Biased information spreads like a virus, it’s toxic, mutates, infects and is potentially life threatening! It is implicated in some of the worst atrocities in human history from the Holocaust to the Rwandan Genocide. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Information’
Genocide and the spread of biased information
Posted: November 6, 2011 in AnalysisTags: genocide, Information, Media, Rwanda
Information technology super-charging Rwanda’s economy, Country aspires to become a regional high-tech hub
Posted: April 14, 2011 in Evidence MaterialTags: 1994, Africa Renewal, Business, genocide, Information, Paul Kagame, Rwanda
By Masimba Tafirenyika–From Africa Renewal, April 2011, page 18
A luxury commuter bus pulls up by the kerb to pick up passengers. A young woman quickly jumps in, retrieves a smart card from her wallet and swipes it against a machine next to the driver. A buzzer approves the swipe and the woman takes a seat by the window. (more…)
Genocidists And Saviours in Rwanda
Posted: January 13, 2011 in Evidence MaterialTags: 1994, Alison Des Forges, Christians, Church, Civilians, discrimination, Ethnic, Extremists, France, French, genocide, Howard Adelman, Hutu, Information, injustice, International Law, Lake Victoria, Media, Melissa Orlie, Michael Walzer, moral bankruptcy, Nazi Holocaust, Notre Dame University, Operation Turquoise, preventable, Purity, Religion, Romeo Dallaire, Rwanda, Saviours, Tutsi, UN, UNAMIR, World War
By Howard Adelman
In 1994, between 6 April and mid- July—a period of 99 days of mayhem—approximately 500,000-800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu were slaughtered in Rwanda in a systematically planned genocide. (more…)
The Internet, Information Architecture and Community Memory
Posted: January 13, 2011 in Genocide DenialTags: Armenian Genocide, Catholic Church, Charity, Community, Electronic, Ernst Zundel, Filip Reyntjens, France, genocide, Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Hutu, Hutu extremists, Information, Internet, Memory, Online, Patrick Carmichae, Patrick Carmichael, Revisionists, Rwanda, Survivors, Tutsi, UK, United Nations, United States, Victims
By Patrick Carmichael, University of Reading, UK
Abstract
This article reviews current technological developments, particularly Peer-to-Peer technologies and Distributed Data Systems, and their value to community memory projects, particularly those concerned with the preservation of the cultural, literary and administrative data of cultures which have suffered genocide or are at risk of genocide. (more…)
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