All Posts Tagged With: "maps"
Gaza - Map of Bombing Intensity & Casualties, Dec. 27 -12 Jan, 2009
The following map shows the bombing intensity and casualties in Gaza strip between December 27th and January 12th. The map is produced by a group of Lebanese and Palestinian activists who first came together to map the 2006 war in Lebanon. An update that will include additional days will be ready soon.
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22Jan2009 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 0 comments | Continued
Beating the Censors
When Tunisian bloggers suspected that the presidential jet was being frequently used for personal business by friends and family of the president, they used airport records to track its travels and compared it to official government records. Only one of ten trips proved to be official. Using Google maps, the bloggers illustrated their findings by “following” the plane in a video that was posted on YouTube and could be viewed within Tunisia.
16Dec2008 | Nawaat.org | 1 comment | Continued
You, too, can defeat cruel dictators online
The extensive palace complex of Tunisia’s septuagenarian dictator, President Zine el-Abidine ben Ali, for example, is off limits to his citizens. Anyone caught taking photographs of the vast complex are likely to be arrested. But cyberspace is beyond President ben Ali’s reach. There his palace is besieged by human rights activists.
14Dec2008 | Nawaat.org | 0 comments | Continued








