Esraa Al Shafei
Esra’a Al Shafei is the founder of CrowdVoice.org, an open source platform that tracks voices of protest from around the world by curating information and crowdsourcing valuable data, such as eye witness videos, images, blogs, and a wide range of news reports in order to facilitate the spread of knowledge on current social justice movements worldwide.
Many people continue to endure restrictions imposed by repressive governments, which fear the amplified voices and legitimate aspirations of their own citizens. The world’s serial abusers continue to systematically deny their population basic rights, with violations including imposed censorship, limited access to information, and restricted free expression, to mitigate any potential challenges to the state’s or authority’s status quo. The voices of free expression add immense value in terms of not only furthering a particular cause but also in adding to the overarching narrative of change around the world. The Internet is saturated with videos, news, and pictures that bombard users with information out of the world’s most volatile regions, making it difficult to follow, synthesize, share, and to a certain extent, care, which effectively restricts the amount of value that can be extracted from the voices urging positive change.
Esra'a Al Shafei Blog
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Feedback on our iPad app
About a year ago, we started putting together an iPad app that visually highlighted revolutionaries and social movements, enabling you to draw connections to the past. The idea was to give a sense of... Read More – ‘Feedback on our iPad app’.
Check out the new Mideast Youth design!
Hi all, We're pleased to announce the new Mideast Youth design. For the past few years, this little site turned into a much bigger effort, branching into various projects. While our network was... Read More – ‘Check out the new Mideast Youth design!’.
Develop a business plan for Mideast Tunes and become a co-founder!
Apply with your idea! We’ve been running the Mideast Tunes service for over a year, free of charge. Our platform is completely bootstrapped. We worked hard and put in our own savings to support... Read More – ‘Develop a business plan for Mideast Tunes and become a co-founder!’.
New homepage design
This has been the plan for a long time now, but we finally managed to push out a redesign of the Mideast Youth homepage to better demonstrate our work. We’ll also be doing a slight redesign... Read More – ‘New homepage design’.
Migrant Rights Launches in Bangla
We are pleased to announce that Migrant Rights is now available in Bangla. This allows us to reach an even wider audience. We are grateful for the support of Bijoy and Rezwan whose efforts have made... Read More – ‘Migrant Rights Launches in Bangla’.
