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Home | ALL NEWS | WORLD | Activist Behind Occupy Hong Kong Technology Pushes Connectivity

Activist Behind Occupy Hong Kong Technology Pushes Connectivity

November 15, 2014 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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French Occupy Hong Kong Technology

Micha Benoliel is genius French social entrepreneur behind Occupy Hong Kong technology and more

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In a democratic society, access to free information plays a central role in creating a system of checks and balance, and in distributing power equally

In 2010, French entrepreneur Micha Benoliel had a vision: that the world’s billion or so smartphones could be turned into their own network, with each phone acting as a “node” extending the Internet as we know it. He started to raise money for a startup, Open Garden, which would allow phones to communicate directly through Wi-Fi,…

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Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Asia, China, France, Hong Kong, Occupy Wall Street, Spying and Privacy, Technology Dissidents, Voting Technology

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