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Acknowledgment

The Palestinian Web Space information graphics are the outcome of the Information Society in Palestine project workshops, held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 4-8 September and 7-9 November 2007. The workshops are a co-production of the Govcom.org Foundation, Amsterdam, and the Information Society in Palestine project, Cambridge, UK.

Workshop project directors: Richard Rogers and Rafal Rohozinski.

Workshop project researchers: Miriyam Aouragh, Anat Ben-David, Erik Borra, Michael Dahan, Isabelle Daneels, Marieke van Dijk, Koen Martens, Andrei Mogoutov, Sabine Niederer, Charmaine Stanley, Michael Stevenson, Mohamed Waked and Esther Weltevrede.

The research presented in this publication is supported by Canada's International Development Research Centre (www.idrc.ca). The Information Society in Palestine project was conceived and implemented by the Advanced Network Research Group, Cambridge Security Programme (University of Cambridge), and The SecDev Group (www.secdev.ca).

Govcom.org would like to thank Hivos (www.hivos.nl), the Dutch Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries.

Mapping the Palestinian Web Space, Sept - Nov 2007 [complete set pdf]

I. Palestinian Territorial Net - The Story of .ps

A Geography of .ps Registered Addresses. Nearly all .ps sites are registered with addresses within the Palestinian Territories. [pdf]

A Geography of .ps Host Locations. The majority of .ps sites is hosted outside of the Palestinian Territories, with over half of the providers located in the United States. [pdf]

A Comparison of where .ps Sites are Hosted and Registered. Nearly all .ps sites are registered with addresses within the Palestinian Territories. The majority of .ps sites is hosted outside of the Palestinian Territories, with over half of the providers located in the United States. [pdf]

Migration of Significant Palestinian Websites to .ps. Of the 172 Websites listed on the Birzeit University's Complete Guide to Palestine's Websites (December 2002), 77.3% (133 Websites) have not migrated to .ps as of September 2007. [pdf]

Migration of University Sites from .edu to .edu.ps. Three universities maintain both .edu and .edu.ps URLs for their respective websites. Compared to the .edu versions, the .edu.ps sites are isolated, with few links pointed directly to them. [pdf]

The .ps Network. .Ps sites and those linked from .ps sites do not cluster significantly, with the exception of secondary schools clustering around particular pieces of software, e.g., joomla, the popular, open source content management system. [pdf]

Significant Videos Referenced by .ps Sites. .Ps sites reference youtube videos far more often than google or ikbis videos, with the most popular in September 2007 being one of the poet, Tamim El-Barghouti, whose reading targeted a wide range of national liberation groups. By November 2007 El-Barghouti's video had been supplanted at the top by a sad romantic music video. [pdf]

II. Palestinian Political Net - Separate Spheres?

Fatah-related and Hamas-related Networks Compared. Fatah's Palestinian Web may be characterized primarily as a 'civic Web', with dense interlinkings between Palestinian and international NGOs and media. Hamas's Palestinian Web provides no links to NGOs and media, but rather to RSS readers and services where one may subscribe to Hamas content. [pdf]

Hamas and Fatah Referenced Videos Compared. Of the top 100 videos referenced by Hamas and Fatah related sites, 16 are referenced by both groupings. The majority of these videos contains violent and/or politically charged content. The overall narrative style is symbolic or moralistic (symbolic real life stories). [pdf]

Hamas and Hizbullah Referenced Videos Compared. Of the top 100 videos referenced by Hamas and Fatah related sites, 17 are referenced by both groupings. The majority of these videos contains violent and/or politically charged content. The overall narrative style is symbolic or moralistic (symbolic real life stories). [pdf]

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