In a four months project, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty cooperated with the Information Technology Support Center in an effort to make comprehensive information on the freedom of expression and civil society in Egypt accessible online. The Information Technology Support Center’s main website (www.id3m.com) is operated by Egyptian open source activists who aim at making political information available to the public via the Internet. The group’s main website presents systematized and digitized articles from the press and other printed materials. For many Egyptians, the website has become an important source of first-hand information.

During the period of the project, staff workers and researches visited numerous university libraries, publishing houses, research centres, civil society organizations and other sources of information in search for materials related to freedom of expression and the state of civil society in Egypt.