Author Archives: jessica

Arab Women Technologists Start Rewiring the World in Zouk Mikael

Written by jessica. Posted on May 11, 2010. Filed under SMEX News, SMEX Training & Events, Stories & Case Studies, Tech & the Arabic Language. 7 Comments.
About 35 women from 12 countries throughout the Arab region gather to talk about technology and empowerment this week in Zouk Mikael.
SMEX and Arab Techies have spent the past couple of months organizing a meetup of about 34 women from ten Arab countries to talk about technology, empowerment, entrepreneurship, development, and whatever else they want to put on the table. Participants are programmers, web developers, artists, teachers, professors, PhD students, bloggers, social media experts, activists, NGO [...]

What a Difference a Year Makes

Written by jessica. Posted on April 30, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , , . 4 Comments.
A blogger fills out the form for permission to cover the elections and enter the polling station.
For Lebanon’s parliamentary elections in June 2009, citizen media hadn’t quite achieved the critical mass it needed to mobilize. True, the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections (LADE) mobilized more than 2,000 SMS-enabled monitors and Sharek961 implemented the first instance of the crowdsourced crisis-mapping application Ushahidi, but beyond these interventions and a handful of existing bloggers, [...]

A Secular Sunday in Lebanon

Written by jessica. Posted on April 26, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , , , , . No comments.
Sunday was a gorgeous day in sun and spirit. So, we also wanted to commemorate it with a roundup links to some of the stories about #leblaique and highlighted some of the most poignant observations. We’d love it if you’d post links to the Arabic stories about the march in the comments section (there’s also [...]

Securing Your WordPress Blog, from abaadblogs

Written by jessica. Posted on April 16, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. 1 Comment.
Is your blog safe from Internet monsters?
In advance of our Basic Internet Privacy and Security workshop, which we’re hosting tomorrow in our offices, from 10 am to 4 pm, blogger and web developer Mireille Raad, our very first guest blogger, offered to write up a few tips on securing your WordPress blog from hacking attempts. You’ll also find this post on [...]

CC-Licensed Post #3: Que pensez-vous des blogs?, via Carpe Diem and Nawaat.org

Written by jessica. Posted on April 3, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , , , . No comments.
On March 27, blogger Carpe Diem posted analysis of two polls that had been published in the Tunisian newspaper Le Temps. Carpe Diem (hereafter CD) is a member of Nawaat, a trilingual Tunisian collective blog chock-full with coverage of news and politics and rich multimedia content (click on the Nawaat 2.0 Hub in the [...]