jardenberg unedited

Hey all of you fantastic people! I can’t really put words to the feelings this gives me. It’s a mix of hope for humanity, happiness that ”social media” is being used in a such a concrete, constructive and useful manner and awe over what can be achieved with little means as long as people work together.

I used to work at Hyper Island, which was involved (and maybe still is?) in the YLVP program, and seeing that I was an ever so small part of planting the seed that now is growing in Egypt makes me proud. I’m really looking forward to seeing what amazing stuff you will come up with in the future.

In these times when so many talks about how evil people can be anonymous on Internet and how much harassments there is on Internet it’s really nice to see that you use Internet to make your community a better place.

With the HarassMap you are not only helping your community. You are also helping making Internet a better place and are giving us that protect an open Internet new arguments.

You rock!

Good job!

This is exactly what the internet should be used for as I see it. When used like this, the web is such a fantastic tool against oppression of all sorts.

Even though every single harassment is just as horrible for the person affected, it is first when someone collects the bigger picture, that the world gets to grow an understanding of the situation. And when there is a bigger picture, every single incident gets just as important.

Amazing. This initiative gives me goose bums, and it shows the greatness of social media. It’s not just something we do for fun but it can acutally change the world and peoples life. I wish you the best of luck with this site and project, in creating a more equal and better society. I wish you success, and hope that your case will make it around the world, as a role model for others.

Kind regards,

Aggregating information enables people to see ”the big picture” and draw their own conclusions. If coupled with a platform for communication such as social media you will be in a better position to change a fundamental aspect of a society.

Data fragments enable aggregation. Aggregation enables analysis and analysis is the starting point for a discussion.

A verry good idea, but I see many piles of problems.
Misreporting is most obvious. How do we trust the reports?
To few reports will cover up for those who denies the problem. HM might be used as evidence.
Those in their weekest position can’t report since they are not allowed to own equipment to report.
Egypt has held women who has been physically sexuall abused imprisoned to protect them since islamist punish women who have been ”pested” by abuse.
72 percent of those who is said to have been harrashed wear hijab. You can’t be an islamist women at the same time question men’s behavior. Men stands above to their belief.
To just mention a few problems with this project…
I would like someone to address those kinds of problem with the project.

This is excellent work. :) While it makes me really sad that it is needed, knowing that you willingly spend the most valuable currency these days, your own time, on creating a platform for showing everyone the scope and severity of the problem makes me feel happy and hopeful.

Aggregating data like this, showing people that they are not alone and providing avenues for contact and collaboration, shows the power of the network at its finest.

Thanks for the inspiration!

Collaborative power!
Great stuff!

Best,

Morris