This document discusses how social media and web 2.0 technologies helped fuel the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. It notes that online communities in both countries had been using these tools since the mid-2000s to organize around issues like free software and creative commons. Key online activists and groups in each country are named. The document suggests these established online networks and experiences with web-based organizing were important in facilitating real-world protests when unrest began in 2010-2011.
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Social media activism in the Arab world
1. The Arab Spring:
a web 2.0
phenomena?
Donatella Della Ratta
http://mediaoriente.com
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Egypt
Linux Install fest Cairo since 2004
Arab Digital Expression Youth Camp since 2007
Manalaa.net since 2005
Tunisia
Software Freedom Day since 2007
Ubuntu Install parties since 2008
Nawaat.org since 2005
Regional
Arab Techies Meetings since 2008
Arab Women Techies since 2010
Creative Commons Arab Regional Meetings since 2009
Foss Meetings since 2010
7. Alaa Abdel Fattah Sami Ben Gharbeia
Ahmed Gharbeia Wael Ghonim
Lina Ben Mhenni
Houeida Anuar
Wael Abbas Slim Amamou
Malek Khadrawi
Mona Sosh
Nora Younis Rihad Guerfali
Oussem Aoudi
Yassine Ayari
Manal Hassan
