DDN is thrilled to announce the appointment of Samar Elhussieny to our Board of Directors. Samar is a distinguished human rights professional with a formidable background in advocacy, international law, and movement building. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Egyptian Human Rights Forum and was previously the MENA Research and Engagement Coordinator at the Centre…
The conference entitled Bearing-Witness: Videography in the Hands of the People, was from 5-7 October, 22 at the MIT’s Media Lab. It was organized by the Comparative Media Studies/Writing in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The conference builds on scholarship and public policy that emerged as a result of the…
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…
