Daily Archives: August 24, 2011

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Today we continue our report on efforts by the Obama administration to increase Internet freedom around the world. Alec Ross, a senior adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, recently discussed these projects with VOA's Persian News Network. He says, "We're spending this money so that values that are centuries old -- that go to things like the freedom of expression, the freedom of the press and the freedom to organize -- are available in the digital age." The New York Times reported that the State Department expects to have spent about seventy million dollars on these efforts by the end of this year

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