On the afternoon of the first day, a tech fair was hosted, where several attendees hosted tables where they did demos of their projects and tools. The idea was to offer an opportunity for all participants to get a first-hand look at various projects and talk with the people who developed and implemented them. The projects presented are below:

1. Dev Info Support Group, Sameer Thapar, support[at]devinfo.info, www.devinfo.org:

a. Data disseminatioin

b. PDA data capture

c. MDG monitoring globally

2. Sharek 961, sharek961.org, abdallah.chamas[at]gmail.com

a. Based on Ushahidi

b. Deals with vote reporting on Lebanese elections

c. Contributors: organizations, partners

d. Around 200 people contributing/sharing stories

e. Aim: to promote transparency and civil engagement by monitoring the electoral process

3. Souktel: www.souktel.org

a. A platform that allows people to send messages and surveys to pre-defined groups, over the web or mobile phomes

b. Used by NGO, aid providers for accessing beneficiaries: Gaza, West Bank, Iraq,

c. Each organization get their own website

d. Around 20 organizations using it at the moment

e. Slogan: “changing the world one text message at a time”

f. Pushes questions, and can see responses live online

g. Incentivize: use surveys with populations who are somehow connected, to a targeted group, relevant to them

h. Job match: matches those looking for a job matching open jobs, solely based on mobiles

4. Ushahidi

5. Snap N’Share: Gaza, West Bank reporting, Josh Levinger, jlev[at]mit.edu

a. Virtual Gaza: virtualgaza.media.mit.edu

b. Ground truth: groundtruth.media.mit.edu

c. Centre for future civic media

i. Intention is to figure out what’s the future of news

ii. Funded by the knight foundation: future of news grant

6. Mapping with balloons or kites with a camera attached: grassroots Mapping Tools, grassrootsmapping.org

7. Snap n’share

a. the platform it runs on: Comm.unity

b. Social Dashboard

8. NiJeL, Nijel.org

a. Community Impact Through Mapping

b. refugee resource map

c. AZafterschool.org

d. HarassMap

e. Flood SMS

f. Water.org

9. Al Jazeera, Mobile Reporting

10. ComCare

11. supply intranet

12. Geo Chat

13. Development Seed

14. Apstrata

15  RapidSMS

16  FrontLineSMS

• enables users to send and receive text messages with groups of people through mobile phones. What you communicate is up to you, making FrontlineSMS useful in many different ways.
• Used by SMS servers, such as Ushaidi, as a user-friendly, cool and easy user interface.

17  JavaRosa