Web 2.0 Execs in Iraq Tweet Hop

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    Date: 
    23 April 2009

    Silicon Valley luminaries on a State Department-sponsored trip to Iraq are already making observations and floating ideas through Twitter and blog posts about how to bring the war-battered country up to web 2.0 speed.

    How bad is it? Almost no one in Iraq has internet at home thanks to years of censorship under Saddam Hussein's rule — making cellphones the platform for engaging the public in the occupied country.