Open Knowledge, Open Society/Introduction

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During the upheavals in Egypt Wael Ghonim became prominent for something more than being head of marketing for Google in the Middle East. He became an iconic figure of Revolution 2.0 which he described in terms of being like wikipedia:

"Our revolution is like Wikipedia, okay? Everyone is contributing content, [but] you don't know the names of the people contributing the content. This is exactly what happened. Revolution 2.0 in Egypt was exactly the same. Everyone contributing small pieces, bits and pieces. We drew this whole picture of a revolution. And no one is the hero in that picture. "