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The first step towards democracy

The population of Tunisia and Egypt have decided to take to the streets to say ! enough to decades of oppression and totalitarian regimes. Today has resigned Egyptian President Mubarak, thirty years in power have led to place a country without freedom and under tight control.
resonance have been protests in other countries historically autocratic governments in the Arab world, have been the most obvious recent demonstration of the new dimension of social power which give the city the new electronic communication technologies.
As soon as the first street demonstrations erupted in Cairo and other Egyptian cities, sound recordings, photographs and videos shot with cell phones immediately began to flood the web. And within hours the whole world could witness what was happening.
The immediacy with which the virtual communication channels were used to disseminate information, arrange and coordinate protest actions have definitely shown the character actor who can play in mobilizing popular media such as mobile and online social networks.
The first effective indication we had of the importance of Twitter, Facebook and other sites to promote political action against government repression was during the protests in Tehran after the Iranian elections of 2009, denounced as fraudulent.
From then until now not even two years have passed, but Facebook, Twitter, mobile telephony, emails, blogs and other Web 2.0 tools have already become first-class resource for movements fighting authoritarian systems.
That power has been corroborated in part by data from a report prepared by the International Center for Assistance to Media reveals Arab countries that social networks have surpassed the daily number of users or readers.
According to the study, and Facebook alone has 17 million users in these countries, which by contrast only about 14 million daily circulation of copies of newspapers. Specifically in the case of Egypt, the report notes that 50 percent of the population uses the Internet for information, while only 34 percent read newspapers.
In fact, the versatility and speed in the broadcast media offer satellite, together with Internet and social networks are causing the population to jump over the walls of censorship and information control taxes so far with almost total impunity for dictatorial governments.
It has been recently in those countries where the authorities spend enormous resources to rein in cyberspace, such as China, Venezuela and especially Cuba, where despite the jealous police control over all citizens and the very limited space on the internet accessible to people A group of resourceful and courageous bloggers led by Yoani Sanchez have made the government take away the monopoly of information.
Although the role of these new media is still evolving, the most benefit to the naked eye as a whole is the people, the more concerned they are dictatorships.
Today more than ever before are heavy international Internet communications through social networks and virtual channels. It is obvious that the world we live in today is difficult to isolate the population and to prohibit communication with the outside, something easily done so far. With all that civil society has started to regain prominence as a key player in the destiny of these countries.