Marhaba jame3an.
I'm an "accidental techie" who's been working on Arab ICT for Development (ICT4D) issues for the past 6 years.
I'm a big believer in and an implementer of the "effective use" of technology approach advocated by Michael Gurstein in First Monday. It seeks a shift in focus from *technology* to *localized content* as the core all ICT4D projects. My small contribution to arabization was writing an Arabic Internet and email training manual in 1999 for women's NGOs, which I used to train 70 representative of women's NGOs in 5 Arab countries.
I joined the list to learn about Arabic software and tools that I can make available to NGOs I work/volunteer with. I basically want to know about and learn very simple, cost effective and powerful to provide to Arab NGOs.
So, I'm now trying to self-teach myself Linux (through Knoptics (do we have it in Arabic?) and Open Source software like e-smi th (do we have it in Arabic).
I'm writing to ask whether you know of blogs and wiki software in Arabic that is available on-line for free for use by NGOs?
Thank you in advance for your responses and for creating such an important project as Arabeyes.
Salam,
Ra'ida
I'm an "accidental techie" who's been working on Arab ICT for Development (ICT4D) issues for the past 6 years.
I'm a big believer in and an implementer of the "effective use" of technology approach advocated by Michael Gurstein in First Monday. It seeks a shift in focus from *technology* to *localized content* as the core all ICT4D projects. My small contribution to arabization was writing an Arabic Internet and email training manual in 1999 for women's NGOs, which I used to train 70 representative of women's NGOs in 5 Arab countries.
I joined the list to learn about Arabic software and tools that I can make available to NGOs I work/volunteer with. I basically want to know about and learn very simple, cost effective and powerful to provide to Arab NGOs.
So, I'm now trying to self-teach myself Linux (through Knoptics (do we have it in Arabic?) and Open Source software like e-smi th (do we have it in Arabic).
I'm writing to ask whether you know of blogs and wiki software in Arabic that is available on-line for free for use by NGOs?
Thank you in advance for your responses and for creating such an important project as Arabeyes.
Salam,
Ra'ida
Ra'ida Al-Zu'bi
Information and Networking Coordinator/Consultant
BRIDGE, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
at the University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE
(working remotely from Amman, Jordan)
Please visit the following BRIDGE websites:
Siyanda: http://www.siyanda.org/
for a wealth of gender and development materials
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