Walid Al-Saqaf talk about Yemen Porta

1. Yemen Portal : A gateway to online content on Yemen Walid AL-SAQAF Arab Techies Workshop Cairo – 24 Dec 2008

3. How Yemen Portal works

5. Analysis of the database content of YemenPortal.net

6. Things were going well, until... YemenPortal.net was blocked in Yemen On January 19 th , 2008   A spike! 

7. What happened on January 13, 2008?

8. What happened on January 13, 2008?

9. Most coverage on the demonstration was on the web & very little was reported in mainstream media

10. Following the ban, there were only three choices: 1) Surrender to government pressure and close down the website, 2) Filter out sources the government does not improve, OR 3) Resistance! 

13. and it was named...

14. Government meets expectations... and the second domain was also banned... 

15. And it just went on...  There must be another way!

17. Result... 

18. but less than 24 hours after that...

20. Contact information: Walid Al-Saqaf Founder, Administrator YemenPortal.net [email_address] Tel: +46 076233 9737