Rebuilding Iraq's Internet

Anselm writes "According to this article at Wired.com, "The war has left Iraq's Internet infrastructure in shambles. Now, a British ISP hopes to fund the reconstruction through sales of domain names ending in .iq." While I have no use for an IQ domain, the article does make me wonder: Should geeks around the world take the lead in getting Iraq back online?"

Comments

Before commenting on Iraq read this....

[Joey7F]

I have seen too many people making references to Iraq by appending other country's values to it. So read this from the CIA

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ iz.html

It has information like literacy rates, religions, etc. I was surprised by a few things, for example, I thought all Iraqis were Arabs, but it turns out there are a fair amount of Turks, Assyrians etc.

I hope they can become a shining example of democracy in a region that is dominated by dictators.

After all, Italy, Germany and Japan have it pretty well now!

--Joey

Priorities

[90XDoubleSide]

Should geeks around the world take the lead in getting Iraq back online?

Absolutely, but not before giving at least a small contribution to the World Food Programme, which is in desperate need of funds to combat starvation in both Iraq and sub-Saharan Africa at the same time. Then there will be enough people alive to use the internet!