Pakistan Long March Web Coverage
In 2007 Musharraf, president of Pakistan, declared the national state of emergency. With this declaration the president had the right to remove more than 60 judjes from power (some of wich had part in the Supreme Court who had just ruled he was ineligible to hold the post of President).
For the second consecutive year, “Pakistani lawyer community of Pakistan along with concerned citizens, political workers, human right activists and students have been struggling for the restoration of the deposed judges” [official March Blog] and decided to organize a long march across the country heading to Islamabad to force the governament into releasing the judjes.
The group behind the organization uses greatly the social media tools. This is a part of an interview by Digiactive with Dr. Awab Alvi, one of the organizers of the 2009 event:
The campaign mixed old and familiar tools such as Twitter andFacebook, with new and customized tools. Twitter was augmented by See ‘n’ Report. Like Twitter, See ‘n’ Report collated emails but also SMS and MMS updates whilst providing a campaigners front page, compromising a geographical view, multimedia feeds, SMS feeds, twitter feeds and beautifully compiled video footage using Flowplayer (a video player for the web).
All of which was collated through CoveritLive to provide live coverage of the event.CoveritLive is a viewer that can be embedded on a blog or website to link a combination of Twitter accounts and hashtags (upto 12 twitter accounts and 6 hashtags), reader comments, multimedia and live blogs (through iPhones, Blackberries etc).
Activity was monitored through Cligs which provides analytical tools on traffic going through a site.
The available data is huge: here you have articles by Global Voices, BBC News, Wikipedia and an interesting video by Al Jazeera English.
