[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“A diverse group of creative people, all geeks in their own
right but not all ‘techies,’ decided to give the people of Iraq an
opportunity to speak freely to a large audience about their
experiences living in the midst of a war. These geeks, who call
themselves Streamtime, decided to perform a Web radio experiment:
they would train Iraqis to use Dyne:bolic and other free software
to create instant Internet broadcasts wherever there was a computer
and Internet access. In the summer of 2004, Streamtime packed up
and traveled from Amsterdam to Iraq, surviving bombings and hack
attacks in their quest to bring freedom of expression to a country
on a rollercoaster of victory and violence. The experiment has
ended, but the mission continues.“Jo van der Spek, a man some have described as an ‘activist
radiomaker,’ is the founder of Streamtime…”