Questi giorni sono indubbiamente segnati da quello che sta succedendo nei paesi della costa meridionale del Mediterraneo e del Medio Oriente: la rivolta in Tunisia che ha costretto alla fuga il dittatore Ben Ali, le grandi manifestazioni che stanno aprendo una breccia sempre più larga nel regime Mubarak and the results of which are as yet unpredictable, the spread of protest movements throughout the region, from Algeria to Yemen, from Morocco to Lebanon, not to mention the crisis of Western governments, who see the collapse of its own, ill-chosen, allies. I have already spoken in the "account" number. 198 and I think I'll talk about yet, because these riots mark a historic step is extremely important.
with some emphasis, several commentators have described these riots as the first technological era, a sort of revolution 2.0. I have read, as I imagine you've made many comments that have described the role of bloggers and the spread of the slogans of the revolt through Twitter and Facebook. I feel that focusing too much on this, distract us from some other basic concepts.
remember that just over two years ago many had Obama as the first U.S. president elected by the network. Certainly Obama, by age and intellectual curiosity, is the first American president who wields these tools with confidence and certainly those who have worked - and works - along with him well knows how to use the potential of the network. A little 'time ago I wrote a "consideration" on the subject - the nr. 32, to be precise - and, as I wrote then, I continue to be updated, at least two or three times a week, about what the U.S. administration is doing, molto meglio che la triste newsletter dei nostri governi, di destra e di sinistra. Nonostante tutto questo, ricordo però un lungo reportage di Time sulla campagna elettorale di Obama, in cui venivano descritti gli uffici dei volontari rione per rione, cittadina per cittadina, i volantinaggi per strada, il porta a porta, in sostanza tutti gli strumenti più old che si potesse immaginare. Il fatto di guardare a quegli avvenimenti da lontano e per lo più attraverso la rete, ci aveva fatto scambiare il mezzo per la sostanza e fatto dare un giudizio sbagliato.
Credo che alla fine scopriremo qualcosa del genere anche sugli avvenimenti di queste settimane. Ogni paese ha le proprie caratteristiche e quindi we must be careful not to make judgments generic. Tunisia has an education level higher than that of Egypt, however, in these two countries, the illiteracy level reached respectively 22 and 33.6%. In Egypt, at least one third of the population is excluded from the network because they can not read and write. According to data from June 2010, in Egypt on a total population of 77 million people, there are 182,017 hosts, or terminals connected to a network or more specifically the Internet : they are 2.4 per 1,000 inhabitants. Moreover, Egypt is one of the African countries - excluding South Africa is a world apart - where the network is more widespread. In countries as poor access levels Internet and use of social network is very small compared to the average Western.
This does not mean that these tools have not played a role, but other than that we may have imagined. The blog and social network have been useful to get around censorship and to keep us informed, in real time, on what was happening in those countries and this has been, particularly in Egypt, an attempt, in part failed to block the information through these channels, as there were threats to Western journalists and the attempt to obscure Al Jazeera. But the voice of the revolt is not passed, or rose only slightly part, on the network, the revolt has spread among people, through dialogue, confrontation, word of mouth.
I believe that, because of how we read this, "digital" of the uprising, there is a missed a key point. The riots in Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt broke out in despair of millions of people who do not know what to eat. Of course there is also a high level of political awareness - which apparently is growing, fortunately - there is a strong bond of faith, but it was impossible to build a future to push many young people to rebellion. We make it increasingly difficult to read the world through the category of poverty, hunger, just because here, in the western world, we defeated - apparently, as we know, if we read more closely what happens in our society - this problem does not mean that this problem in the world does not invest huge masses. The global crisis in Europe has meant for many people the loss of job, for others the loss of home, for many it is impossible to maintain the same standard of living in countries like Egypt has meant - and means - to starve . It will be that the twentieth century is over, so poverty is gone and there is a network that has pushed too many commentators to read these revolts with a distorting lens. Egypt in the twentieth century has not yet begun.
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