Topic: Greeting From SudaneseGuardian & Intro to Wa3i for Change<http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet/t/f9362164cdeec00c> Venessa Miemis <[email protected]> Jun 14 08:35PM -0700 ^<https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ohhl4rw8mbn4#13095e258af80009_digest_top> via liberationtech, [email protected] Dear All, hi and how are you all, i hope this letter finds you all in good health and happiness, i am SG who blogs at http://sudaneseguardian.blogspot.com/, it is nice to get to be part of this Mail list and i am learning a lot from it. in this email i would like to introduce to you about my latest project for Sudan. as a Sudanese, i feel that it is important for me to start a project that promote Social Justice and Good Governance and hence i was looking for a way other then blogging at http://sudaneseguardian.blogspot.com and tweeting about Sudan at @SudanGuardian , I thought that my next project should be with the help of Ushahidi great tool of where i want to create a new project that track corruption and embezzlement. knowing that Sudan is listed among Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions index for 2010 as 172 out of 176. one of the world most corrupted nation and i feel that if we Sudanese don’t stand up against corruption and embezzlement in our own country then i believe no one would do so. Hence wa3i was born, the site is at http://wa3i.crowdmap.com/ hosted by crowd-sourcing map and using ushahidi as all of you know a wonderful program programmed by wonderful and talented people of Ushahidi. It was not long ago that I start this small project and it is still in the development stage. As all of you know Ushahidi is wonderful and make it very easy to program Ushahidi crowd-sourcing map and I thank them a lot for that, my main work was done on the categorization of corruption and embezzlement, I wanted to make it a simple as possible and as easy to understand as possible. I am sure a lot of you might have had some experience making crowd-sourcing map or are doing project that are similar to this one, If you are working on similar project to this one and want to work together or can suggest advice to improve this map please feel free to suggest ways to improve it and I would be grateful for you advice. especially i am having hard time working categorization of corruption in a simple way for everyone to understand. Here is some basic information about the project Name: Wa3i For Change - واعي لاجل التغير Theme: Spreading Awareness One Click at a time Introduction: Welcome to Wa3i for Change There is an ancient Chinese proverb that says “It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness.” As Sudanese we all hold the right to pinpoint the wrong doing that is happening in the Sudan, we must be at the forefront stage of fighting corruption and embezzlement. As you might have known or heard from the news or read on published articles, Sudan is ranking among the world most corrupted Nation on earth. The ranking for Sudan according to the Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions index for 2010 is 172 out of 176, joining other worst state in the ranking index such as Somalia, Myanmar and Afghanistan. Hence the need for the Sudanese people to pinpoint corruption in the Sudan is of the out most importance. Through this website you can voice your opinion, thoughts or issues that affect us all who are part of the Sudan. If you have a website that talk about corruption in Sudan please share it here, if you have experienced corruption at first hand tell us about your experience or even ways to fight corruptions. I would like to point out one important point and that is, this ushahidi map is for all of us so if you see there is a need for introducing a new category please feel free to suggest it and I would add it right away. Wish you all the best and looking forward to reading your comment, links or experience. Wish you all the best on your research and studies Thank you for reading this email Best regards SG -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens