ICTDAR participated in the International Youth Forum " Youth Speak, We Listen - Voices for Peace" organized by The Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement (SMWIPM):
Her Excellency Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, Founder and President of the Suzanne Mubarak Women's International Peace Movement has announced the upcoming International Youth Forum (Youth Speak - We Listen!), which will be planned, organized and run by youth. The forum aims to bring together young people from all parts of the world, in an effort to highlight their enormous potential as change-makers. It will give them the opportunity to voice their needs, exchange ideas and best practices, join forces and help youth strengthen their capacity to address sources of conflict in their environments and devise positive and peaceful suggestions to these key issues.
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 1-3 September 2007
ICTDAR and CISCO co-organized a regional training on MYTecC initiative in Morocco - Agenda - Press Conference Programme - Photo Gallery - Read more about MYTecC initiative...
Marrakesh, 15-26 July 2007
ICTDAR launched ICTARB Yemen and conducted the Training of Trainers in AjialCom center in Taiz.
Yemen, 15-22 July 2007
ICTDAR organized a training on SMEs Toolbox in Yemen in a partnership with TAGO in AjialCom center in Sana'a
Yemen, 8-14 July 2007
ICTDAR participated in “The International Colloquium: Empowering Women in Engineering and Technology” Global Efforts for Local Empowerment.
ICTDAR and The Moroccan Ministry of Youth (SECJ) launched ICTARB Morocco and conducted the training of trainers for 5 of young visually impaired - Photo Gallery
Rabat, 9 May 2007
ICTDAR and TAGorg launched a new business tool for micro, small and medium sized Arab enterprises "M/SMEs Toolbox": fostering better business practices through ICT for development - Press Release - Media Advisor - SMEs Toolbox Factsheet - Photo Gallery - Media Coverage
Amman, 30 April 2007
ICTDAR participated in "The First African Conference on Human Development" - strengthening of South-South cooperation meeting organized by the Kingdom of Morocco in partnership with the United Nations Development Program. Meeting Agenda
Rabat, 6-7 April 2007
ICTDAR announced the opening of the PICTA Academy (AjialCom Lebanon) in Qana
Qana, Lebanon, 9 March 2007
ICTDAR signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Dubai School of Government (DSG) and Microsoft Gulf to work jointly to transfer the eGovernment Arab Sharing Portal management to DSG with the support of MS.
Abu Dhabi, 10 Januray 2007
ICTDAR co-organize the "Expert Group Meeting on Open Source Software Solutions for the Public Sector in the Arab Region" with UNESCWA & UNESCO
Cairo, 19-21 December 2006
ICTDAR, UNDP Somalia and ITU co-organized the "First Somali National ICT Policy Consultation Workshop" as part of a broader effort to develop the Somali national strategy for ICT development.
Nairobi - Kenya, 6-8 December 2006
ICTDAR co-organized the "Middle East & North Africa Telecentre Stakeholders' Consultation" workshop with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Cairo, 5-7 December 2006
ICTDAR participated in the "Strengthening Social Science Research in the Middle East / Arab Region" experts workshop, organized by the Population Council for East Asia & North Africa
Dubai, 26-27 November 2006
ICTDAR participated in the first "Arab Parliamentarian Conference on Youth" in Egypt, organized by the League of Arab States and UN Population Fund (UNFPA)
Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 11-13 November 2006
Ms Amat Al Soswa, Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator & Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States, visited ICTDAR office. ICTDAR team presented a brief on ICTDAR projects for phase I (2003-2006)
Cairo, 6 November 2006
ICTDAR and the Professional Computer Association of Lebanon (PCA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support the PCA ICT Academy (PICTA) Programme in Lebanon
Lebanon, 10 October 2006
ICTDAR officially launched ICTARB Tunisia in partnership with the Ministry of Women's Affair, CNIPE and CAWTAR - Press Release - Press Coverage - Launch Speechs (Ministry of Women Affairs, ICTDAR & CAWTAR)
Tunisia, 29 September 2006
ICTDAR and CDER officially launched the ICT Hub of (SMEs Toolkit & Portal) in the presence of Minister of Energy and Mines, CDER Director General, UNDP Morocco Resident Representative and UNDP/ICTDAR Regional Coordinator - Press Release - Photo Gallery - Media Coverage - Launch Brochure
Marrakech, Morocco, 18 September 2006
ICTDAR launched three community access centers under AjialCom project in Taiz, Mukalla, and Al-Hudaida. AjialCom project in Yemen is a partnership between ICTDAR, UNDP Yemen, Microsoft and the National Youth Center. Photo Gallery - Media Coverage
Taiz, Yemen, 7 September 2006
ICTDAR and The World Development Forum co-organized the "The Government Technology Summit – Middle East " in Dubai - Media Coverage
Dubai, 3-5 September 2006
ICTDAR participated in the "International e-Participation & Local Democracy Symposium", which is sponsored by Centre of Excellence for Local eDemocracy (ICELE), ODPM, UNDESA, NASS and the Council of Europe - Agenda.
