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What a Difference a Year Makes

Written by jessica. Posted on April 30, 2010. Filed under News. Tagged , , , , , , . 4 Comments.
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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, [...]

Does Citizen Reporting Work? Will It Work In Lebanon?

Written by jessica. Posted on May 14, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , . No comments.
As the Web improves and we begin to realize all that it can make possible in Lebanon, ideas abound for ways to leverage the Internet to transform the so-called situations that bog the country down. Our funder, OTI, and many others have focused their programs on youth empowerment as a best hope for nudging the [...]