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January 27, 2013

Coup Predictions In 2013

Jay Ulfelder is an American political scientist who theorizes and forecasts political development and instability in various forms, including democratization, coups d’etat, mass atrocities, and civil unrest. Among his 2012 predictions the coup attempts in Mali (March) and Guinea-Bissau (April) came true. He drew the chart for 2013 with estimated coup risk for the 30 countries at greatest risk using essentially the same models he used for 2012. Bangladesh is now shifted to high risk zone with lower values indicating more accurate predictions....

January 26, 2013

Bangladesh: Missed Call - A Tool For Protest?

An intentional missed call is an widely used method in developing countries, particularly South Asia, the Philippines and large parts of Africa, primarily to save money or minutes. It is essentially the poor man's text message, a free way to nudge another person or company. There is even an app available to complete a miss call with one touch. A report suggests that missed call can constitute upto 70% of total network traffic of Grameenphone,...