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Getting Gaza back online

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A Gázai övezetben a 2023. október 7-i támadás és az azt követő háború ellenére digitális fejlődés zajlik. A háború előtt is léteztek tech start-upok, melyeket civil szervezetek támogattak, de a konfliktus következtében a lakosság 80%-a munkanélküli. Ennek ellenére új co-working…

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Amid the tents and the rubble Gaza is developing once again as an unlikely tech hub.

Even before the 7 October 2023 attack and the subsequent war between Israel and Hamas, NGOs, with the backing of Google, had sought to develop tech start-ups in the Gaza strip.

The digital economy was one of the few areas in which young Gazans in particular could seek to earn money for their families.

During the two years of war they struggled for food and water.

Forced to move from place to place, most of them lost their homes, their work, sometimes their laptops and plenty lost family members.

Now 80% of Gazans are unemployed and have no income.

Many of them live amid the rubble in tents.

Stable electricity and internet are difficult to come by.

And yet co-working hubs have begun to pop up, giving well educated graduates a chance to work remotely for foreign companies as coders, software engineers and app developers..

Yolande Knell reports on how its tech workers give a glimpse of a brighter, possible future, open to the world beyond Gaza’s borders.

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