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Intro and a question
- To: general at arabeyes dot org
- Subject: Intro and a question
- From: Rai'da Al-Zu3bi <raida_lists at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 01:20:06 -0700 (PDT)
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-smith (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
BRIDGE: http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk
to download all BRIDGE reports
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