Empowering Syrian Citizens Through a People-First Reporting Platform

Syria's civil society landscape is fragmented, underdocumented, and rapidly changing. Local organisations and citizen journalists lacked a single, trusted tool to collect ground-level reports, coordinate field observations, and make data accessible to journalists, NGOs, and international observers. Existing platforms were either too complex, inaccessible on low-bandwidth connections, or available only in English — leaving Arabic-speaking communities behind. The project needed to solve three things at once: extreme usability on low-end Android devices, full Arabic RTL support, and a data model flexible enough to accommodate incident reports, humanitarian needs, and infrastructure observations.

Adesh has entered its beta phase with active users across multiple Syrian governorates. The platform is already being used by local journalists, humanitarian coordinators, and civil society monitors to document and share field information that would otherwise go unrecorded. Zero app store required — installed directly from the browser. ADVISETEQ continues to partner with the Adesh team on feature expansion, including map-based report visualization and integration with international humanitarian data standards.