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Maidan: Volunteer Crowdsourced Media http://world.maidan.org.ua Since 2000 website “Maidan” operates as a civic initiative and is community driven. Ukrainian online community formed in 2000 by activists united to protest the murder of independent journalist Georgiy Gongadze. Maidan is a major on-line platform for and by activists
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Page 1: Maidan website - our past and future

Maidan: VolunteerCrowdsourced Media

http://world.maidan.org.ua Since 2000 website “Maidan” operates as a civic initiative and is community driven.

Ukrainian online community formed in 2000 by activists united to protest the murder of independent journalist Georgiy Gongadze.

Maidan is a major on-line platform for and by activists

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Maidan’s Story

http://world.maidan.org.ua

‘Maidan’ is a Ukrainian word for ‘square’ - an open area in a town.

Since the Orange Revolution on Independence Square in Kyiv in 2004 the word acquired a broader meaning becoming a synonym for public protest. We introduced this synonymic meaning on our website http://maidan.org.ua in Dec 2000.

•Dec 2000 - Maidan was created as the official website of "Ukraine without Kuchma" rallies on Maidan (Independence Square) in Kyiv, 250.000 publications since•Many civic movements started on Maidan•Since 2005 our community assumed a name Maidan Alliance and created a formal association

Site gets 120.000+ visitors per month for the last 8 years. Most of our visitors are dedicated activists. Our projects traditionally involve hundreds of volunteers

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Not Just Another Site

http://world.maidan.org.ua

Maidan operates under public website information policy adopted by consensus of newsmakers. We cover:

Protests, lawsuits, campaigns against human rights and civil freedoms violations and illegal actions of governmentCitizens’ efforts to organize and cooperate to defend their rights and civil freedomsIllegal actions of government authoritiesFreedom of informationHistory of dissent and movements for independencePresenting news of civic activism in Ukraine to English speaking readers

Maidan is getting more and more recognition and credit from the mainstream media.

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Crowdsourced News

http://world.maidan.org.ua

2004 – Maidan - the main communication hub for Orange Revolution activists. Volunteers reported more news than any information agency – up to 1500 a day. Monitors aggregated election reports from 30 countries70 cars patrolled election precincts in Kyiv and coordinated actions via siteOur news were used in the Supreme Court when settling election dispute

Max traffic ever: 500.000 visitors a day 23 November 200430 editors were working with data flow

During this crucial time Maidan handled immense amount of information. It was a time of success and challenges alike. We learned our lessons and gradually developed and implemented strict rules for verifying each piece of news prior to publishing it.

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Crowdsoursed Books

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Maidan published 4 crowdsourced books, dedicated to history of dissent during USSR regime.

1.Books are created on our forum. 2.Topic is announced and people are starting asking questions. Anyone could participate.3.We find the experts.4.Experts provide the answers on forum.5.Further discussion allows to word the answers in more interesting and persuasive way.6.The final text and photos are published in a book. 7.We finance the publications ourselves.

Latest book is “Underground church in totalitarian state”.

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Maidan MonitoringInteractive crowd-sourced Map of Violations of Electoral law – our most recent success. Citizen reports are added to the map when accompanied by photo and/or video evidence and after verification by law experts of Maidan

Parliamentary election in Ukraine will be held on October 28, 2012.

822 complaints regarding violations of the electoral law added to the interactive map http://maidanua.org/vybory2012/main?l=en_US as of September 29th 2012.

The total number of violations reported to the project team is 3011.

Citizens submit reports since July 9th 2012.

There were only 4 refuted reports, 1 of which was removed, 1 was corrected and 2 were closed with conflict of sides settled.

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Involvement

http://world.maidan.org.ua

140.000 readers of our website monthly300 dedicated activists (newsmakers) contributing continuously70 communicators who are checking information and keeping community alive10 core members – editors and speakers60 NGOs contributing continuously8000 activists coming occasionally for particular campaigns340 NGOs contributing occasionally for particular campaignsContributors from all regions of Ukraine + 12 countries of Europe, Americas and Australia

50% of our community joined in 2004. Recent growth of civic activity reflected in broadening of our community.20% stay with us since 2000.

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Maidan’s Mission

http://world.maidan.org.ua

Protection, promotion, and expansion of human rights and civil freedoms

Because of our dedication to verifying all reports and news, our organization is unique on an international scale.

We fulfill our mission by means of:•Sharing of Information – via popular website, books, movies, press conferences, seminars•Strictly verifying each piece of information for accuracy and legality•Civic lobbying•Monitoring of the government activities•Legal defense of constitutional rights

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Our Strategic Goals

http://world.maidan.org.ua

To encourage proactive access to information by citizens To increase citizens’ intolerance to violations of human

rights and civil freedoms To involve citizens into the crowd-sourced monitoring of

observance of political rights and civil freedoms To encourage citizens’ participation in active forms of

peaceful protest actions To encourage responsible, trustworthy, persuasive citizen

journalism

We provide expertise and perspective on Ukraine and the unique threats to democracy in Ukraine.

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What's Next?

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Our future projects will aim to involve the general public to report and document violations of the political rights of Ukrainian citizens and get engaged into their defense. So far we focus on freedom of expression and freedom of assembly.

We will continue to focus on the freedom of speech especially considering new threats to the freedom of expression that emerged recently.

We encourage you to :Consider our reports and data in your evaluation of level of democracy in UkraineProvide assistance to project teams in spreading awareness on Maidan's efficiency in carrying out a large scale crowd-sourced monitoring and information projectsInvolve our experts into discussions, round-tables and experts meetings dedicated to freedom of speech, human rights and civil freedoms monitoring.

Currently our long-term partners include the International Renaissance Foundation and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

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More Info

http://world.maidan.org.ua

Contact Maidan

Natalka Zubar, Kharkiv, UkrainePhone: +380 50 401 23 83Email: [email protected] Skype: nelliza111

Our site in English http://world.maidan.org.ua Our site in Ukrainian http://maidan.org.ua

The Maidan” projects are supported by contributions of members and the International Renaissance Foundation.