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E-Mediat: Reflections from the Conference in Fez, Morocco

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The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. Chema Gargouri, In Country Director, Tunisia being interviewed by the local radio station in Fez, Morocco.

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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

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E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. The physical space is an open lab space, with lots of white boards, fast wifi, turkish coffee, and lots of geeks sitting on bean bag chairs or at tables with laptops on their laps coding and hacking on their projects. Rami Al-Karmi, N2V Lab.

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E-Mediat: Day 2 – The Networked NGO in the Arab World

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Each topic introduced a framework and story, and was followed by discussion and activities to identify examples in the Arab world and or determine whether the principle was relevant. The Team from Tunisia identified Sawty as an example of a networked nonprofit in Tunisia, while the Lebanon Team pointed to Nasawiya.

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E-Mediat Day 1: A Networked Mindset To Capacity Building

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For example,we agreed that we could quote those who are tweeting and have open accounts, but our tweets would not attribute quotes. In the morning, we did a team building exercise to better understand the network core, the in-country teams from Yemen, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Jordan.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

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Students get a minute to think about the question on their own and then answer it using a mobile device that sends their answers to Mazur’s laptop. Here’s an example from nonprofit tech day at Microsoft in Seattle last year. Then he asks one of the multiple-choice questions. Working in Cohorts.