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		<title>متابعة قانون تكنولوجيا المعلومات</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mohamad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[إجتمعت بعض الجمعيات اللبنانية  لمناقشة قانون تكنولوجيا المعلومات و الطرق المتاحة للمساهمة في تغيير القانون و للبناء على النشاط الذي يبذل حاليا من بعض المتابعين و الملمين بالقانون. و قد حضر منهم: غرينبيس، نسوية، اندي اكت، الف، منظمة ديبلو و جمعية تبادل الإعلام الإجتماعي
و نود  ان نشكر المعهد الديمقراطي الوطني ايضا للمساعدة في التنظيم. اما [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Arabic Guide to Twitter, from Yemen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maysa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Arabic guide to Twitter called “Twitter Guide for All Users” was recently produced by the House of Light Foundation, a non-profit organization in Yemen that works for positive social change. This guide encompasses simple definitions of what Twitter is, information about its growth, the users’ reflections about Twitter and the hurdles faced by this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow-Up on the E-Transactions Law</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/06/follow-up-on-the-e-transactions-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mohamad</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[e-transactions law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve posted about the E-transactions law, but this doesn&#8217;t mean that we&#8217;ve lost interest. In fact, just the opposite. We&#8217;ve been laying the groundwork to bring civil society organizations into the review process (see below), and today were pleased to see Roula Mikhael&#8217;s article (Arabic) in An Nahar that explains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>أوقفنا القانون</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mohamad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[المقالة باللغة الإنكليزية 

الخلفية:
نهار الأحد (13 حزيران 2010)، إلتقى 10 أشخاص لمناقشة قانون حديث حول تكنولوجيا المعلومات يتيح في فقراته الـ 69 الأولى بنقل لبنان إلى مصافي الدول المتقدمة في مجال الخدمات المصرفية الإلكترونية، ويهدد في مواده الـ 22 المتبقية &#8220;بإعادة البلد إلى الخلف، عشرة وعشرين أو حتى ثلاثين عاماً&#8221;، كما صرح غابريال ديك، رئيس [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Stopped This Law (for a month)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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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&#8217;s happened so far, how you&#8217;ve responded, and what we  might have achieved.
The Background
On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACT NOW: Postpone the Vote on the E-Transactions Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;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&#8217;s crucial that we respond immediately. This isn&#8217;t an Internet joke, as Maya Zankoul drew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency: Help Delay the Vote on E-Transactions Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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As we mentioned last week, there&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>قانون تكنولوجيا المعلومات الجديد في لبنان</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mohamad</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smex.org/?p=1384</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[تحديث: لقراءة ترجمة مواد القانون إلى اللغة الإنكليزية، إضغط هنا
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قانون تكنولوجيا المعلومات الجديد في لبنان سوف يبت به هذا الثلثاء في مجلس النواب، و هذا القانون هو نفسه من سنة ٢٠٠٤ مع بعض الاضافات و الاصلاحات لتتماشى مع المعاملات الالكترونية للبنوك و قد عمل البنك الدولي على ادخالها جاهداو هي واضحة في المواد ال٦٨ الاولى [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the New Internet Law in Lebanon</title>
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		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/06/stop-the-new-internet-law-in-lebanon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aggregating Feeds for Lebanon&#8217;s Municipal Elections</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/05/aggregated-feeds-for-lebanons-municipal-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/05/aggregated-feeds-for-lebanons-municipal-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 09:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: It really doesn&#8217;t seem to be working. We could use some help. 
We&#8217;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&#8217;ve connected the Fetch Feed module with the Unique operator to reduce repetition by title. The results are [...]]]></description>
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