DISC Egypt

Live Feeds from the Tunisian Elections

ImadB — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:22:13 +0000

In support of the first elections since the revolution in Tunisia on 23 October 2011, the Tunisian “Higher Independent Election Committee” or ”Instance Supérieure Indépendante pour les Elections” (ISIE) has invited the ICT4Peace Foundation of Switzerland and Ushahidi to put in place the online election monitoring platform: “Carte de Controle du Processus Electorale” (http://carte.isie.tn/fr/main). The project is financially and institutionally supported by DCAF, Geneva.

Under the leadership of Kamal Sedra, ICT4Peace Senior Technical Advisor from Egypt, the ICT4Peace experts Eya Lahmar and Khaled Koubaa from Tunisia, and Imad Bazzi from Lebanon installed the Ushahidi platform and trained the mappers and verificators at ISIE headquarters.

A network of 850 trained reporters representing ISIE are deployed on field all over Tunisia sending reports and observations via sms to the portal where it will be validated by the mapping and verification center before it makes it to the online front-end of the portal carte.isie.tn which is available in Arabic & French .

You can also check the live video streaming page on DISC website here showing the mapping and verification center.

Depuis la révolution populaire en Tunisie, “l’Instance Supérieure Indépendante pour les Elections” (ISIE) a invité la fondation Suisse “ICT4Peace” et Ushahidi pour appuyer les élections du 23 Octobre 2011 en mettent en ligne une plateforme de surveillance des élections (Carte de Contrôle du Processus Electoral; http://carte.isie.tn/fr/main). Le projet est financièrement et institutionnellement pris en charge par DCAF Genève.

Sous la Direction de Kamal Sedra d’Egypte, principal conseillé technique de la fondation ICT4Peace, Eya Lahmar et Khaled Koubaa de Tunisie, experts de la fondation ICT4Peace et Imad Bazzi du Liban ont installé la plateforme Ushahidi et formé les cartographes et les vérificateurs au siège de l’ISIE.

Un réseau de 850 journalistes représentant l’ISIE sont employés sur le terrain partout en Tunisie a envoyer des observations et des rapports via sms vers le portail où ils sont validés par les cartographes et les vérificateurs avant d’être téléchargé en ligne sur le portail en lignecarte.isie.tn qui est disponible dans la langue Arabe et Française..

DISC live broadcast from the Tunisian Elections Monitoring Room

ImadB — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:08:10 +0000

DISC is broadcasting live feeds and video streaming from the Elections monitoring room in Tunisia where mappers and verifiers are validating data and incidents sent via sms from 850 field reporters all over Tunisia.

The system being used is powered by the Ushahidi Technology, managed by DISC, the official ushahidi partner in favor of the Tunisian Elections Committee.

To watch the live feed please visit the “Live” section on DISC website .

شرح مبسط للقوانين الإنتخابية والقرارات المكملة لها

admin — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:12:07 +0000

يتشرف مركز دعم التنمية والتأهيل المؤسسى بدعوة الشباب والمهتمين لحضور الجلسه التوعاوية حول

“شرح مبسط للقوانين الإنتخابية والقرارات المكملة لها”

يدير اللقاء الخبير الأنتخابى د/ ماجد عياد مدير مركز أبحاث

INTAS

ذلك يوم الأثنين الموافق ١٧ اكتوبر ٢٠١١ في تمام السادسة مساءً

بمقر المركز ٢٨ عمارات العبور صلاح سالم، مصر الجديدة

وسوف يتم بث الجلسة مباشرةً (مع امكانية التواصل مع مدير اللقاء) علي موقع المركز في الرابط التالي

http://discenter.com/?page_id=152

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لمزيد من المعلومات والتسجيل ” العدد محدود” برجاء الاتصال على:

24048844 – 01283084440

Info@DISCntr.org

Ushahidi: Introducing Official Partner and Trusted Developer Badges

ImadB — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:10:33 +0000

The Ushahidi platform would not be what it is today if it weren’t for the amazing support of the Ushahidi community. Members of the community continuously improve the open source software, deploy the technology in truly inspiring ways and share invaluable feedback with the Ushahidi team. So we’ve decided to launch an “Official Ushahidi Partner” Badge and a “Trusted Developer” Badge to recognize some of the most active members of the community.

