Tahrir square movement leader to address Indian entrepreneurs

He will be talking about how technology influence and shapes emerging economies, espicially in low social media adoption, internet penetraion

Youth activist and co-founder of Egypt's Tahrir Square movement, Waleed Rashed will address Indian entrepreneurs on April 26, which will mark 'India Internet Day 2013' event.
    
"We hope to learn from Waleed Rashed's fireside chat at India Internet Day how technology influences and shapes emerging economies, especially in low social media adoption and internet penetration," TiE Delhi NCR's Executive Director Geetika Dayal told PTI.
    
Delhi Chapter is among the largest and most vibrant across the TiE network. In the last 10 years, it has emerged as the forum of choice for startups, serial entrepreneurs, VC and angel investors, policy makers and academia.

    

India Internet Day 2013 is being organised by TiE.
    
Tahrir Square Moment or Egypt's 2011 civilian revolution was a driving force behind the ouster of longest ruling President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak. Rashed is a prominent youth activist and co-founder of the April 6, 2011 Youth Movement in Egypt. The movement got  its name from the date it organised first strike in Egypt.
    
He was also nominated for The Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.
    
Social media played a key role in spread of the anti-establishment protest. Rashed started the movement in Egypt along with a small group of tech-savvy Egyptians and on April 6, 2008 launched a Facebook page in support of a planned textile workers' strike in the city of Elmahalla. The page quickly acquired over 70,000 followers within a short time.

    
Through the deployment of new technologies and social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr to organise the protests, the April 6 Movement grew to become one of the most important organisers of the peaceful uprising that culminated in President Mubarak's departure in 2011.
    
Dayal expects Rashed interaction with entrepreneurs will allow them "to appreciate better the nuances of social media and how to leverage it to grow early stage businesses."
    
Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India Raghuram Rajan and Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor are also scheduled to address the forum.