Hossam Eldin Ali Ahmed

Hossam El Din Ali, member of al-Ghad's high council. \

Hossam Eldin Ali, "who leads the U-Shahid group in Port Said".

"The website U-Shahid.org, which means "you are a witness," will plot reports of election irregularities on an interactive map of Egypt. Citizens can submit reports via text message, Twitter, or e-mail, along with photo or video verification. The effort's organizers hope it will push regular citizens toward political participation.

"We think it's a new tool for election monitoring that will attract more people to participate," says Esraa Abdel Fattah, a project organizer and activist who was arrested after she used a social-networking site to help organize a national strike in 2008. "


 * Chair, Egyptian Democratic Academy