Gaza In Focus

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internet the battle ground for ideas
using utube, twitter, facebook to express their opinion to a global audience

YouTube channel from the Israeli Army

there was a gap

Day 3, Dec 29th 2008

Providing verified information made an impact
RT
Even CEO
700,000 followers

Training
- style/norms
- importance
Existing workflow

Tips

Enter Ushahidi
2nd Jan 2009 - Day 7
crowd sourcing crisis information
kenya and south africa in 2008

Couldn’t generate content from the public
Input the Twitter feed into the Ushahidi map

See the timeline of events as they unfold
all in all it was a interesting experiment
i suspect more innovating forms of its utilization will be coming up both for news gathering and engagement purposes

Just furthering the “Spirit of Al Jazeera”

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Gaza In Focus - Presentation Transcript

Gaza in Focus Moeed Ahmad http://www.moeed.com Head of New Media http://twitter.com/moeed
Case Study Operation Cast Lead War 2.0
http://www.helpuswin.org
http://www.helpuswin.org
http://www.gazatalk.com
#gaza
http://twitter.com/aymanm
http://twitter.com/sherinet
http://twitter.com/ajgaza
sooner or later, everyone gets the news
Challenges
http://labs.aljazeera.net/warongaza
More Information moeed.ahmad@gmail.com http://labs.aljazeera.net http://www.moeed.com http://tinyurl.com/gazawar2-0