Can P2P help Burma?
p2pnet news | P2P:- Can the Net make a difference in Burma where millions of lives are in danger because the military junta refuses to allow foreign aide inside for cyclone victims?
P2P has, for the first time in history, put ordinary people on the same level of the Powers that Used to Be, allowing anyone with online connections to freely and openly share information and data once tightly and exclusively controlled governments and corporations.
Now “People power” via the Net, “could help shame Myanmar [Burma] into accepting foreign assistance for cyclone victims,” according to British prime minister Gordon Brown, quoted by Agence France-Presse.
“Hailing the Internet as a modern force for change, Brown said the web meant the tragedy – which is thought to have left some 134,000 people dead or missing – could no longer be kept a secret,” says the story.
“Direct people power is going to be a force not just for individual countries but for foreign policy as well,” Brown told a conference, also suggesting the genocide in Rwanda, “might not have been met with “such silence” if it had occurred in the internet age”.
With respect to Burma, he predicted, “whether it is famine, cyclone or whatever, pressure from the people is going to force government interaction,” says the Telegraph.
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Agence France-Presse – Internet can force change in Myanmar: Brown, May 19, 2008
Telegraph – The internet will shame Burma’s junta, says Gordon Brown, May 1, 2008
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May 20th, 2008 at 4:39 am
Why doesn’t the US intervene in Burma, as obviously the ruling power cares nothing for the people? Not enough resources to be controlled? Why not set up a democracy there? Not really interested in helping people in need in times of disaster?
May 20th, 2008 at 8:56 am
It’s just that every time we do that sort of thing, people all over the world complain and call us imperialists. Damned if you do; damned if you don’t.
Also, P2P will only help Burma if they are in dire need of the latest Britney Spears track.