| Title | Keeping Our Voices Loud |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | The Evolution of CrowdVoice.org |
| Contributor | Esra’a Al Shafei (author) |
| Copyright | Esra’a Al Shafei |
| Publisher | meson press |
| Published on | 2015-07-01 |
| Page range | pp. 31–36 |
| Language | English (Original) |
Esra’a Al Shafei is the founder and director of Mideast Youth,anetwork of online platforms that amplify under-reported and marginalized voices throughout the Middle East and North Africa. She isarecipient of the Berkman Award from Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society for “outstanding contributions to the internet and its impact on society,” and is currentlyaShuttleworth Foundation Fellow. Previously, she was an Echoing Green Fellow andaSenior TED Fellow. In 2011 she was featured in Fast Company as one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” and awarded the Monaco Media Prize, which acknowledges innovative uses of media for the betterment of humanity. In 2014, she was featured in Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list of social entrepreneurs making an impact in the world. The same year, Mideast Youth received the Human Rights Tulip, awarded annually to an organization which promotes and supports human rights in innovative ways
Puthiya Purayil Sneha is Programme Officer with the Researchers at Work programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), India. Her training is in humanities, and she has previously worked with a research programme on higher education in India at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, (CSCS) Bangalore. At CIS she is presently engaged withaproject on mapping the emergent field of Digital Humanities in India, and is also interested in questions on changing modes of knowledge production in the humanities with the advent of the internet and new digital technologies.