The “Official Ushahidi Partner” Badge is awarded to established organizations who have a demonstrated track-record of excellence in deploying the Ushahidi platform. The “Trusted Developer” Badge is awarded to software developers who have clearly shown their expertise in customizing several Ushahidi platforms. What do these Badges mean for us and what do they imply? They mean that those awarded with said badges are an extension of the core Ushahidi team. They are close colleagues, respected professionals and all around team players. Receiving a Badge implies that these individuals and organizations are Ushahidi experts.

What do these Badges mean to our official partners and trusted developers? For organizations, the “Official Ushahidi Partner” Badge means that we refer potential clients to them first if these clients operate in the same country/region and/or if they focus on a sector that our partners excel in. For our colleagues with “Trusted Developer” Badges, this means we fully endorse them to clients looking for software expertise in the Ushahidi platform. We thus hope they display these badges prominently on their websites, blogs, etc., and link back to the respective blog posts on Ushahidi (to serve as authentication).

In this blog post, we announce our first two recipients. The first is an organization that has not only customized the Ushahidi platform multiple times over the past year, they have also deployed the platform in some of the most challenging environments we’ve seen. Our first “Official Ushahidi Partner” Badge goes to our Egyptian colleagues, the Development and Institutionalization Support Center (DISC), for their outstanding U-Shahid project. DISC customized and deployed the platform for last year’s Parliamentary Elections, during the civil resistance in early 2011 and continue to launch platforms in support of democratic transition efforts in the country. They are also training others in the Arab region on how to use the platform. We are thus very pleased to award our colleagues at DISC with our first Official Ushahidi Partner Badge!

The first recipient of our “Trusted Developer” Badge is no stranger in the Ushahidi community. He has been engaged in the community for almost as long as the Ushahidi platform has been around. He first deployed the Ushahidi platform in Afghanistan back in 2009 and has helped customize a number of other platforms since. He also played a pivotal role in the transition of the Ushahidi-Haiti Project to the Haitian software company Solutions. More recently, he spearheaded the Universities for Ushahidi (U4U) Project with USIP and worked with our team to set up the foundations for our new community site. He has continuously been a team player and has always sported a smile even during the most challenging projects. He is obviously an excellent software developer as well. Our first “Trusted Developer” Badge thus goes to our good friend and colleague, Rob Baker!

On behalf of the entire Ushahidi Team, we would like to expresses our sincere thanks and gratitude for the significant contributions that both DISC and Rob Baker have made to the Ushahidi platform and by extension the Ushahidi community. Many, many thanks to both of you!

DISC Concludes with a training program for staff of the Iraqi parliament

admin — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:53:01 +0000

In conjunction with the opening of the Egyptian consulate in Iraqi Kurdistan Centre for the Development and Institutionalization Support center ( DISC ) organized a training program for the documentation staff of Iraq’s parliament to develop their abilities to use technology in the documentation and management of important documents in collaboration with Democratic Institute International (OIP) in the framework of cooperation to raise the capacity of management performance of the Iraqi parliament.

And Mr./ Kamal Nabil the executive director of the Centre that the program start since 2007 with series of training programs in Turkey because of security conditions in Iraq there, and with the improved of the security situation there the training programs has been transferred to the city of Erbil and the Center has helped the transfer of knowledge, skills and experiences that Egypt have to the brothers in Iraq and the regional proximity helped to understand the Iraq experience and ease of application by Egyptian trainer

Simultaneous Electronic Surveillance of the Egyptian Election

admin — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:31:58 +0000

In light of the growing political movement these days in the Egyptian street on the occasion of the parliamentary elections in 2010 season also talking about the next president of Egypt and the Governing Bodies elections 2011 And claims of civil society organizations government guarantees of the integrity of elections and activating the guideline principles of democracy so the Development and Institutionalization Support center (DISC) performs Simultaneous electronic surveillance of the Egyptian elections program (U Shahid) supporting the current trend in civil society organizations in the age of new media technology , The Mr. / Kamal Nabil Executive Director of the Center that the goal of this program is to support popular participation to the process of election monitoring by the codification of personal observations by what they saw during the electoral process through easy and available means to majority of the society, and these observations are collected on the fly and putting them on a simplified electronic map available on the Internet at the same moment of sending and name this Technology “Ushahidi”, a Swahili word meaning witness and This system has been established in Kenya in 2007 and after seeing the light many countries and organizations raced to apply This system has been applied effectively in a number of countries in the world and also in a number of important emplace a crisis Mexican Influenza “pigs” and also in the disaster in Haiti and also used by Al-Jazeera in monitoring the violations of humanity during the war in Gaza.

