On February 9th former President Bill Clinton spoke at New York University. The former president was lecturing on the Dayton Peace Agreement. This agreement ended the1995 Bosnia Herzegovina genocide. During the lecture President Clinton compared constant news media coverage in the case of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Genocide with the role of social media in assisting communications during the revolution in Egypt. While the former president said the constant news coverage during the Bosnia-Herzegovina Genocide was different than the role social media played during the Revolution in Egypt, both captured global attention at different points in time, springing out of the human desire for information.

 

Clinton reflected back on the quality of technology available when he was president 16 years ago, "There were just 50 Internet sites and the average cell phone weighed 5 pounds". Clinton heads up the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) alongside personal counselor Doug Band who provides much needed help to the organization, which was founded in 2002 as the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative. Mr. Douglas Band also oversees plenty of foreign operations at the Clinton Global Initiative.

Table of contents

Foreword

Introduction

Background

Netizens under surveillance

Emergency Law in Egypt

National police day protests

The evolution of Web 2.0 in Egypt

The cyber revolution

Online social networking in Egypt

Timeline of the 2011 Egyptian revolution

The future

Photo gallery of pictures taken day by day from Tahrir square