By 19 September 2008, the move was almost complete.Thank Mostafa for the help on this one. We are chatting on midnight 24 September 2008. He pointed my attention to the swift move. I added this is a good time to introduce the decentralised, open social network now, as the situation helps explain how it is superior.

Mostafa wrote:

MalekX, after weeks of twitter announced end of SMS to international users, decided to twitter about Jaiku with enthuthiasm and started to send invites. He also blogged about it and created a how to help people enter their phone numbers.

I think people who were reluctant at first decided to migrate when they found a considerable number of people joining the other network .. and most importantly found out that conversations started to take place in the new land

secondly some decided not to cut off communication with their original network by using ping.fm

tab3an, when people found out that SMS worked they were convinced with the migration

however now people are doubtful of Malek's prophecy and are making a golden calf

also malek responded with technical support to people who wanted help with jaiku

his first message mentioning Jaiku invitations http://twitter.com/MaLek/statuses/922159676

I guess the migration was almost complete by the 19th of September

Mostafa then, being the geek he is, continued:

you can plot the number of twitters from the core members of the network 23:59:53 Mostafa Hussein over time 00:00:58 Mostafa Hussein and plot the number of jaikus from the same core members and superimpose them to get an idea of the migration .. ya3ny tab3an this is difficult bas will be interesting

25.1.3 Jaiku

On 6 December 2008, Ahmad Abdelfattah sent a Jaiku message saying 'arrested'. Abdelfattah was taking part in a caravan to break the siege on Gaza. Several other caravans were stopped on the way before crossing into Sinai. This was the first caravan to go after the Administrative Court decided the police will not stop such caravans. The caravan started in front of the State Council, and a press conference was planned in the Journalists Syndicate in case of abortion. Ahmad was reportedly picked up in front of the Syndicate and was kept for the day between Doqqi Police Station and State Security Headquarters in Doqqi, until he was released early evening. Abdefattah was picked up from the street before he reached the busses. Blogger and journalist Sarah Carr followed the case upclose. I notified Gamal Eid of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Infromation, who made sure a lawyer is sent. I was informed by Mohamed Gaber.

http://scarr.jaiku.com/presence/50064869

Bloggers Mohamed Adel and Mohamed Khairy had been respectively kidnapped and detained for trying to join similar caravans in the past months.

Mostafa started http://jaiku.com/channel/gaza during the Israeli assault on Gaza between Chirsmas and New Year 2008

