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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

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The post I had originally planned to publish before leaving on a plane for Tunis, Tunisia was going to be all The Women’s Enterprise for Sustainability (WES) , funded through the U.S. Needless to say, I’m sad about what is taking place in the region and disappointed that my trip to Tunisia has been rescheduled.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

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This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications. Photo by Gary Clark. I also designed and facilitated a nonprofit leadership institute at Pepperdine University.

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

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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. 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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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. He founded Shabakat Al Ordon , the first networked nonprofit that I discovered in the Middle East and that provides youth ICT training 300 communities in Jordan. I’ll be sharing blog posts about my experience here.

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

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Day 1 included a detailed project orientation as well as a design discussion about the online learning community site lead by Andrea Burton from Meedan, a partner in the project. 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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Women Who Tech Around the World

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Created by Alyson Kapin four years ago, WomenWhoTech is a network for thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. I organized and moderated a panel called “ Women Who Tech Globally.”

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