by Dave Duarte. On Sunday 1st May 2011, Barack Obama announced that Osama Bin-Laden had been killed. The strike against his compound in Pakistan was not televised, but it was tweeted. The thing is, Al-Qaida was already looking irrelevant after the “Arab Spring” – the social-media enabled revolutions that occurred throughout the Middle-East in early 2011.
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The end of the digital devide
The digital devide is no more. Rudy-Nadler Nir argues that with 74% of the world’s population using cellphones there can be no digital divide.