More Gaza Social Media Resources

An addendum to yesterday's post: Intute: Social Sciences listed various sites for monitoring news and developments in Gaza, and highlighted a posting on the Mashable blog on "How to Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media" (the comments list additional links).

Gaza Situation

Here are various examples of how social media and Web 2.0 applications are being used to report on events in Gaza and to provide support to humanitarian efforts there.

Blogs:
- National Public Radio (NPR) recently reported on "Life must go on in Gaza and Sderot," a blog maintained by an Israeli (Hopeman) and a Palestinian (Peaceman) on opposite sides of the border.

Mapping:
- Aid Worker Daily reported on the OpenStreetMap Gaza Wiki project to "update routes within Gaza in an effort to provide better data sets for humanitarian groups."

RSS feed:
- You can subscribe to an RSS feed for all ReliefWeb updates on the situation in Gaza.

Tracking events:
- Change.org's Humanitarian Relief blog reported that Al-Jazeera is using Ushahidi to track attacks, casualties, and other developments on the ground.

Twitter:
- NPR also reported on the use of Twitter by Al-Jazeera and the Irsraeli government.

Second IASFM Conference Podcast

As reported on the Forced Migration Discussion List and the Forced Migration Blog, the second podcast from the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) plenary session at the January 2008 conference is now available on Forced Migration Online (FMO).

This podcast includes the keynote address ‘Palestine refugees in the contemporary context: a view from UNRWA’ by Karen Abu Zayd, Commissioner General of UNRWA, followed by a panel discussion ‘The situation of refugees in the Middle East’ chaired by Maysa Ayoub, and including Helen Young, Patricia Fagen and Shahira Samy.

For other recordings in the series, visit the podcasts page on FMO.