I know that USIP has just started a PeaceTech initiative that provides tech-related foreign aid for peacebuilding. You can look up their PeaceTech camps in Iraq (and soon in other locations). I believe the initiative has come out of the Science, Technology and Peacebuilding innovation centre at USIP: http://www.usip.org/programs/centers/science-technology-and-peacebuilding
Hope that helps. Helena On 20 May 2014 02:24, Terry Winograd <winog...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > Zak, the person who is best qualified to talk to you about this here is > Larry Diamond. I know there have been USAID programs and others, but don't > know the details. > --t > > > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Zak Whittington <zakwh...@stanford.edu>wrote: > >> I am interested in studying what current initiatives the US federal >> government has regarding technology-related foreign aid. >> >> I imagine the US government provided either hardware or technical >> training to dissidents in some of the recent uprisings in the Middle East >> and elsewhere in the world, but I can't find much credible evidence of this >> online. >> >> Anyone know of any good sources covering this, or any US agencies that >> are focused on tech-related aid? >> >> Best, >> Zak Whittington >> >> >> -- >> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations >> of list guidelines will get you moderated: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. >> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at >> compa...@stanford.edu. >> > > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu. > -- blog: http://letthemtalk.org/ twitter: https://twitter.com/helenapuigl skype id: hpuiglarrauri mobile #: +34 628 529 649; +1 415 359 7901 meetme: http://www.doodle.com/helenapuig
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