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Science in Egypt: Past, Present, and Future
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Search all CRDF Global sites. Search ONLY this site. CRDF Global in the News. Peer-to-peer approach greatly reduces risk of HIV infection. Science in Egypt: Past, Present, and Future. By Farouk El-Baz Jul 15, 2015. The Middle East at Night. By NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. CC by 2.0. When Mubarak took the reigns in 1981, a downward spiral began in education and. Scientific research. The main reason was lack of vision, imagination, or any understanding of the role of scientific research in the ...
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Preparing for the pitches |
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Digital Culture = Creative Economy. Preparing for the pitches. It’s day three at Culture Shift. The teams have had a pitching session with Karen McGregor, CEO of Firstport and are now in the final sprint to develop their ideas for 6pm this evening, meaning that before long, pressure is about to kick in. We’re going to see if we can get some basic prototypes built today and will no doubt see the teams splitting up into sub teams to deliver the pitch for this afternoon. They are asked to do 5 things;.
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March | 2012 |
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Digital Culture = Creative Economy. Archive for the month “March, 2012”. Culture Shift Kenya results! Over the past three days, a team of 45 of Kenya’s. Premiere creative, cultural, design, technical, and business talent came together for an experiment: to explore the challenges faced by the creative and cultural people of Kenya. The teams began with an analysis of the challenges these creative groups face from musicians and fine artists, to traditional craftspeople and graffiti artists. Rubiani sought t...
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Egypt |
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Digital Culture = Creative Economy. On May the 3. They’ll have just two and a half days to dig into the problems of the cultural and creative sector experiences, then come up with an idea and build a credible proof-of-concept solution or project to a creative or cultureal sector challenge, complete with business model and marketing plan. Winning teams will be granted up to 5000. If you would like to join the event please apply here: https:/ docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform? 4 thoughts on “ Egypt.
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April | 2012 |
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Digital Culture = Creative Economy. Archive for the month “April, 2012”. Culture Shift reaching Cairo! The British Council’s Culture Shift event’s tour is reaching Cairo, Egypt in May 2012. After a great journey of exploration and innovation in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, we are looking forward to discover what Cairo has to offer. No doubt it will be a rich experience of collaboration, exploration and initiation. We are now receiving the applications as the deadline is on the 21. Make sure there are...
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Panel |
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Digital Culture = Creative Economy. Culture Shift ends with a show and tell session where teams present their ideas to each other and an expert panel, made up of experts from business, the cultural sector, and potential financiers. We’re lining up some great people to come in and give feedback, advice, and support to the teams, and this is who’s involved:. Nkiru Asika – CEO, OutsourceMedia. Nkem Uwaje – CEO, Futuresoft Nigeria. Akintunde Oyebode – Head of SME Banking, Stanbic/IBTC Nigeia. Pingback: Cultu...
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May | 2012 |
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Digital Culture = Creative Economy. Archive for the month “May, 2012”. The future of Egypt is a bright future: Culture Shift results. 54 people, approximately 1/3 technical, 1/3 creative and cultural, and 1/3 business focussed, came together last Thursday evening with little idea of what would happen. These teams had a bit of help from both UK and Egyptian mentors. And a prototyping workshop courtesy of Snook. And a workshop on investment readiness from FirstPort. Here’s what they built:. Torathna will b...
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Nigeria |
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Digital Culture = Creative Economy. Update: Here’s what got built. In conjunction with the Co-Creation Hub. And Social Innovation Camp. Is inviting members of the community (technology developers, designers, branding and marketing professionals, business analysts and arts/culture festival managers) to apply to participate in the Culture Shift project, themed. ICT for Festivals Development. The winning ideas will be developed further for the market through the Co-Creation Hub Pre-Incubation Unit. The proj...
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Public Speaking | mohamed el dahshan. economist, writer, speaker, compulsive traveller.
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Mohamed el dahshan. economist, writer, speaker, compulsive traveller. Website erratically updated with new articles ever so often! Topics I have come to discuss/lecture on include entrepreneurship and private sector development, the Egyptian revolution, social media and social change, citizen journalism, etc. I regularly give talks in English, French, and Arabic. My latest conferences and public talks include. Harvard Kennedy School of Government. 19 August 2013, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Workshop: ...
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