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Responding in detail to Mobile Active
The blog Mobile Active covered Sharek961 the other day as part 2 of a two-part article on mobiles and the Lebanese elections. We were flattered to be featured and excited about the coverage, as Mobile Active is a well-read and widely respected publication among the ever-expanding community of people interested in mobiles for development, social [...]
Why we’re such bad bloggers!
Please excuse us. We keep promising to blog about things - our amazing meeting with the Social Media Exchange, our partnership with Demotix, Meedan, and Sawt Ashabab, our experiences putting together a team in Lebanon, heck, even our frustrations here - and we just haven’t done what we’ve promised!
We’re a very small team - there [...]
Who is going to use Sharek - and how?
Deen Sharp, the blogger behind the Lebanese Elections blog asks:
Will we get the first bit of breaking news regarding electoral news from a citizen reporting to Sharek961.org? Or will it just act as a platform for political slander?
While there are many international observers that have come to monitor the elections in Lebanon, what about the [...]
About Language, Lebanon, and Sharek961
I’m blogging in English because English is what I speak best. Other members of the Sharek961 team could blog in Arabic or French (I could too, but you wouldn’t want to read it!), but those people are busy with other key functions - getting the designs just right, reaching out to local organizations, identifying [...]
Who is Sharek961?
Well, we’re not the first people to do this: we owe a lot of inspiration to our friends Gaurav Mishra of Gauravonomics and Selvam Vermurugan of eMoksha, and their Vote Report India project, as well as Twitter Vote Report.
On a technical side, we owe a debt of gratitude to a number of amazing open-source and [...]
Hey Lebanon! We’re Sharek961!
So, we’re alive and kicking - just not quite launched. But we’re getting there. Our wireframes are in place, our coders are coding, and most importantly, we have a phone number. Not just any number, but as we’d say out on the streets: ‘A good number’.
So, how do you reach us? Well, you can take [...]
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