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E-Mediat Networking Conference at the Dead Sea, Jordan

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I have created the design and delivered an intensive Train the Trainers session in Beirut almost a year ago for master trainers and their teams from Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. I also developed the curriculum for the 15 workshops that were localized and delivered by the in-country trainers to over 220 NGOs over 9-month period.

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E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

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The final phase is to design and facilitate in-country bootcamps with participants. (I’ll This year during Ramadan, Tunisia Telecom launched an initiative to support 14 charity organizations. I started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago. I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

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Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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

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His organization’s name, Shabakat , translates into the word “network.&#. Shabakat Al Ordon trains young people in technical, professional and facilitation skills who then go out and create programs to train people in their communities. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

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It has facilitated the opening up of access to good quality raw data from statistical agencies in North Africa and the Middle East, which is being shared with individuals, institutions and the public at large. Libya, Djibouti and Jordan have also granted restricted access to micro data to selected individuals and organizations.

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What’s Your Calling?

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At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut. The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning.

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

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The goal is to train over 150-250 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Morocco, and other countries and help them put social media skills into practice. Provide digital infrastructure to the 150 – 250 organizations through a public-private partnership with Microsoft. Insight #1: Build Time for Getting To Know Each Other At The Beginning.

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