Open Source Mapping inthe Occupied Palestinian

Territories

Josh Levinger

Center for Future Civic MediaMIT Media Lab

• Collaboration with Harvard Alliance for Justice in the Middle East

• Collected 77 testimonies from 29 authors

• Mapped 32 neighborhoods in 5 cities

• Bombing and casualty data from UN, PLO

Summer Field Work

• Permit to Gaza denied

• Traveled in West Bank

• Met with activists (Israeli, Palestinian, intl)

• Developing new modes of geographic activism

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Free Your Maps!

Open DataEnables Applications

Source: PeaceNow

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Number of Settlers (w/o East Jerusalem)

Better Boycott

• Targeted at products made in the settlements

• Expose unlabeled place of origin

• Consumers ignorant of their economic support

• Global exports

בלוקבסטר

Source: Coalition of Women for Peace

Alternatives

• Shift spending streams

• Support peaceful binational economic development

Implementation• User interface

• GeoDjango, OpenLayers, Cartagen

• iPhone mobile site, barcode search

• Integrate with existing platforms

• WhoProfits, SourceMap, BILUMI, Amazon, PayPal

• Levels of data verification

• Crowd source data gathering

• Track financial impact, engage community

Barkan Wineries

Produce and market wines and liqueurs. Own vineyards in the occupied Golan Heights. Use grapes from these vineyards in their wine production. Used to have their main facility and winery in the industrial zone of the Barkan settlement in the West Bank. As of December 2007 they do not hold any industrial space in the Occupied Territories.

Barkan Industrial Zone, Golan Heights (zoom in)

Source: CWPVerified

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Successfully Divested!

(view) (ingredients)

134 Users track this product (track it)

Where is it sold? (map)

Contact business (email)

Business owner? (claim)

Work in Progress