Digital activism and online free speech in the arab world. Presentation during the Young Leaders Social Media Café, Beirut, March 6, 2010.

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3 monkeys 2.0

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3 obstacles to a truly global conversation
Censorship
Lack of digital inclusion
Language

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Global Voices major projects
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blocking social websites in the arab world

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digital activists networks vs censorship (tunisia)

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is censorship killing content? (Tunisia)

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e-journalists & bloggers represent 45% of all media workers in prison

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211 threatened bloggers worldwide (March 2010)
Arab World Rest Of the World
124 87
Arab World
41%
Rest Of the World
59%

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silencing online speech, how-to do it?
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censorship hacking
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DPI ❺
atmosphere punishing &
of fear persecuting
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micropipeline as unblockable infrastructure
By Sami Ben Gharbia | kitab.nl

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digital activism: do it right!
right tools (twitter, facebook, blogs, posterous, flickr, youtube, ...)
right medium (text, image, video, maps, podcast, RSS, ...)
right audience (twitter followers, facebook friends, blog readers, Human
Rights activists, ...)

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5 pathways for influencing the “government”

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5 pathways for influencing the “government”

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social web as a circumvention tool

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twitter alerts: get me out of prison

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twitter alerts: get me out of prison

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twitter alerts: get me out of prison

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human rights videos besiege the Tunisian presidential palace

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sponsored links & advocacy

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sponsored links & advocacy

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sponsored links & advocacy

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sponsored links & advocacy

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inequity of land distribution in the tiny kingdom of Bahrain

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costless anti-propaganda tools

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costless anti-propaganda tools

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Who is using the Tunisian Presidential Airplane?

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crowdsourcing information about police officers in Egypt

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issues to consider
think different
always experiment new tools
train and amplify voices rather than speak on behalf of
stress safety
encourage fact checking
reach out to non-human rights activists
listen, engage, measure, adjust...

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an endless cat-and-mouse game...
thank you
sami ben gharbia
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