11-16, 16:30–17:30 (Asia/Beirut), The in Between
Educate the audience about cutting edge tools to build archives that are of benefit to researchers and journalists as well as online exhibitions that should attract the youth and the public at large through using vetted private and public data collections. Engage in discussions around how to fight disinformation and misinformation through building such an archive that can then be equipped with audience-generated material.
Two experts will present why the region needs an open public archive that can help construct multiple narratives about the first two decades of the 21st century in terms of social and political upheavals. They will show how such an archive is necessary to push back on government- and corporate-sponsored narratives that include much misinformation or disinformation. They will also outline the technical, legal, marketing and financial challenges of such a project. The presentation will also touch upon Oral History and how an online archive can encourage people to come forward and record history whose records are being blocked or destroyed.
The presentation should last for 15 minutes then a Q/A session could be held for 15 minutes. The speakers will engage the audience on their expectations, past experiences with similar projects, and offer them an opportunity for collaboration.
سوف يشرح خبيران لماذا تحتاج المنطقة إلى أرشيف عام ومفتوح يساهم في بناء سرديّات متنوّعة حول العقدَيْن الأوّلَيْن من القرن الحادي والعشرين وما شهداه من تحوّلات اجتماعية وسياسية. وسيسلّط الخبيران الضوء على ضرورة إنشاء مثل هذا الأرشيف لمواجهة السرديّات المدعومة من الحكومات أو الشركات الكبرى، والتي تتضمّن كمًّا كبيرًا من المعلومات الخاطئة أو المضلّلة. بالإضافة إلى ذلك، سيحدّد الخبيران التحديات التقنية والقانونية والتسويفية والمالية لمشروع كهذا. وسيتطرّق العرض أيضًا إلى التاريخ الشفهي وكيف يمكن للأرشيف المتوفر على الإنترنت أن يشجع الناس على تولي زمام المبادرة وتوثيق السجلات التاريخية المحظورة أو التي تسعى جهات معينة إلى تدميرها. من المفترض أن يستغرق العرض ١٥ دقيقة، وقد تليه جلسة أسئلة وأجوبة تدوم لـ١٥ دقيقة أخرى. وسيسأل المتحدّثون الأشخاص الحاضرين عن توقعاتهم وتجاربهم السابقة في مشاريع مماثلة، كما سيتيحون لهم فرصًا للتعاون.
Khaled Mansour is a writer and communication expert with many years of experience at the United Nations and as a foreign correspondent. He has worked and written on political issues, human rights, humanitarian aid, and peacekeeping in addition to his fiction work. As a journalist and then a UN spokesperson, he worked for years in conflict and transitional situations such as in South Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and the Sudan in addition to his work on US politics in Washington DC in the 1990s and at the UN headquarters in New York. Before he became a full-time writer in 2015, he was the Executive Director of Egypt's leading human rights organization, EIPR (2013-2014). He published seven books, mostly in Arabic. His debut novel, “A Minefield” and his memoirs on Afghanistan, “From Taliban to Taliban” appeared in Arabic in early 2022. He joined META Oversight Board in 2022 and keeps a blog at khaledmansour.org