let me say first a word about this this
is a vuvuzela and unless you were living
under a rock you know that this one had
caused a lot of buzz recently and it's
been really a big scandal and
particularly in a number of countries
that have not been used to this
instrument which makes a huge noise a
lot of South Africa's actually use this
to support their teams all the time
during various tournaments and it's also
a means of expression and what would
this have to do with empty censorship or
sir convention who you may ask well it's
actually a kind of expression that is
unique similar to a tweet video or a
post or a blog perhaps even a news
article it's all a matter of expressing
something you may have heard that some
teams have blamed the vuvuzela for their
defeat mostly had blamed his mess on the
Mozilla and others have also said that
with Mozilla's are indeed a big crisis a
big issue that need to be eliminated or
banned altogether but isn't this
reminiscent of what we've been facing in
the media industry in the internet
industry many people have found that
news websites are noisy sometimes they
create a lot of racket and trouble for
the government's and my website in
particular it's called Yemen portal and
it's a dissident it has dissident
content about the Yemeni government and
it had been publishing a lot of them in
recent years yet the government had
decided that this is noisy and it needed
to be eliminated and banned altogether
that's why it's been censored in 2008
yet in response to this I've gathered
all those articles that have been
censored not only on my website but all
Yemeni websites that have been censored
were put in one portal and that portal
was accessible by anyone I wanted to
tell the citizens of emm that this is
what the Yemeni government doesn't want
you to look at this is what is being
censored and you need to know what is
being hidden from you I allowed them to
access this part of my website through
an anonymizer and if you know anonymizer
zar tools that allow you to circumvent
and use an alternative proxy yet at the
same time I realized that this is
suming bandwidth so I invented a
solution and called little castle it's
available at Castle calm and it means to
circumvent or in Arabic it's used for
the middle is primarily and it saves
bandwidth and I'm using an internal
integrated web browser the type develop
and whenever you enter a URL in that
spot over there if it's blocked it will
take you to the tunnel and if it's not
it will take you directly so you can see
how much bad whip it will save so it
will not go all the way to the proxy for
all websites that's something unique and
it's developed for the first time in the
world another thing is that it uses
technology used commonly by VPNs it's
called VPN split tunneling and it allows
you to go through corporate networks or
internet based on whether you're on one
of those and it's in fact very helpful
in terms of reducing bandwidth and
allowing people to engage it
differentiates between what censored and
what's not and then it allows people to
engage and it maps censorship and makes
people know what is being hidden and
what I'm doing this is for the real
freedom of man people need to understand
that they're free and should act and be
strong about it and one of the issues
that I've had is that I've been under
risk before I had my car vandalized once
but that doesn't matter it's a risk
worth taking and a lot of my friends had
an colleagues including Mideast youth
another 2009 fellow of mine had
supported me Esther I Chevy is her name
a lot of people know that we're making a
difference in their lives but let us
continue let us support them because we
should never let them down thank you
very much
vm is underwritten the filming of the
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or an idea worth spreading and because
of IBM they now have the opportunity to
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all about innovation not just the
innovation we do within the company but
the innovation we work with other people
and organizations to do TED Fellows
really encourages that encourages people
to take their ideas matching execute on
it and that's a great marriage to be
able to drive the next wave of change an
advancement at Ted global we have a
demonstration called Edison about the
smart and intelligent generation of
energy the future of the how energy
would be produced and consumed by
sources such as conventional power
generation plants solar energy renewable
sources of energy wind and new consumers
a vegetative electric car saw them the
key problems that affect society today
require a different way of thinking and
a different way of coming up with
solutions IBM's initiative around
smarter planet is looking at the biggest
problems we have water infrastructure
medicine etc and Ted is providing a
venue to get all the thinkers of the
world together and working with IBM I
think we can bring both communities
together to really reach that global
forum