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With Facebook now closely monitored in Egypt, activists have been learning to use the encrypted messaging app Signal to communicate on the streets. 
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Tuning in to news channels, browsing through social media sites, or engaging in a chit-chat with one of Egypt’s ever-so talkative taxi […] Read more…
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Egypt: Revolution Versus the Counterrevolution in the Age of Social Media
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Global Voices Advocacy’s Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights around the world. We begin this week’s report in the world of social media, where major platforms are facing pressure to change their practices in order to mitigate threats to state power.
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The electricity goes off, and darkness fills the old building. Tarek grabs a bottle of water, peels off the cover and puts it over a small lamp in cardboard box, instantly creating an emergency light.
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Last month, as StartupRanking released the scores of Egypt’s 100 most successful startups, we were amazed to find a common denominator: their Top 10 are all websites that connect people to other people with the same needs.
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As an early career researcher, I got involved in the SMKE project to develop my skills. There were really two key areas where I wanted to build my experience, and which the SMKE provided for me. The first was building a network with other early career researchers, from various backgrounds to expand my knowledge of social media usage beyond my own personal discipline of Egyptian political Islam. The second season for my involvement in the project was based around the one of the key objectives that the SMKE aimed to achieve – that of reaching beyond academia towards an understanding into non-academic practitioners’ use of social media.
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Techfugees, a global initiative seeking tech solutions to the pressing refugee crisis, is rapidly making waves worldwide. But what's happening in the Middle Eastern entrepreneurial scene? Valentina Primo meets the Egyptian startups innovating their way to help the cause.
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Prominent Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah, an icon of the Egyptian revolution, was sentenced to five years in prison today.
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Verdict leaves supporters cheering and opponents gnashing their teeth in frustration. Make no mistake: Egypt’s oppressive “deep state” is back.
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In Cairo, my family lives on the ground floor of an old building, in a sprawling, high-ceilinged apartment with three doors to the outside. One door opens onto the building’s lobby, another leads to a small garden, and the third is solely for the use of the zabal, or garbageman, who is named Sayyid Ahmed. It’s in the kitchen, and when we first moved to the apartment, at the beginning of 2012, the landlady told me to deposit my trash on the fire escape outside the door at any time. There was no pickup schedule, and no preferred container; I could use bags or boxes, or I could simply toss loose garbage outside. Sayyid’s services had no set fee. He wasn’t a government employee, and he had no contract or formal job. I was instructed to pay him whatever I believed to be fair, and if I pleased I could pay him nothing at all.
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The seminar aimed to highlight the fast transformation of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry and shared knowledge around how mobility, broadband and the cloud are the key drivers of this transformation. The seminar also revealed Ericsson 's latest Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility report highlighting the company's efforts to spread communications around the world in order to empower people, business and society.
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Since it launched this past November, co-working space icecairo is building a reputation for being one of the few places that Egypt’s entrepreneurs can go to build products and innovate sustainable concepts. Under the guidance of Mohammed Radwan, a self-described “vagabond” industrial engineer, and his co-founder Adam Molineux-Berry, the long-time director of Cairo’s Design Emporium, the space hopes to "solve environmental and social challenges” despite the financial challenges of being an independent organization in today’s Egypt.
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