Arabic Blogging Tool - Viral Freedom

We helped fund the development of an Arabic blogging (Web logging) tool and, with donor support, we are hosting the blogs at no cost to the bloggers. This allows Arabic-language blogs to be created easily. It gives voices to those working for freedom and democracy in the Arab world. And it enables them to easily connect and share ideas with their peers.

Background on the Iraq Election News project is here.

See the Arabic blogging tool in action here. Read English translations here.

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Viral Freedom
Every blog developed using the Arabic blogging tool includes space that is under the control of organizations that we work with, such as Friends of Democracy. This space or “real estate” is a portion of the blog header (top of the page) and the left column. The organizations use the space to promote groups, individuals and news that, in the big picture, advance freedom, democracy and peace in the region. Therefore, everyone who creates a blog is promoting moderate and progressive information and viewpoints in the Arab world. Friends of Democracy uses the space to publicize pro-democracy groups, election information and related news. The blogs created under Friends of Democracy are ambassadors of democracy in the Arab world.

The first group of blogs are under Friends of Democracy. They focus on Iraq but anyone, and any group, anywhere who wants to be a “friend of democracy” will be able to create and maintain a Friends of Democracy blog in Arabic at no cost. Friends of Democracy is establishing and enforcing policies regarding blog use and blog content.

Beyond Iraq
If enough funds are raised, we will seek other moderate organizations to oversee blogs in other Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia and Syria. We will also fund the development of the blogging tool in Farsi (so it may be used in Iran) and in Kurdish.

Use of funds
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