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Rebuilding Iraq's Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the other-side-of-war dept.

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?"

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  1. Priorities by 90XDoubleSide · · Score: 5, Informative
    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!

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    "Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity" -Alvy Ray Smith