[AfrICANN-discuss] Middle East: 30% of bloggers are women

[Anne-Rachel Inné]

Middle East: 30% of bloggers are
women<http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=42716689&f=1246&u=4118871&c=0>

According to Eleana Gordon, founder of the Center for Liberty in the Middle
East, presenting its latest initiative, the Institute of Online Activism at
the World e-Democracy Forum in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Paris), 30 % of bloggers
in the Middle East are women. The Institute allows women in the Middle East
access to tools to "turn their dreams into action for change." Her speech
illustrates the rise of e-democracy in this region.

The Center for Liberty in the Middle East (Clime) is a nonprofit
organization that supports defenders of democratic values of freedom and
tolerance in the Middle East. Through its network of activists across the
region, CLIME advocates a peaceful transition of political systems that
protect individual liberties, allow the full political participation and
respect of ethnic pluralism, religious and political.

Eleana Gordon is also founder of "Online Activism Institute", whose goal is
to teach activism through e*learning, activist videos and virtual mentoring.
After a year of development, it launched in 2009 in Egypt and Jordan with
training for 90 women on its flagship online course, "Create Your Activism
Plan."

The Online Activism Institute is a consortium of NGOs, web-development, and
academic partners in the Middle East and United States, who work together to
provide state-of the-art training and resources through an e-learning
platform. The consortium is based in Cairo, Amman and Washington, D.C. with
plans to expand to more locations in the future. The Online Activism
Institute is funded through the U.S. Department of State's Middle East
Partnership Initiative (MEPI). MEPI supports efforts to foster reform
throughout the Middle East and North Africa.

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