An entrepreneur and policy advocate. Former Governance Lead @Web3Foundation. MPP in Global Affairs @Yale. @ethereum Fellow. CEO of @zefihub & https://xitter.cf/t.co/WBKb0zTGvb

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Joined August 2009
A month ago today, we made the #Syrian state searchable for the first time. We launched #Nawafith Governance gov (.) nawafith (.) net. 80,364 decrees. 2,974 companies. 145+ international agencies. Open, bilingual, source-linked, free. Month one, in nine posts. #Syria
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After Nawafith Media and Nawafith Governance, today we open a third window: Nawafith Research. What are #Russian and #Chinese research centres saying about us? What do Israeli universities write about #Syria? And when Syria is discussed on a campus somewhere, who sits on the chairs: Syrians on the panel, or only on the slides? I used to answer these the slow way with forty tabs, a translation window, one evening at a time. So we built what I wanted to open every morning. 550 institutions, 48 countries, 13 languages. Every piece with a summary in Arabic and English, where it stands on the transition, and the sentence that decided it. Plus a calendar of Syria events, with a mark where Syrians are actually speaking. Free, no login, and we don't track who reads. Next on the bench: #Azora, one of the first governance language models, trained on Syria's official gazette and on how Syrians really write to their government. Then the notch app for Mac and Windows, the phone app, and Nawafith Education. Link: research.nawafith .net
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عيدكم مبارك! قبلَ شهرٍ من اليوم، جعلنا الدولةَ #السورية قابلةً للبحثِ لأوَّلِ مرَّة. أطلقنا #نوافذ للحوكمة على gov.nawafith. net. ٨٠٣٦٤ مرسوماً. ٢٩٧٤ شركة. +١٤٥ جهةً دوليَّة. مفتوحٌ، ثنائيُّ اللغة، موصولٌ بمصادره، مجاني. شهرٌ كاملٌ، في تسعِ منشورات. #سوريا
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ماذا تقولُ #الحكومة السوريَّةُ عن نفسِها، اليوم؟ تغطيةٌ مباشرةٌ من الإعلامِ السوريِّ الرسميِّ حصراً: الرئاسة، مجلسُ الوزراء، سانا، #الخارجية، قنواتُ المحافظات. للقصَّةِ السوريَّةِ الأشمل (معارضة، دوليَّة، مستقلَّة): nawafith. net. gov.nawafith. net/news #سوريا
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أرشيفُ الحوكمةِ السوريَّةِ المفتوح، بعدَ شهرٍ: من ٧٠٠ زائرٍ يومياً لمنصّة نوافذ الإعلامية قبلَ اطلاق منصّة الحوكمة، إلى ٥٬٩٦٠ يومَ الذروة. ٣٦٬٣٥٠ زائراً فريداً هذا الشهر. أربعُ مؤسَّساتٍ تقدَّمت بطلبِ الوصولِ البرمجي (جامعتان، مركزُ أبحاث، ومؤسَّسة). الوصولُ المؤسَّسي مفتوح. gov.nawafith. net/access #سوريا
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What does the Syrian state say about itself, today? A live feed from official Syrian media only: Presidency, Council of Ministers, SANA, #MOFA, governorates. For the broader Syria story (opposition, international, independent): nawafith .net. gov.nawafith. net/news #Syria
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Syria's open governance archive, one month in: From 700 visitors a day before launch, to 5,960 at peak. 36,350 unique visitors. Four institutions have applied for API access (2 universities, 1 think tank, 1 foundation). Bulk queries? Write us. gov.nawafith .net/access #Syria
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Karam | Zendetta retweeted
Syrians like @Zendetta and the work they did throughout the revolution was essential as a survival strategy. More importantly, it laid the groundwork for what post-Assad Syria should be like. Looking forward to seeing more from such bright minds!
got interviewed by @AbdullahOkaily for @WIRED on the tech systems Syrians built during the war. infrastructure is jurisdiction. whoever controls the network decides who speaks, transacts, exists. a payment rail is a border. a cell tower is a checkpoint. an internet kill switch is a siege weapon. syrians understood this before the whitepapers caught up. 🔗 wired.me/story/inside-the-te…
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