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An Internet-Based Early Warning Indicators System

“A new SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) project, ‘Early Warning Indicators for Preventive Policy’, was launched at the end of 2002. The project, which combines a monthly expert survey, selected statistical data sets and Internet technology, breaks new ground in the field of early warning indicators. Processing survey and statistical data using a well-designed statistical indexing database will allow the creation of indicators that reflect negative national and regional, social, political and economic developments. The results will be made available on the Internet in the form of country-specific and regional reports. The pilot project will focus on West Africa. It is funded by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and will involve regional partners and organizations.”

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Dear Swedes and UN affilliates, please stop using the internet to spy on people in the West Saharan Desert. This region has inconsequential internet connections per capita and unstable existing policies that are unworthy of prevention or intervention. If, however, you are actually screening messages from the EAST Saharan Desert (Iran, Iraq, etc.), by all means, carry on.

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