There are many people working in the background with "OPEN SYSTEMS" (open government, open education, open standards, open source, etc) in mind, those people are actively working outside iraq contacting organisations and universities asking for help, also looking at colaboration grants (EU initiatives), etc. There is a symposium being arranged at the end of January with university heads from Iraq as well as university professors here in the UK on ways to go forward.
Just a couple of things to remember, there is a large cadre of Iraqi graduates and post graduates from western universities who are more than capable, also the old regime forced over 4 million Iraqis to immegrate alot of them are young and most of them are university graduates and highly educated, whether they return to Iraq or not, their contributin will be astounding.
So yes, it might be true that there are a couple of "our boys" in the front, but they can rest assured they have "an army" support from many inside and outside Iraq.
Slashdot Mirror
Thats not true.
There are many people working in the background with "OPEN SYSTEMS" (open government, open education, open standards, open source, etc) in mind, those people are actively working outside iraq contacting organisations and universities asking for help, also looking at colaboration grants (EU initiatives), etc. There is a symposium being arranged at the end of January with university heads from Iraq as well as university professors here in the UK on ways to go forward.
Just a couple of things to remember, there is a large cadre of Iraqi graduates and post graduates from western universities who are more than capable, also the old regime forced over 4 million Iraqis to immegrate alot of them are young and most of them are university graduates and highly educated, whether they return to Iraq or not, their contributin will be astounding.
So yes, it might be true that there are a couple of "our boys" in the front, but they can rest assured they have "an army" support from many inside and outside Iraq.
Hakim George