The digital tools used in Tunisia were not appropriate to the task

Facebook, Twitter and ordinary blogs have been used in support to information and to organization of civil resistance. The need for better tools to facilitate political structuring in authoritarian contexts is obvious. It is highly likely that such tools will emerge in the near future.

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