E-Mediat Morocco: Program Implementation & NGOs achievements through Social Media Tools
The E-Mediat program aims to increase NGO knowledge and skills to use new
media effectively and to promote their access to these new communication
channels to enable them to advance their unique missions and strengthen their organizations.
NGOS
Achievements Via Social Media : From training to autonomy
More
than 50 NGOs working in rural and urban areas are benefiting of E-Mediat Morocco
training sessions, which have started since June 2011. At this stage,
NGOs benefiting from the E-Mediat Morocco program are preparing their NGOs’
Social Media Strategies and implementing several activities through these tools
in different areas including:
Local Affairs
Management through Social Media:
The AMADEP association in
Ein leuh in the region of Azrou is using tools of social media in order to
contribute to local management of their village. Thus, the association has created a group on
facebook for this purpose. The group
gathers several NGOs from the village who have decided to create a regional
consortium. Their experience has become very popular and is now duplicated in
other villages in the region of Azrou. Actually, the group aims at duplicating
this experience at the national level. The AMADEP has additionally created a
blog for the association http://amadep.blogspot.com in order to promote their activities
and another blog http://ifranepress.blogspot.com/, which is
an electronic newspaper of the Ifrane province.
Promote our NGO, Expand our Network & Develop
partnerships
Arkhabil Association of
Culture and Cevelopment is situated 5 kilometeres away from the city of Azrou
in the village of Ait Ouall located in the Tigrigra constituency. The association is aiming
at contributing to the promotion and the development of the region through the
implementation of several projects focusing on culture, education, environment,
health and rural tourism. In this respect, Arkhabil has created a blog http://assarkhabilarkhabil.blogspot.com/ and a Facebook page to ptomote their activities and reinforce their
outreach strategy with its network on the local, national and international
levels. Arkhabil Photo Album on Picassa: https://picasaweb.google.com/104379977709289533352/AssArkhabilTakafat?authkey=Gv1sRgCIzUjPrJ4vrOEw
The Moroccan-American association for Communication and Cultural
cooperation MAACCC is an association of graduates and students of the faculty
of letters in Meknes. It manages its network and expands it through its
Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Moroccan-American-Association-For-Communication-and-Cultural-Cooperation/177649078948487
Launch campaigns
The theatre association for
culture and development in the region of Ifrane has launched a campaign on
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/kytab in order to collect 5000 books
on human development for secondary
schools students
in the region of Azrou.
Advocacy
Namaa association for development, training and
communication in Wisslane in the city of Meknes advocates and manages its local
area as well as its activities through its page on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/جمعية-نماء-للتنمية-والتكوين-والتواصل-ويسلان/196353690394897
E-Mediat program:
The E-mediat program aims to
increase NGO knowledge and skills to use new media effectively and to promote
their access to these new communication channels to enable them to advance
their unique missions and strengthen their organizations.
It is a program of
international cooperation, administered by the Institute for
International Education (IIE) and funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI)
of the United States Department of State with the support and kind donations
from Microsoft,
Cisco and the CraigList Charitable Fund.
In addition to Morocco, the
program is implemented in five other countries in the MENA region, namely
Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen.
E-Mediat
Morocco:
For the year 2011-2012, the E-Mediat
Morocco program is hosted by the Tanmia association
in Rabat and implemented in the Oriental and the Middle Atlas regions in
partnership with:
1- AGEF Oriental in
Oujda
2- The Centre of
Azrou for community development of Al Akhawayn University, and
3- The association of
Youth without borders in Meknes El Hajeb.
E-Mediat Morocco
training sessions have started since June 2011 and are implemented through the
following schedule:
·
Workshop 1"Social
Media Overview and Strategic planning" Oujda (June 17, 18, 19), Meknès (June 24, 25, 26) et Azrou
(June 27, 28,29),
·
Workshop 2 "Social
Media & Networked NGOs: listening and web presence" Oujda
(July 23,24), Azrou (July 27,28) et Meknès (Juillet 29,30),
·
Workshop 3 “ Strategic use of social
networks for NGOs: Facebook & Twitter” Meknes (September 24-25), Azrou
(September 26,27) et Oujda (October 1, 2).
·
Workshop Microsoft 1 “Microsoft Office2010
et video Editing via Movie Maker” Azrou (26, 27 October), Meknes (29,30
October) Oujda (12, 13 November).
·
Workshop 4 “Digital Movies production & internet activism” planned on
December 2011.
·
Workshop Microsoft 2 “Microsoft Live
Essentials” planned in December 2011
·
Workshop 5 “Mobile Strategy & Shared lessons” planned in January
2012
·
Workshop Microsoft 3 “Microsoft Expression
Studio for Web” planned in January 2011
Picture of
E-Mediat Morocco workshops on Picassa:
Contact E-Mediat Morocco
For a better communication and exchange with NGOs
participating in training, partners and all Internet users, the team of the
"E-mediat» Morocco has launched the blog program http://e-mediat-morocco.blogspot.com. This blog includes rich and varied topics:
educational tools related to social media, news articles on the progress of the
program, Success Stories ...
We invite you to visit our blog and our Facebook page
and follow our updates via Twitter @emediatmorocco.
Your interaction, your input
and especially your feedback are the true source of our inspiration.
On your keyboards everyone,
and let’s keep connected.
For more information on
E-mediat Morocco, do not hesitate to contact Widad EL HANAFI, the Program
Director in Morocco via email: widad.el.hanafi@gmail.com
