Web democrats get professional training

Rafaa is filling an online library with eye-witness accounts of human rights abuses in Syria. Ibrahim is busy constructing a debating site to enable people to discuss and disseminate issues concerning Yemen’s future. Aymen is developing technical platforms for direct democracy in Tunisia. All three of them are on a programme for opinion-makers from the Middle East which is run by Lund University together with the Swedish Institute. Since the month of October, 15 hand-picked students from the Middle East and North Africa have been experiencing the grim and windy autumn in Landskrona. In the University’s premises in the Citadel quarter, they are to be drilled in human rights while learning the latest developments in digital technology. The programme is aimed at young people who are driven by a will to bring about change in their home countries, above all with regard to social justice and human rights.