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Arabic eCourse: Prototype with Participants from Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Palestine
From September 5 to October 21, 2005, a group of 14 experienced leadership trainers from Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Palestine participated in a five-week prototype Arabic eCourse to test and adapt the Arabic curriculum in preparation for a full eCourse in 2006.
Cultural Boundaries and Cyber Spaces
In order to raise awareness about the importance of a strong cadre of women leaders in strengthening civil society in the Middle East, Africa, and elsewhere, and to generate global dialogue on this issue during the United Nations' General Assembly Special Session on Beijing + 5, WLP convened the international symposium Cultural Boundaries & Cyber Spaces: Innovative Tools and Strategies for Strengthening Women's Leadership in Muslim Societies in New York on June 1, 2000. The symposium brought together activists, scholars, and influential women leaders in politics, civil society, media, and information technologies from Muslim societies and elsewhere in the Global South. Discussions focused on women's definitions of leadership, new approaches to leadership, and women's uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to empower themselves and each other, strengthen their full potential, and mobilize grassroots communities around common causes. Speakers included Speakers included Mahnaz Afkhami, Davar Ardalan, Janice Brodman, Charlotte Bunch, Gillian Caldwell, Noeleen Heyzer, Bushra Jabre, Zahira Kamal, Asma Khader, Amina Lemrini, Jacki Lyden, Thoraya Obaid, Ayo Obe, Shazia Rafi, Aruna Rao, and Najat Rochdi.
WLP President Mahnaz Afkhami Testimony on Women & the Arab Spring to U.S. Senate
The following is WLP President Mahnaz Afkhami's written testimony for the hearing on Women and the Arab Spring to the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Operation and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy, and Global Women’s Issues and Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Central Asia Affairs. Thank you for the opportunity to submit this testimony on the state of women’s rights in the Middle East and North Africa during this critical time of transition. 
Video: Virtual Activism, Real Change: Women & Democratic Transition in the Middle East
WLP President Mahnaz Afkhami discusses the intersection of women, democratic transition, and technology, focusing on the current context of the Middle East, at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Conference, "Internet and democratic change - Net activism, empowerment and emancipation," October 26, 2011 from 11:30-12:10 GMT, followed by discussions on specific MENA countries, and closing remarks by Sweden's Secretary of State, Hanna Hellquist.  
Second Youth Tech Festival in Jordan: Report from the Field
Asma Khader surrounded by participants at Youth Tech Festival II In 2009, WLP’s First Annual Youth Tech Festival brought 110 young men and women from all over Jordan to Amman to acquire hands-on skills in using emerging technologies to advocate for social change. The nine-woman technology training team coached the young adults in creating their own engines of social change.Worldwide, young people are using YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, website creation and blogging to connect and talk about the world they want to see and will have to live in.
Mobilizing for the Future with Mass Media and Participatory Web
Information, communication, and media technologies are providing unimaginable power to connect people around the world by reducing barriers of distance, time, and cost. How can NGOs harness the power of mass media and the web to mobilize supporters of women's rights and build effective movements of the future?
Youth + YouTube + Facebook = Social Change at Youth Tech Festival
The room was buzzing. One youth group producing an original YouTube video on domestic violence. Another creating a poster urging youngsters to volunteer. All members of a third team busy on Facebook, inviting friends to join their newly-created group to fight child abuse. More sights such as these were part of the Youth Tech Festival in Jordan where over 90 young women and men (with a 9 all-female technology training team) gathered to acquire hands-on skills to utilize emerging technologies to advocate for social change.
Photo Blog of National ICT Training of Trainers Institute in Jordan
Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) and Sisterhood Is Global Institute-Jordan (SIGI-J) convened a National Institute for Training of Women Trainers in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Social Change in Amman, Jordan from Dec 3-6, 2007. The Institute was facilitated by WLP colleague Usha Venkatachallam. Learn more about the Institute through the photo blog below.
Photo Blog of National ICT Training of Trainers Institute in Lebanon
Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) and Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action convened a National Institute for Training of Women Trainers in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Social Change in Beirut, Lebanon from Dec 9-12, 2007. The Institute was facilitated by WLP colleague Usha Venkatachallam. Learn more about the Institute through the photo blog below.
ICT Trainings Continue in Afghanistan Despite Challenges
AIL held a training for both men and women in which the age gap between the youngest and the eldest was forty years. Such mixed and intergenerational trainings are rare in the western provinces. The participants included about twenty students and government officials from the Ministries of Education, Women’s Affairs, Public Health, and the Economy at the WLP/AIL Center for ICT training in Herat.
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