Esra’a Al Shafei is the founder and director of Majal.org, a Bahrain-based network of online platforms that amplify under-reported and marginalized voices throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
She is a recipient 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 currently a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow. Previously, Esra’a was an Echoing Green Fellow and a Senior 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 2015, she received the “Most Courageous Media” award from Free Press Unlimited.
180 Shift: The Fallacy of Exporting Tech Solutions to the Middle East
Regional innovators are bucking the notion that Western imported tech is the solution to the Middle East's problems. Music, creative ways to bypass censorship, and grassroots literacy are the real paths to change, and are being forged by innovators already in the region. Esra'a Al Shafei tells how you can help.
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Techonomy 16
MANkind’s evolving relationship with tools and MACHINES is nothing new. But the speed at which we, and everything around us, are becoming more closely connected and NETWORKed is.
