THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY GENOCIDE MEMORIALS IN RWANDA 1994—PRESENT Giovanni Zambotti ( 1

About the project It was committed by Professor Jens Meierhenrich from the Harvard’s Department of Government. It started around June 2009 and completed a year later. It is an interactive website in support of a multi-year project on genocide memorials in Rwanda. It was meant to showcasing original geographic, ideographic, and photographic data collected in the field. 2

Rwanda’s genocide and memorials In 100 days at least 800,000 people were killed (20% of the country's total population). Hutu extremists killed mostly Tusti. Officially there are few memorials all over Rwanda, unofficially there are hundreds of them. 3

Project main challenging: Choosing the right graphics to visualize such painful dataset. Coordinate CGA prospective and Professor’s expectation. Since CGA did not have any real expert in web developing, the project turned out to be a demanding web project, even if the final product ended up to be a static website that use html code and basic javascript. 4

Technology used: Jquery ( home page / images carousel ) Flash ( intro ) Flex( map ): flash/source/browse/trunk/demos/?r=18#demos%2FAFCPicasaMapFlip Google Earth ( map ) Yahoo YUI 2 ( html, css ): 5

Conclusion: Excellent application to integrate text and images into a neat website. Probably not the right technical implementation. HTML is not flexible enough, the site is easly adaptable to other project. With more knowledge and better planning, we could used technology like xml-xslt or database like mysql. 6