Author Archives: jessica

We Stopped This Law (for a month)

Written by jessica. Posted on June 15, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , . 9 Comments.
Graphic designer Naeema Zarif created a visual call to action as part of the #stopthisvote campaign.
The picture says it all, but the post must go on. (Follow the conversation on Twitter.) Yesterday was a busy day. And now we wait. While you scan your Tweetdecks and iPhones, we want to report back to you on what’s happened so far, how you’ve responded, and what we might have achieved. The Background On [...]

ACT NOW: Postpone the Vote on the E-Transactions Law

Written by jessica. Posted on June 14, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , . 13 Comments.
We’ve written an email in Arabic and English (below) to send to friends and colleagues to try to stop passage of the E-Transactions law tomorrow in the plenary session of Parliament. We encourage you to copy-paste and post it widely. It’s crucial that we respond immediately. This isn’t an Internet joke, as Maya Zankoul drew [...]

Emergency: Help Delay the Vote on E-Transactions Law

Written by jessica. Posted on June 13, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , . 18 Comments.
As we mentioned last week, there’s a law before parliament (in Arabic) that deals with electronic information, signatures, and e-banking. The vote has been set for Tuesday, June 15. A group of stakeholders will hold an EMERGENCY MEETING tonight, Sunday, June 13, to discuss the law and prepare to block the vote on Tuesday. Join [...]

Stop the New Internet Law in Lebanon

Written by jessica. Posted on June 10, 2010. Filed under Policies & Practice, SMEX News, Tech & the Arabic Language. Tagged , , , , , . 13 Comments.
For a long time now, whenever anyone started talking about the relative openness of the Net in Lebanon, people have shushed each other or touched wood, so as not to jinx our one very important advantage over the rest of the region: we have very little restrictions on how we use the machine. Wouldn’t you [...]

Aggregating Feeds for Lebanon’s Municipal Elections

Written by jessica. Posted on May 23, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. 2 Comments.
Yahoo pipes lets non-developers mash-up the web.
Update: It really doesn’t seem to be working. We could use some help. We’re experimenting with Yahoo Pipes to aggregate the RSS feeds for the following hashtags and accounts: #engageleb, #lebloggers, #lebelect, @ladeleb, #hibrme, lebanon+elections, #lebelections, #womencan. We’ve connected the Fetch Feed module with the Unique operator to reduce repetition by title. The results are [...]