User:John Cummings/Articles/Ahmed El-Madhoun

Ahmed El-Madhoun is and Egyptian journalist, writer and activist. She founded and runs Connecting Humanity which reconnects internet access to people in Gaza using donated eSIMs. She also hosts the podcast Helbing.

Connecting Humanity
Israeli bombardment, electricity blockades and fuel shortages has caused the near-total collapse of Gaza’s largest cell network providers. El-Madhoun discovered that eSIMs could be used to reconnect people in Gaza by allowing them to connect to remote networks including Israeli networks.. By December 2023 200,000 people living in Gaza (around 10% of the population) had received internet access through an eSIM.