Arab bloggers gather in Tunis http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2011/10/06/feature-02

Some 200 cyber-activists, social networkers, online writers and new media leaders from 19 countries gathered in Tunis for the third edition of the Arab Bloggers' Forum. The conference ended Thursday (October 6th) after four days of discussions on issues such as the role of social networking in the Arab revolutions, democratic transitions and reforms, government policies towards technology and the credibility of information passed on through Facebook and Twitter.

"It's an exceptional meeting," Nawaat site administrator and conference director Malek Khadraoui said. Tunisia's Nawaat website, Global Voice and the Heinrich Boell Foundation organised the event. "There have been three revolutions in the Arab world, and most of the guest bloggers were involved in these revolutions, so this will enable them to meet and develop networks of solidarity."

[WHO ORGANIZED THIS?LOL Heinrich Boell Foundation http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heinrich_B%C3%B6ll_Foundation National Endowment for Democracy (NED) historian David Lowe writes that Stiftungen (like the Heinrich Böll Foundation) provided an “important model for democracy assistance” which helped catalyse the creation of the US’s own democracy promoting organ, the NED.

[THE GERMAN EQUIVELANT OF NED!!!!