Shown in the image of the right Kamal Nabil(Director of DISC) the implementing organization for the project - Esra Abdel Fattah - one of the trainers - Anahi Ayallah Aijucha (project consultant and master trainer Italian nationality)

the trainers

And the website helps the media and election monitors from civil society organizations through the registration Mobile number or E-mail to reach the media reports on the election site to be pursued at the same time of the event.

This program will be done through five training courses in the governorates of Cairo, Alexandria, Assiut, Port Said, Mansoura in which the young activists and politicians from civil society organizations on how to deal with this technology and how to blog their observations and how to train their friends and colleagues in their use and encourage them to do so.

Project is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy and Freedom House and the Sabre OCT Lebanon and carried out the center of this program in cooperation with the Egyptian Democratic Institute.

NGOs Fundraising Training Program

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:56:57 +0000

The Development and Institutionalization Support Center “DISC” has conducted fundraising training program, the training program consisted of two training workshops entitled “Donor Relations”, and “Effective Proposal Writing”. The training workshops were attended by a number of Civil Society Organizations, where they were trained on the practices of establishing relations with donors, and effective proposal writing.

Global Media Monitoring Day “GMMD” – WACC

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:56:17 +0000

DISC had participated at the fourth Global Media Monitoring Project, which was launched around the world at November 10th, 2009 in over 110 countries around the world! DISC has utilized its media production unit to achieve the best results of the monitoring process. Besides other organizations, DISC represented the Middle East and North Africa region.

This unique project studies the representation of women and men in the news. It began fifteen years ago, when people in more than 70 countries round the world monitored their news media on 18 January 1995. In November 2009 DISC’s media monitors participated in this massive, global effort to collect data on selected indicators of gender in their local news media. The media monitoring takes place this year in order to publish the results in time for key global processes scheduled for 2010, including the Beijing +15 review and the Millennium Development Goals Review Summit. It brings together advocates, activists and researchers in an extraordinary global network, dedicated to documenting and changing patterns of portrayal in the news.

Nazaha Wins eDemocracy Forum Award

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:54:38 +0000

Nazaha-eg.net, the website created by DISC as part of the Advocating Transparency and Accountability Project “ATAP,” was awarded the 2009 “Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Politics & the Internet” award from eDemocracy Forum.

This prestigious award seeks to recognize the innovators and pioneers – those who blaze new e-political trails every day, the dreamers and doers who bring democracy online. Trophies were awarded at a ceremony held in the French National Assembly on Thursday, October 22nd, in partnership with the American web portal PoliticsOnline, the Politech Institute of Europe and Blog Territorial.

The Nazaha website is one of the main tools developed by the Advocating Transparency and Accountability Project “ATAP”, supported by the United States Agency for International Development “USAID”. Nazaha acts as a watchdog on issues related to corruption and transparency. The site includes training materials and research papers as resources to activists and interested individuals in the field of combating corruption and enhancing transparency.

http://www.edemocracy-forum.com/2009/09/the-world-edemocracy-forum-announces-finalists-of-the-2009-edemocracy-awards.html

Exploring the German Model”

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:27:55 +0000

The Development and Institutionalization Support Center DISC held a conference entitled “Innovation and Technology Transfer to the Egyptian Industry:
Exploring the German Model” at Nile Hilton Hotel. The conference discussed how to create a new technology to compete the big world companies.

Each sector needs to technology development and Innovation process. The conference was under the auspices of Rachid Mohamed Rachid (Minister of Trade and Industry) and Bernd Erbel (Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany) and in presence of more 150 industrial companies. DISC organized and facilitated many services such as (printing – translation – designing – shooting – invitations – documentation – press and TV coverage).