Monthly Archives: December 2008

Gaza

Written by jessica. Posted on December 28, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , . No comments.
I was walking in the old souks of Saida when I heard the news about Gaza. Every television was tuned to the reports. Today, I received an email to join the Web2Gaza fan page on Facebook, set up by a group (one of whom is our trainer Moustafa Ghaddar) who wants to use Web 2.0 [...]

Grant Opportunities: What We Came Up with for the GeoChallenge

Written by jessica. Posted on December 9, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , . No comments.
Last Tuesday (apologies for the late post), several of us met at the RootSpace to discuss how we might use mapping to strengthen civil society in Lebanon. The exercise was inspired by the announcement of Google’s Geo Challenge, which invites submissions until December 22, 2008, for online mapping ideas in one of five core areas: Developing [...]

The Importance of Search, and Finding Our Blindspots

Written by jessica. Posted on December 1, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , . No comments.
When you’re developing something new, one of my favorite media professors once told me, whether it’s a theory, a curriculum, a focus group survey, procedures, or legislation, there are bound to be blindspots, pieces of the puzzle we discount or simply don’t see, often because we take them for granted. In developing the first set of [...]