Www.la-croix.com/Actualite/S-informer/Monde/Six-mois-d-insurrection-libyenne-_NG_-2011-08-15-699343. Why do you Libyans want Gaddafi gone? Here are some reasons… A large organization? No. A privately funded group? Umm..nope! Professional journalists with years of experience in the business? Wrong again... Questions like these and many more we got during the thicket of the revolution, but we never got the chance to answer them for many reasons. How many were there of us? As a matter of fact, we were only a team of 2 people! As the picture above shows. We really don’t know what more to add other than that this was a spontaneous unplanned effort from two people who wanted to do whatever they could to help a cause they so strongly believed in. It seemed like everything else other than Libya floated into the background.
And now Libyafeb17.com is relaunching to continue the voyage it began a year ago. Using the New Ushahidi Platform to Crisis Map Libya. On Tuesday, March 2nd, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) requested that the The Standby Volunteer Task Force be activated for Libya. The Task Force’s Tech Team set up a password protected Ushahidi platform almost immediately and several days later launched a public version at OCHA’s request.
As I have noted in this blog post and this one, the launch of this crisis map for Libya has been a very different experience on the use of the Ushahidi platform in Haiti. But there are at least three other important points worth noting from the perspective of Ushahidi. First, the Ushahidi team did not need to provide any technical support to the Task Force. Contrast this with the Haiti deployment where virtually all of Ushahidi’s software developers were literally working around the clock for four weeks straight to keep the platform afloat because a considerable amount of customization was required on the fly. Lybie : cartographie du rapport des forces sur le terrain… 10-03-2011. Libye : une carte des affrontements. Mapping Violence Against Pro-Democracy Protests in Libya. Lybie : cartographie du rapport des forces sur le terrain... 15-03-2011.
OCHA: Cartographie de la crise libyenne. Libye: le Conseil de sécurité décide d’instaurer un régime d’exclusion aérienne afin de protéger les civils contre des attaques systématiques et généralisées. Conseil de sécurité 6498e séance – soir Il renforce également l’embargo sur les armes imposé le 26 février et demande au Secrétaire général de créer un groupe d’experts chargé de superviser l’application des sanctions Le Conseil de sécurité a décidé, ce soir, d’interdire tous vols dans l’espace aérien de la Jamahiriya arabe libyenne pour protéger la population civile et pour faire cesser les hostilités.
Aux termes de la résolution 1973, adoptée par 10 voix pour et 5 abstentions (Allemagne, Brésil, Chine, Fédération de Russie et Inde), le Conseil a décidé également que cette interdiction ne s’appliquera pas aux vols dont le seul objectif est d’ordre humanitaire ou encore l’évacuation d’étrangers. Par ce texte, le Conseildécide aussi que les États Membres concernés devront informer immédiatement le Secrétaire général de l’ONU et le Secrétaire général de la Ligue des États arabes –l’organisation régionale qui avait demandé au Conseil l’interdiction de vol– sur les mesures prises à cet effet. 1. Cartographie et événements en Libye. Libye : Revivez les évènements de la journée. China moves out 4,000 workers from Libya.
China geared up for a massive evacuation of more than 30,000 Chinese workers from Libya, as a first batch of 4,000 have boarded ships leased from Greece who will arrive at Greek island of Crete on Thursday. China's ambassador to Greece Luo Linquan said that his embassy leased three ships from Greece that would ferry the 30,000 Chinese nationals from the chaos in Libya to safe areas. Luo said that Greek government has provided assistance and help in arranging the evacuation efforts. The ambassador told the Xinhua News Agency that it has booked up to 6,500 beds in 10 hotels on the Crete Island to accommodate the evacuated. Also, it leased 65 buses to move the people. It is reported that Chinese workers were in Libya building railways, infrastructure and providing oilfield services. Beijing has also dispatched chartered evacuation flights to take its people out of Tripoli, capital of Libya. Two Turkish ships left the eastern Libyan port of Benghazi Wednesday escorted by a navy frigate.
MapAction: cartographie de la Libye. Libya's Revolution Offers a Second Chance for Clean Energy - Adam Werbach - Technology. The oil price spike of 2008 was quickly forgotten in the haze of economic recession, but Libya's revolution could put innovation back on track. In July 2008 oil prices reached $147 a barrel and suddenly energy prices were on everyone's agenda. Soon, oil prices fell as the economy faltered and people moved on to the more immediate concerns of keeping their jobs and businesses alive. Now, as events in Libya provide a specific scenario for a supply disruption, predictions of oil at $200 a barrel are beginning to proliferate. Investment bank Nomura projects the price of oil could hit $220 a barrel. We're about to return to 2008 prices. How quickly we forgot the hardships of high oil prices. Stated simply, our economy runs on oil. First, we're experiencing a predictable denial that oil dependency is a structural problem. Second, we're bargaining for the last few years of oil price stability.
Third, we're starting to change. There's some good news here. Libya in maps. Libya War Maps: The Fifth Batch - The Geography of Oil-Mozilla Firefox. Libyan War Maps: The First BatchLibyan War Maps: The Second Batch Libyan War Maps: The Third Batch Libyan War Maps: The Fourth Batch Libyan War Maps: The Sixth Post - The Coalition's SizeLibya War Maps: The Seventh Post - The Invasion of TripoliLibya War Maps: The Eighth Post - More Battle of Tripoli Maps The vast quaunties of oil underneath Libya creates an extra-dimension to the war geography between the forces of the "Libyan Republic" (rebels) and the "Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Republic" (Qadaffi). Whoever controls the oil fields, the lands the pipelines cross, and the ports can sell the black gold for massive profit and perhaps even sway vital European powers to fight more or less in the war.
The United States has already given the Libyan rebels a "green light" to sell oil. The great geopolitical news source Stratfor has created two maps showing the oil geography of Libya. The first one shows oil fields, population density, pipelines, and refinery capability. Libye: Situation au 25 mars. Libye: Cartographie du siège de Misrata. Libye: Cartographie de la situation humanitaire. Libye: Cartographie des frappes de la Coalition. Libya in Crisis.