. New York Tech Delegation Heads to Iraq
Recently, Scott Heiferman, chief executive of Meetup.com, and Jason Liebman, chief executive of video site Howcast, visited Iraq as part of a delegation of New York and Silicon Valley based technology executives. The delegation, a first of its kind, was sent to the country by the U.S. State Department to survey the state of technology in Iraq and to help formulate ideas on how to build its infrastructure.
As stated to The New York Observer, Heiferman said “The point of the trip wasn’t to bring some American Internet brand into the country; it’s about the raw piping for how people connect with each other in ways that just literally don’t compute if you’ve been in the Saddam dark ages for a bunch of decades. This isn’t bringing McDonald’s to Iraq. It’s bringing some of the rawest ideas of how technology helps them be more themselves.”
The group also also included Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Blue State Digital’s David Nassar, WordPress’s Raanan Bar-Cohen and representatives from YouTube, Google and AT&T.
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