The Syria workshop took place in Antakya [Hataya], Turkey on the border with Syria. Virtual Activism was invited by ICAN Peace organization and activist Sussan Tahmasebi, to organize the workshop on privacy and security online. Participants were all women refugees from Syria, primarily from Aleppo, and it took place in December 2013. At the end…
The workshops in Beirut, Lebanon took place at Notre Dame University-Louaize. The first in the series of 4, was a workshop entitled “Social Media & NGOs”, organized by the Lebanese Development Network (LDN) and Virtual Activism – USA. The workshops were attended by many nongovernmental organizations, such as LADE, Blue Mission Organization, ALEF, Lebanon Development…
Virtual Activism organized a series of workshops in Erbil, Iraq over two years, in collaboration with Al Amal Association. Approximately 60 participants have been trained on technology and social media in those workshops. We also organized a workshop in collaboration with Internews Europe and Al Amal Association at the EU at its European Technology and Training…
Virtual Activism organized a series of workshops in Fez. Rabat and Marrakesh, Morocco, for several consecutive years from 2007-2013. The workshops were on technology for non-profit organizations especially those working in human rights and development. Some of the workshops also targeted university students. The workshops discussed blogs, privacy and security issues and other tech-related software…
Virtual Activism began its online workshops in 2002. The topics of the workshops included Safety and Security Online, and harnessing the power of the internet in human rights and development. Participants from throughout the world joined us. We have also organized a Blugaria-only workshop which was co-trained by Chris Bailey. We are proud to show…
With the support of the Ford Foundation, Virtual Activism organized a FOSS conference in Cairo, Egypt, in 2003. Attendees were primarily university students and NGOs working in development and human rights. It was the first such conference to be held in Egypt.
As part of the project of Virtual Activism’s Center for Knowledge Society Program, with the community development organization of 3ezbet Bekheet in Mansheyet Naser, GNU/Linux was installed in Mansheyet Nasr with the cooperation of EGLUG. Manshieyet Nasser is an informal settlement outside of Cairo, Egypt with a population exceeding 90,000. In November 2004, Manal Bahey,…
Role of Virtual Activism in WSIS and subsequent events Virtual Activism attended the first phase of WSIS which took place in Geneva. While there, we noticed that there was no Arab representation; only a handful of either governmental entities or some Tunisian NGOs were there, the latter specifically because the second phase was to be…
