As Globe and Mail reporters Matt Hartley and Omar El Akkad described in their recent story on Iran's election protests, that country's largest series of public demonstrations in three decades has a technological flavour that few others have had - in part because anti-government activists have been using Twitter and other Web tools to exchange information.
These tools have become so important to the situation in Iran that the U.S. State Department actually asked Twitter executives to reschedule a maintenance outage they had planned, so that people in Iran could continue to use it to broadcast information about the situation in their country. A group of Canadian computer experts have also been helping these efforts by using software they developed known as Psiphon, which has the ability to route around government blockages.
Join us at 2 p.m. for a live discussion with Matt and Omar, along with the Globe's communities editor and social-media expert Mathew Ingram.
