Server Information Website statistics: • over 50,000 unique visitors per month, coming from 100+ different countries • over 100 GB (gigabytes) of information (documents, photos, audio and video) is transmitted monthly to those visitors • over 1,000,000 hits per month are received and maintained by the server • 300 GB (gigabytes) of existing data files, consisting of audio, video, images, photographs and thousands of web documents, gradually being updated to the various websites • the server has monthly expenses, similar to any company or organization having an Internet presence.  Due to our increasing website growth and bandwidth usage (amount of information viewed by Internet visitors), the server is now financed primarily by partners, sponsors, business affiliations and individual donations.

To preserve.  To inform.  To inspire.

Welcome to Assyrian Information Management (AIM), the virtual Internet-based academic repository that created and continues to manage atour.com.  Founded on December 10, 1996, our primary objective is to promote Assyrian history, language, and culture.  We achieve this by adhering to the highest standards of truth in journalism and maintaining complete editorial independence.  This process allows us to curate our perspective and related information into meticulously verified articles that deliver accessible knowledge to all.

AIM has developed and managed many Assyrian-related projects.  We operate independently of any political persuasion, tribal affiliation, or religious creed, and we are financed primarily by partners, sponsors, business affiliations, and individual donations.

We are committed to social responsibility and believe in supporting Assyrian businesses and organizations by investing in their goods and services.  We accomplish this through our highly effective website advertising platform, promoting their banners to our audience.

We are highly selective in choosing companies and organizations for our advertising system.  This ensures that our Internet presence and platform remain free from the distracting marketing clutter common across the web.  We do not accept outside advertisements, preferring to manage our own affiliation, advertising, and search systems.

In addition to balancing selective business affiliations with conscious capitalism, we freely promote Ad Council public service announcements concerning significant public issues.  This helps to create awareness, cultivate understanding, and motivate action within our communities.

The server system and websites — consisting of web documents, images, photographs, audio, and video files — are blended together to form a unique Internet presence: an activist model of operations and independence.

Activist Model Summary:

• Independent, trusted, and professional online presence.
• Serves thousands of Assyrians monthly for essential activism and academic research.
• Earns respect from individuals, activists, and organizations across the Assyrian community.
• Content is reliably referenced by universities, websites, and leading search directories.
• Provides unique publishing features and information tailored for effective activism.

AIM is a volunteer-based organization.  Our contributors — comprising Assyrian activists, artists, authors, engineers, journalists, scholars, students, and other experts — are united by their commitment to the Assyrian cause.  The scope of their participation varies, drawing upon their diverse professional experience, skill levels, and availability.  We also rely on the crucial support of English-speaking scholars for writing, translation, and article submission.  We devote our time to delivering tangible results for our communities.

Please support Assyrian activists and friends of Assyrians.

Would you like to help?

• Share — linking your website to atour.com and/or posting this website's links of important documents on other websites, it's simple and free
  
• Display/Embed — displaying AIM|Atour information instantly on your website, it's automated, simple, and free
• Donate — donating and helping support these online projects
• Shop — shopping and purchasing items through our business affiliations website links
• Fundraise — having fundraising efforts within your local organizations and communities to financially support our Internet presence
• Volunteer — volunteering to write articles or gathering historical documentation and photographs, and sharing that information with us through our development forums which will eventually appear on various sections of the website

Are you part of an active Assyrian organization or business?

• Sponsorship — short-term advertising of your business or organization in this server project.
• Partnership — long-term advertising of your business or organization and investing in this server project.

Are you interested in sharing your knowledge with fellow Assyrians?

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R E C O M M E N D E D   A P P L I C A T I O N S

Technology has improved to help with Internet privacy concerns, especially for human rights activists, artists, authors, journalists, and writers.  We highly recommend using the following applications to protect your online privacy, specifically Signal for your phone, Tor for your Internet browser program, and Tails for your operating system.

Signal is a free open source application and cross-platform encrypted messaging service developed by the Signal Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC for Android and iOS phones and desktop computers, that employs end-to-end encryption, allowing users to send end-to-end encrypted group, text, picture, and audio & video messages, and have encrypted phone conversations between Signal users.

Tor mission is to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding. Browse privately, explore freely, defend yourself against tracking and surveillance, circumvent censorship. Tor is an encrypted anonymising network that makes it harder to intercept Internet communications, or see where communications are coming from or going to.

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card and aims at preserving your online privacy and anonymity.

Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks; managing transactions and the issuing of bitcoins is carried out collectively by the network.

WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media provided by anonymous sources. See also: WikiLeaks Research Community - user contributed research based on documents published by WikiLeaks.

The Courage Foundation is an international organisation that supports those who risk life or liberty to make significant contributions to the historical record.

activist \ak-ti,-vist\ noun (1915) 1 : a person who campaigns for political or social change 2 : a doctrine or practice that emphasizes direct vigorous action (as a mass demonstration) in support of or opposition to one side of a controversial issue — ac•tiv•is•m \ak-tiv-,iz-em\ noun — ac•tiv•is•tic \ak-tiv-,'is-tik\ adjective

mentor \'men-tór, 'ment-er\ noun [Latin, from Greek Mentor] 1 cap : a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus 2 : an experienced person in an organization or institution who trains and advises new employees or students 3 a : a trusted counselor or guide b : TUTOR, COACH — men•tor•ship \-,ship\ noun

moderator \'mäd-e-,rät-er\ noun (1560) 1 : one who arbitrates : MEDIATOR 2 : one who presides over an assembly, meeting, or discussion: as a : the presiding officer of a Presbyterian governing body b : the nonpartisan presiding officer of a town meeting c : the chairman of a discussion group 3 : a substance (as a graphic) used for slowing down neutrons in a nuclear reactor — mod•er•a•tor•ship \-,ship\ noun

teacher \te-cher\ noun (14th century) [Aramaic: malpana | Assyrian: mulammidu] 1 : one that teaches; esp : one whose occupation is to instruct 2 : a Mormon ranking above a deacon in the Aaronic priesthood

Sources: Helsinki Neo-Assyrian Dictionary | Aramaic Dictionary | Oxford English Dictionary | Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary

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