Babel: Translating the Middle East
A Mezze: Keeping Iraq's Solar Community on Message
Aug 15, 2023
Amir Alassawi created a WhatsApp group to build a virtual solar community in Iraq and promote collaboration in renewable energy, protecting it from politicization.
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- Amir Alassawi created a Renewable Energy Forum on WhatsApp to facilitate collaboration and discussion among experts, policymakers, and investors in Iraq to advance the cause of renewable energy.
- Alassawi takes precautions to safeguard the Renewable Energy Forum by prohibiting sectarianism, insults, and messages violating others' beliefs, and by keeping foreign diplomats out, but faces challenges in determining unclear intentions of messages needing deletion.
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Creating a Renewable Energy Forum
Amir Alassawi created the Renewable Energy Forum on WhatsApp as a platform for experts, policymakers, and investors in Iraq to discuss renewable energy. The group, carefully curated with 249 members, shares updates and opportunities to advance the cause. Alassawi ensures the group stays focused by deleting non-relevant content. Despite being competitors, members collaborate to kickstart the solar market and attract investment.
