The WSIS Forum is constantly evolving and strengthening the alignment between the WSIS Action Lines and the Sustainable Development Goals. Announcement: “Pursuing a first partnership in 2016, WSIS and World VR Forum join forces to be at the forefront of Virtual Reality for advancing development. A shiny new Virtual Reality Track will be held at…
Board members Marlyn Tadros and Melissa Dailey have attended the 55th Session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD55), 1-10 February 2017“. The conference’s topic was “Strategies for the eradication of poverty to achieve sustainable development for all”. Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world…
Virtual Activism board members attended the Women’s Commission at the UN on March 21st 2017. Priority theme: Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work Review theme: Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls (agreed conclusions of the fifty-eighth session) Emerging issue/Focus area: The empowerment of…
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…
