Comments on: Baghdad Day 3 http://raanan.com/2009/04/21/baghdad-day-3/ all about the VIP Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:19:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Baghdad Reflections and What’s Next « Raanan Bar-Cohen http://raanan.com/2009/04/21/baghdad-day-3/#comment-3510 Fri, 01 May 2009 13:34:18 +0000 http://raanan.com/?p=586#comment-3510 [...] student I met with, Helen, just left a comment here that “reading your blog encourages me to start my own blog, i think there is alot going on [...]

]]> By: kellypretzer http://raanan.com/2009/04/21/baghdad-day-3/#comment-3506 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:02:16 +0000 http://raanan.com/?p=586#comment-3506 Raanan,
Just read this and checked out your Flickr. What an amazing trip! It’s always eye-opening to see images of Iraq that aren’t from major news networks. I appreciate the work you’ve done and letting us tag along for the ride.

Cheers, Kelly

]]> By: Raanan Bar-Cohen http://raanan.com/2009/04/21/baghdad-day-3/#comment-3499 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:50:27 +0000 http://raanan.com/?p=586#comment-3499 Hi Helen –

Great to meet you as well and glad you left a comment here. Wonderful to hear that you will get more into blogging — more people need to hear from smart people like yourself.

Good luck with your studies and please keep in touch.

]]> By: Helen Hanna http://raanan.com/2009/04/21/baghdad-day-3/#comment-3498 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:40:44 +0000 http://raanan.com/?p=586#comment-3498 hello Raanan,

I am Helen, one of the students that were there. I just wanted to say that it was great to meet you and i hope you enjoyed your stay in Baghdad and that you have a safe trip back home. reading your blog encourages me to start my own blog, i think there is alot going on that needs to be told! i already have written some blogs on myspace and i have my readers but i don’t write regularily!! i have to make this short because i have a test tomorrow at college so i thought i would give you my email add. so that we can stay in touch

best wishes
-Helen

]]> By: Devin Reams http://raanan.com/2009/04/21/baghdad-day-3/#comment-3483 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:06:26 +0000 http://raanan.com/?p=586#comment-3483 Fascinating observations at the end… that’s a tricky situation to tackle (government vs. private vs. getting things done) yet certainly not unique to Iraq.

]]> By: Ali Wasati http://raanan.com/2009/04/21/baghdad-day-3/#comment-3478 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:19:35 +0000 http://raanan.com/?p=586#comment-3478 Hi

i completely agree with you also. I’m an Iraqi who lives in London. I’m an accountant and have western corporate values of hard work, ethical behaviour and ambition.

I would love to get a job in Iraq in order to help rebuild the old country. But have no idea on how to do that. Most Foreign firms have not started to operate yet in Iraq.

It would be great if something can be done about this.

Thanks man, keep us updated

Ali Wasati (aliwasati@yahoo.co.uk)

]]> By: Yoav http://raanan.com/2009/04/21/baghdad-day-3/#comment-3476 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:50:29 +0000 http://raanan.com/?p=586#comment-3476 Really interesting – keep updating!
I hope you’re having fun :)

]]> By: Yesar Almaleki http://raanan.com/2009/04/21/baghdad-day-3/#comment-3474 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:51:40 +0000 http://raanan.com/?p=586#comment-3474 Hi ,

I do agree with a 100% on all these points you made , employees in state owned companies here are embarrassed of using hotmail , yahoo and gmail free accounts but what to do you cannot host your own mail servers because you need electricity although there are generators but that needs manual maintainance and more costs (ie. fuel …etc)

One of the obstecls is that there are no professional companies either state owned or private that are capabel of providing fast internet access and it is very expensive , for instance you can buy an EVDO connection for 150$/month with an allowed capacity of 2GBs only a month and it will cost you about 300$ to buy the usb modem.

There is not internet in schools , collages or universities and even if there is internet then it is provided by VSAT connections owners who have contracts with the ministry of education , actually they don’t implement wireless systems in collages so thta students can access via WIFI compatible laptops , they build internet cafes as the internet is owned by a 3rd party company not by the university or not even implemented for it , i.e. these contractors can take away their service anytime they like and that all happened in many sectors not only education.

As for a normal internet user , we all use wireless connection provided by VSAT connection owners (resellers) and it is like a big chain that end up in Germany or Dubai LOL :)

What we need here is something we can trust and rely on with fair and reasonable prices.

]]> By: Davenetics* : Raanan Does Iraq http://raanan.com/2009/04/21/baghdad-day-3/#comment-3473 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:46:17 +0000 http://raanan.com/?p=586#comment-3473 [...] Automattic fame is in Iraq this week (along with some other techies) and is sharing his experiences over on his blog. permalink :: send :: subscribe [...]

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