CrowdVoice allows readers to contribute to and read a dynamic aggregation of information on a specific topic. It features a blog widget and subscription abilities. Reviews praise it as a good resource for protest photos, videos and news stories, and as an insightful source of citizen perspectives from multiple sources. It is called a timely and well-executed platform for understanding events in the Middle East.

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CrowdVoice allows readers to read, and contribute to, a user-
gener ated, dynamic aggr egation of information on a specific t opic.
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Features include a blog widget to funnel contributions to a user's Consider Crowdvoice for updates on issues that matt er to you.
site and the ability t o subscribe.
— Read Write Web — Ashoka Peace
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It is a good resource for photos and videos of pr otests as well as An incredibly powerful tool for discovering voices of dissent.
links to news stories and reports.
— The Guardian — Reza Aslan, author and political commentator
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A great source for an insightful compilation of citizen per spectives, CrowdVoice’s ‘Human Rights Cr ackdown in Bahr ain’ is a must
drawing from tr aditional news sources, blogs, image gall eries, visit site for images and videos of the br avery of protesters set
and video clips fr om protest participants, intellectuals and experts against brutality and depr avity of Bahr ain’s security forces.
in the field.
— Peace & Conf ict Monitor — UN Dispatch
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It is an extremely well executed and timely platform and portal for This is the purpose f or which social media was trul y born for.
people to connect with what is happening in the Middl e East.
— Bill Liao, co-founder of Xing.com
— Ahmed Shihab Eldin, Al-Jazeera

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