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…
Virtual Activism was invited by the Population Council, Nairobi, Kenya, to organize a workshop for local NGOs. The workshop was organized from 11-13 August 04 with 10 NGOs participating and 22 participants. The workshop was based on the curriculum developed by Virtual Activism on Maximizing the use and effectiveness of the Internet in human rights…
In April 2008, in coordination with Khedija Arfaoui, the Association of Tunisian Women for Research and Development, we organized a 3-day workshop. There were 20 participants from civil society: NGOs, university professors and journalists. Tunisia was particularly problematic because of State Security in spite of the fact that we took permission from the government to…
