Mehdi Yahyanejad

Mehdi Yahyanejad is a tech entrepreneur who founded Balatarin.com, a news sharing website in Persian in 2006.[1] Balatarin has been blocked by the Iranian government in Iran and has been the target of hacking[2] and DDOS attacks by the Iranian government.[3] Mehdi Yahyanejad has also co-founded NetFreedom Pioneers which is an organization dedicated increasing access to Internet. He launched the Toosheh project, a method to stream data files to Iran through satellite TV in April 2016.[4][5][6] He works on building technologies to allow Internet access in remote areas and offline content sharing.[7] He has also published a number of articles and educational videos on cyber security to train journalist and citizen journalists.[8][9]

Mehdi Yahyanejad
Mehdi Yahyanejad
Born1975
OccupationEntrepreneur

Early life

Mehdi Yahyanejad was born in Iran in 1975. He attended Alborz High School and studied Physics at Sharif University in Tehran. He completed his PhD in Physics from MIT in 2004.[10] He was a post doctoral fellow at Stanford University conducting research on computational genetics.

Honours, and awards

Mehdi Yahyanejad is winner of a Bronze medal for the Iranian science team at the 1993 International Physics Olympiad.[11] In 2006, his weekly podcast Radio Haftegi[12] received a User Award at The BOBs (weblog award) organized by Deutsche Welle.[13]

Bibliography

Gigaom Article: Activists vow to defeat Iran's Internet censorship

Interview: BBC Persian Click with Mehdi Yahyanejad on Toosheh Project(2016)[14]

See also

References/Notes and references
  1. "Balavision: Mehdi Yahyanejad". www.balavision.com (in Persian). Retrieved 2017-04-21.
  2. Rafizadeh, S. (2009, February 10). Organized Attack on "Balatarin". Rooz 2500. Retrieved April 27, 2017, from http://www.roozonline.com/english/news3/newsitem/article/organized-attack-on-balatarin.htmlp://www.roozonline.com/english/news3/newsitem/article/organized-attack-on-balatarin.html%5B%5D
  3. Faris, David M.; Rahimi, Babak (2015). Social Media in Iran: Politics and Society after 2009. SUNY Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-1438458830.
  4. Greenberg, A. (2016, April 22). The Ingenious Ways Iranians are Using Satellite TV to Beam in Banned Internet. WIRED. Retrieved April 27, 2017, from https://www.wired.com/2016/04/ingenious-way-iranians-using-satellite-tv-beam-banned-data/
  5. "New App Lets Iranians Download Information Via Satellite and Bypass State's Internet Censorship – Center for Human Rights in Iran". www.iranhumanrights.org. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
  6. Golshiri, G. (2016, April 4). Toosheh, une nouvelle technologie pour contourner la censure en Iran. Le Monde. Retrieved April 27, 2017, from http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2016/04/04/toosheh-une-nouvelle-technologie-pour-contourner-la-censure-en-iran_4894938_4408996.html
  7. Glanz, J., & Markoff, J. (2011, June 12). U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors. New York Times. Retrieved April 27, 2017, from https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/12internet.html
  8. http://www.roozonline.com/persian/author/name/mehdi_yahyanejad.html
  9. Balavision. (2013). Mehdi Yahyanejad. Retrieved April 27, 2017, from http://www.balavision.com/en/participants/ic9h92q
  10. Kardar, M. "Students". Retrieved April 27, 2017, from https://www.mit.edu/~kardar/research/personnel.html
  11. Jordens, H. (Ed.). International Physics Olympiad. Retrieved April 27, 2017, from http://ipho-unofficial.org/timeline/1993/individual
  12. Podcasting: Journalism for the masses? https://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford20050601-01.2.25&srpos=1&e=01-01-2000-31-12-2009--en-20--1--txt-txTI-journalism------
  13. The BOBs (weblog award). (2017). Retrieved April 27, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_BOBs_(weblog_award)#2006
  14. Interview: BBC Persian Click with Mehdi Yahyanejad on Toosheh Project(2016). .
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