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New Delhi: Waleed
Rashed, hero of the massive protests at Tahrir Square that ousted
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, will address delegates at the
second India Internet Day (IID) here April 26.
The IID, held under the auspices of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE)
Delhi - National Capital Region chapter, will bring together net
geeks, e-commerce strategists, venture capitalists and hundreds of
aspiring internet start-ups, according to a TiE statement.
Rashed, 30, was one of the founders of the non-violent April 6
Youth Movement, an Egyptian Facebook group that started in 2008 to
support workers in an industrial town who were planning to strike.
The page quickly acquired more than 70,000 followers. The
activists used blogs, social media and text messaging to catalyse
the uprising against Mubarak.
Senior business leaders from global companies such as Adobe,
Flytxt, Google, Microsoft and Vodafone will share their insights
and experiences with the delegates.
Shashi Tharoor, the minister of state for human resource
development, and Raghuram Rajan, chief economic adviser to the
Indian government, will also be among the keynote speakers.
TiE, founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley, has over 13,000 members
across 15 countries. Its mission is to foster entrepreneurship
globally through mentoring, networking and education.
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