Assorted Materials: Johnny Ryan

Posts Tagged ‘counter terrorism

The IIEA and the European Commission have just signed a contract to begin a study on non-legislative measures that might prevent the spread of violent radical content on the Internet. Our job is to examine the measures currently in practice, determine whether any are appropriate and functional, and whether these would work if applied across [...]

I spoke on the issue of Internet governance at the Swiss Government’s counter terrorism seminar on 29 April 2008. Here is the presentation.

The militant Islamist call and its echo

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 2 August 2007

Published on openDemocracy (http://opendemocracy.net/article/democracy_terror/islamism_web)
On the internet, in gymnasiums, bookshops and video-clubs, recruitment propaganda is viewed by and debated among prospective Islamist militants. This wide-ranging material contains four recurrent themes; understanding them is the first step to forming an effective counter-narrative to dissuade the next generation of would-be militants from embracing [...]

DOSSIER SECURITY AND DEFENCE: EU must take its anti-terrorism fight to the Internet

Islamists on the internet: brotherhood of belief

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 2 May 2005

This title should have read “Islamist militants on the Internet”.
Published in Magill, May 2005.
In Britain the speed with which the Muslim diaspora embraced the internet was demonstrated by the British Muslim Parliament’s order to all mosques and Muslim schools to install web access as early as 1996. With so many young Muslims in [...]


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I'm interested in 4 things: A) THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET AND ITS LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE; B) Ireland’s Digital Competitiveness; c) the Political Impact of the Internet; D) How ideas - including violent political ideas - are communicated online.