Wired\nPalestine looks at the role of the internet in the Middle East peace process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oxfam and\nCommunity Aid Abroad in Jerusalem are involved in a project to wire up refugee\ncamps in Palestine so that young Palestinians can talk to refugees in other\nparts of Palestine and around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In\nWestern Sydney, Enda Murray has been working with young Palestinians aged 16 to\n25 for 4 months to construct a creative youth portal for young Palestinians on\nthe world wide web. The project has thrown up some very interesting ideas about\nidentity and how the internet will mediate identity in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For so\nlong without a nation state, how will the creation of a community in cyberspace\naffect a people’s sense of who they are and where they belong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wired\nPalestine explores these issues by visiting Palestinian communities in Western\nSydney and in Palestine itself. The program talks to the young participants in\nthe projects and find out what they think of the new communication tools they\nnow have access to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The program also speaks with political activists on both sides of the divide, and the NGO’s and media organisations behind the internet initiatives to see what informed the creation of the cyber community. What difference have these initiatives made to the search for peace? Has it brought the warring communities together? What lessons are there for other diasporic communities in using these technologies to preserve a connection with the lives they have left behind?<\/p>\n\n\n\n