Why the #IranElection Revolution could Succeed! Twitter MicroBlogs

By on June 21, 2009 in Uncategorized

Dear Friends

In case you missed our Twitter MicroBlogs here are the highlights:

. Twitter, FaceBook and YouTube: Has 21st century Social Media ripped the veil off ‘the other’… and we see ourselves each time we look?

. Has Tehran’s Tiananmen Square already happened on Twitter? Have protests in 5th Dimension galvanised critical mass in the 4D world of space and time?

. Low probability high impact asymmetric eruption on Iran’s Streets has been met with asymmetric evolution of new media to cover it.

. Iran Elections: A Twitter Revolution? US State Dept asked Twitter to delay scheduled maintenance earlier this week.

. Thanks to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube newspapers worldwide are receiving latest pictures and videos of atrocities committed in Iran post #IranElection.

. In 1979 Tehran Streets filled with people following a leader; 2009 streets are filled with people following each other as ONE via new media!

. New media’s enabling the fracture of Space-Time which has divided world’s people via culture, distance and time zone boundaries.

. Rise of collective consciousness? Accumulated suspicion, fear and alienation from 30 years of Iran-West hostility is going down as the human cry goes up!

. It’s impossible not to feel connected to Social Media users risking life and limb. Berlin Wall went down in 1989 and Mental Walls are coming down in 2009!

. Just read #IranElection messages on Twitter, Facebook and watch YouTube videos. They are like a million SOS messages to the world and the world’s responding!

. Overarching feeling in #IranElection Social Media messages despite misspelling and punctuation errors etc is the immediacy and the potency!

. New Media Rules: One Person = One Broadcaster. Twitter, FaceBook and YouTube are shifting balance forever. Dying news-media failing to catch up?!!

. Neda or Call: In Iran, a few deaths may have many asymmetric consequences as revolution runs through a full cycle on social media over and over again.

. Whatever the outcome #IranElection has proved that Twitter, FaceBook and YouTube are as significant and paradigm shifting as Telephone, Radio, Television, Personal Computer and World Wide Web were!

. What has happened in Iran could happen anywhere. The power is shifting asymmetrically to the people via new media technologies.

[ENDS]

We apologise for any errors or omissions on our part. We welcome your thoughts, observations and views. To reflect further on this, please respond within Twitter, Linked and Facebook’s ATCA Open and related discussion platform of HQR.

All the best

DK Matai

Chairman and Founder: mi2g.net, ATCA, The Philanthropia, HQR, @G140

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About dk.matai

DK Matai is an engineer turned entrepreneur and philanthropist with a keen interest in the well being of global society. DK founded mi2g in 1995, the global risk specialists, in London, UK, whilst developing simulations for his PhD at Imperial College.

DK helped found ATCA - The Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance - in 2001, a philanthropic expert initiative to address complex global challenges through Socratic dialogue and joint executive action to build a wisdom based global economy. ATCA addresses opportunities and threats arising from climate chaos, radical poverty, organised crime, extremism, informatics, nanotechnology, robotics, genetics, artificial intelligence and financial systems.  ATCA has 5,000+ distinguished members from over 100 countries: including several from the House of Lords, House of Commons, EU Parliament, US Congress & Senate, G10's Senior Government officials and over 1,500 CEOs from financial institutions, scientific corporates, NGOs and 750+ Profs from academic centres of excellence. ATCA Open is active on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Philanthropy - DK co-founded The Philanthropia in 2005 - to include the Trinity Club, Syndicates and Ethical Investment Funds - with 1,000 leading philanthropists, family offices, foundations, private banks, NGOs and specialist advisors to resolve complex global challenges through collaborative & sustained efforts. DK's other voluntary interests are Sant Bani (Voice of Saints), a culturally diverse fellowship dedicated to the unity of humankind; World Future Council's Board of Advisors and Donors; The Shirley Foundation; Oxford Internet Institute at University of Oxford; Tomorrow's Company and The Trinity Forum, where he advises on a pro bono basis.

Honours - DK was selected to present knowledge management to The Queen in 1998 and mi2g won The Queen's Award for Enterprise in the category of Innovation for Bespoke Security Architecture in 2003. This led to a visit to Buckingham Palace, a celebration hosted at Lloyd's of London, and by The Lord Mayor at Mansion House, followed by a joint visit to Zurich, Switzerland.

Innovation - DK spends about half of his time innovating with mi2g teams focused on digital banking, digital risk management and bespoke security architecture for major financial institutions, government agencies and multi-nationals in Europe, America and Asia. DK believes passionately that the next generation of private and corporate banking involves the global safe custody of valuable data and intellectual property alongside financial deposits with "guaranteed security". D2-Banking is holistic and includes the online vaulting of genomic maps and medical records; art, photo, music and video collections; digital messages and personal files including wills, deeds and memoirs; and other intellectual property alongside traditional financial services.

Authority - DK is an authority on countering complex global threats; strategic risk management & visualisation; contingency planning; Information Operations (IO); electronic defence; biometric authentication; secure payment systems and Open Source hardened kernel solutions. He is an invited contributor to defence and global security analysis in the UK, USA, EU, Canada, Switzerland, Japan and India. mi2g intelligence has been cited by several government agencies including NISCC in the UK, FBI in the US and United Nations agencies in New York and Geneva.

Background - DK is a British subject, a Freeman of the City of London, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, and a member of the Institute of Directors and The Institution of Engineering and Technology. He has worked formerly in the R&D labs of IBM, Inmos, ST Microelectronics and Helvar Electrosonic on Massive Parallel Processing and supercomputing applications. He enjoys meeting people, sharing thoughts, reading history and learning languages. He is vegetarian, teetotal and an optimist. He has lived in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America and he now lives with his family in Europe, with London as hub.

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