[OKFN-MENA] Welcome / Bienvenus / أهلاً و سهلاً

Wed Mar 5 22:16:51 UTC 2014

Bienvenu Yamen :-)

Good to have people from Tunisia! Other comments are inline.

Le 05/03/2014 20:58, yamen bousrih a écrit :
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>  
> We (me and my friends from CLibre) recently organised the Open Data
> Day in Sayada City. I will write a post about that and send it to
> Rayna (@Rayna apologies for the delay J)
Looking forward to!

Btw, for these of you who haven't seen it yet:
http://mena.okfn.org/?p=57 (it is a very quick wrap-up and points out to
other Open Data Day events across the world). I've included Tarek's
show-and-tell from the Egyptian events as well as Storify from both the
Egyptian and Tunisian events.

... And I'd really love a meatier blog post on Tunisia, in French,
Arabic or English.

>  
> We are also working on several projects now in Tunisia:  the
> membership of Tunisia in the OGP process, a project called OpenCities
> which aims to promote the OpenGov/OpenData for local
> administration/municipalities , a Cinema Festival for movies under the
> license CC (it will be a parallel event with the Carthage
> International Cinema Festival), wikipedia workshops, the contest
> WikiLovesMonuments...

Yep, I've spoken to people involved in the OGP process in Tunisia.
Looking forward to how this will unfold.
BTW, speaking of OpenCities: have a look at the Local Open Data Index.
In contrast to the Open Data Index (http://mena.okfn.org/?p=48 ) which
surveys government openness, the Local Index targets cities. Have a look
and let us know if you'd be interested to work on it for Sayada and/or
other cities. I've been helping fine-tuning the French version of the
Local Index (which cities, which criteria, keda) as each country has
different institutional requirements when it comes to municipalities and
how they are organized. More here
http://blog.okfn.org/2014/02/04/announcing-the-local-open-data-census/

I'll get back to the global Open Data Index in a separate email. Last
year, I was the main assessor and editor -- which is why only 6
countries were represented :-) This year, I'd love it if more people
joined. I also have some partial data on most of the MENA countries
already curated, so it'll take even less time than what one could fear.

Last but not least: will there be WikiLovesMonuments this year? From
what I heard, it's unclear for now.

Speak soon,
Rayna

>  
>  
> Thanks
> Yamen
>
>
> Le Mardi 4 mars 2014 18h48, Mohamed ElGohary <ircpresident at gmail.com>
> a écrit :
> Thanks Rayna,
>
> So introducing myself, I’m a Cairo based Entrepreneur/Blogger/Social
> Media Expert. I’m currently co-founder at The Workshops
> <http://theworkshops-eg.com/>, with a passion to transfer skills in
> Egypt with a hope to go World Wide. I also have a passion for Social
> Media, Translation, Editing, Training and IT literacy. I also work
> as Global Voices Online <http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/> Lingua
> Coordinator and Arabic Lingua
> <http://ar.globalvoicesonline.org/> Editor, as well as Global Voices
> Advocacy
> <http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/author/mohamed-elgohary/>. My
> work ranges from supporting the 35 languages
> <http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/lingua> where Global Voices is
> translated to, plus working on increasing Arabic content on the
> Internet. On a side note, I volunteer as a Translation Moderation team
> member for Arabic Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/twitter_ar>.
>
> شكرًا راينا،
>
> أنا رائد أعمال ومدون وخبير إعلام اجتماعي مقيم بالقاهرة، حاليًا مؤسس
> مشارك في شركة The Workshops <http://theworkshops-eg.com/> تحت مجال
> تحقيق شغفي في نقل المهارات في مصر مع أمل في التوسع إلى كل أنحاء
> العالم. مهتم بالإعلام الاجتماعي، والترجمة، والتحرير والتدريب والمعرفة
> التقنية. أعمل أيضًا لدى الأصوات العالمية
> <http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/mohamed-elgohary/> على الإنترنت
> كمنسق لغوي ومحرر للأصوات العالمية بالعربية
> <http://ar.globalvoicesonline.org/author/mohamed/>، بالإضافة إلى دفاع
> الأصوات العالمية
> <http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/author/mohamed-elgohary/>.
> ينحصر عملي في الدعم التقني والإداري والإعلامي ل35 لغة
> <http://ar.globalvoicesonline.org/lingua> تترجم إليها مقالات الأصوات
> العالمية، والعمل على زيادة المحتوى العربي عبر الأصوات العالمية
> بالعربية. أهتم بالعديد من الشئون مع تركيز خاص في الإعلام الاجتماعي،
> والترجمة، والتحرير، والتدريب، وتعليم خبرات الحاسوب، بالإضافة إلى
> العلاقة بين الإعلام الاجتماعي والإعلام التقليدي. أدعم أيضًا جهود الحفاظ
> على التنوع اللغوي على الإنترنت. وعلى جانب آخر متطوع في فريق مشرفي
> تعريب تويتر <http://www.twitter.com/twitter_ar>.
>
> تحياتي،
>  
> محمد الجوهري
> محرر اللغة العربية والمنسق اللغوي
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>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Rayna S <rayna at hatewasabi.info
> <mailto:rayna at hatewasabi.info>> wrote:
>
>     Hello everyone,
>
>     I hope this finds you well :-) Thank you for joining and apologies for
>     the silence, been really busy over here.
>
>     My guess is I know each one of you subscribed on this list but it'd be
>     really great if you introduced yourselves ;-) I'm writing in
>     English but
>     feel free to use Arabic and/or French if you feel more comfortable.
>
>     Before wishing you 'good night', I wanted to highlight this short
>     wrap-up: http://mena.okfn.org/?p=57 (quick summary with links of Open
>     Data Day #ODD14). Stay tuned, more is coming [*].
>
>     Speak soonish,
>     Rayna
>
>     [*] Includes yogurts. And secret contracts.
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