smexadmin • 14 Dec 2016

SMEX Launches Inaugural Report on Digital Surveillance in Lebanon

  In the absence of a comprehensive constitutional framework on privacy rights and data protection in Lebanon and amid a…

  • Digital Surveillance
  • Lebanon
  • Reports
smexadmin • 21 Sep 2016

A Crowdmapping Initiative to Medically-Check the Homeless

Feature image via Wikimedia Commons.     The increasing number of homeless people in Beirut streets can be attributed to…

  • Beirut
  • Civil Society Initiatives
  • Homeless
smexadmin • 02 Sep 2016

#HACKINGEXTREMISM: How Did Community Groups Counter Violent Extremism?

Feature image via Smex: Maya and Nancy Yamout, “Rescue Me” organization.       The advancement of the internet and…

  • CVE
  • Events
  • Hacking Extremism
smexadmin • 22 Aug 2016

Preparing New Voices to Shape Internet Governance in the Middle East

Feature image via Smex.org: Participants, partners and organizers of the 2016 Middle East and Adjoining Countries School on Internet Governance…

  • Digital Rights
  • Internet Governance
  • Lebanon
smexadmin • 19 Aug 2016

The New Tasharuk Is Live!

With many tools emerging everyday, resource-strapped organizations and activists are finding it challenging to make use of them all, in…

  • Lebanon
  • Resources
  • Smex
smexadmin • 16 Aug 2016

SMEX Investigates: Who’s Watching Us?

Feature image via Pixabay.com       Who’s watching us? In providing evidence-based answers to this question, SMEX is pleased…

  • E-Government Programs
  • Electronic Surveillance
  • Investiagtions
smexadmin • 19 Jul 2016

Feature image via Wikipedia.       Lebanon will adopt a new biometric passport by the end of July 2016,…

  • Biometric Passport
  • Data Protection
  • Lebanese Government