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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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[NGO]]></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>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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		<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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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smex.org/?p=1364</guid>
		<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>What a Difference a Year Makes</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/04/what-a-difference-a-year-makes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/04/what-a-difference-a-year-makes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smex.org/?p=1278</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For Lebanon&#8217;s parliamentary elections in June 2009, citizen media hadn&#8217;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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Secular Sunday in Lebanon</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/04/a-secular-sunday-in-lebanon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/04/a-secular-sunday-in-lebanon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[demonstration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[parade]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smex.org/?p=1245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;d love it if you&#8217;d post links to the Arabic stories about the march in the comments section (there&#8217;s also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign to Promote Blogging for Political Change</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/04/campaign-to-promote-blogging-for-political-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/04/campaign-to-promote-blogging-for-political-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lebanese Elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a station identification break from our CC-licensed posts:
In his latest YouTube video, Imad Bazzi is promoting his blogging platform Trella.org by highlighting the potential of social media to effect political change in Lebanon.
Here&#8217;s the video, which starts with a fade in to a grid of faces familiar in Lebanese politics and background [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Your Social Media Guru?</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/03/whos-your-social-media-guru/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/03/whos-your-social-media-guru/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Comerford]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most self-respecting social media experts wouldn&#8217;t think of letting themselves be called a social media guru—just listen to Mark Comerford at the recent Young Leaders Visitors Program Social Media Café earlier this month at Zico House in Beirut:

Nevertheless, there are some who understand the technical and the tactical of new media better than the rest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shankaboot Premieres on the Web</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/03/shankaboot-premieres-on-the-web/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/03/shankaboot-premieres-on-the-web/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, the new Arabic-language web drama Shankaboot, directed by Amin Dora and produced by Katia Saleh, premiered at Art Lounge.
The series belongs to a new genre and is one of the first of its kind in the Arab world (Flying Kebab is another but it&#8217;s not in Arabic), intends to portray a lesser-known, and [...]]]></description>
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