Budapest, Hungary, 26-28 July 2006
ICTDAR organized the "SME Toolkit Training" in Marrakech.
Marrakech, 18-24 July 2006
ICTDAR held the Steering Committee meeting for AjialCom project in Morocco.
Rabat, 17 July 2006
ICTDAR participated in the "First International Conference and Exhibition of All Actors of Development Co-operation (Tenerife)" which is supported by the European Commission specially by the Directorate General of Development, the Spanish Government and the Local Government of the Canary Islands - Agenda (English)
Canary Islands, Spain, 26-28 June 2006
ICTDAR particpated in the “Solution Sharing Network Summit” organized by Microsoft EMEA in Dublin.
Dublin , Ireland , 7-8 June 2006
ICTDAR participated in the "2006 Microsoft Global Community Affairs Summit" takinf place in Redmond, Washington.
Redmond, Washington, 17-18 May 2006
ICTDAR participated in the "IRAQ ICT ALLIANCE Workshop" which organized by the USAID - Agenda - Overview
Amman, Jordan, 8 May 2006
ICTDAR officially launched the second ICTARB center in Egypt in Semoha - Alexandria, in a partnership with Egypt's Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Resala NGO, Sakhr Software Company and Vodafone Group for Communications
Alexandria, 16 April 2006
ICTDAR, Abu Dhabi Men's College - HCT and Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) coorganized "Abu Dhabi Summit on Information and Communication Technology"
Abu Dhabi, 19-20 March 2006
ICTDAR participated in the "World Telecommunication Development Conference" (WTDC-06) in Qatar
Doha, Qatar, 7-15 March 2006
ICTDAR co-sponsored the "International Forum of ICT Strategies and Investment" with the Ministry of Economic & General Affairs, Islamic Develpoment Bank, AIDMO and ISESCO - for more information
Marrakech, 1-3 March 2006
ICTDAR co-organized the "1st High Level Seminar on e-Procurement", in paertnership with The Department of Public Administration & Department of IT of the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in collaboration with Formez, the Institute of the Department of Public Administration for innovation and public management training -
Naples , Italy, 30-31 January 2006
ICTDAR co-sponsered the "Bahrain e-Voting Forum" with the Central Informatics Organisation (CIO) of Kingdom of Bahrain
ICTDAR co-organized "Career and capacity building for women journalists in the Maghreb" with UNESCO and ISIC - Agenda
- Photo Gallery - Press Gallery
Rabat, 16-28 January 2006
ICTDAR supports Sudan in its e-Readiness process - Picture
ICTDAR programme actively involved in the WSIS phase II - ICTDAR Activities Agenda - Press - Photo Gallery
( ICTDAR Exhibition Area - eGov Portal Launch - REGI Launch)
Tunisia, 15-19 November 2005
The official launch of ICTARB Egypt center of excellence in Giza - Photo gallery - Press Release - Press
Cairo, 5 October 2005
UNDP/ICTDAR co-sponsored the 3rd Conference on Documentation and Electronic Archiving, organized by Dubai Municipality - Agenda
Dubai, 17-19 September 2005
Official launch of ICTARB Project in Syria for visually impaired & blinds - Press - Photo Gallery
Salameya, 7 September 2005
ICTDAR co-sponsored The Third Shaam International Conference (Shaam 2005) "ICT and Poverty Alleviation" with the Ministry of Communications and Technology, Syrian Telecom, Ministry of Higher Education, Ministry of Information, and Ministry of Transport Under the Patronage of Syrian Prime Minister - Agenda
Damascus, 4-6 September 2005
UNDP/ICTDAR signed an agreement with the Yemeni Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation and the National Culture Center for Youth to establish three pilot Community Access Centers (CACs) in Yemen - Press
Sana'a, 22 August 2005
ICTDAR supports the Palestinian government for eStrategy, Women and Youth Empowerment initiatives - Press
24 July 2005
ICTDAR coorganize the Regional Workshop on "ICT for Education" in partnership with UNESCO, ANRT, Ministry of Economic and General Affairs and Ministry of National Education, Higher Education, Staff Training and Scientific Research - Agenda - Photo Gallery
Rabat, 12-14 July 2005
ICTDAR, Capacity 2015 Arab States and UNDP/SURF-AS are coorganizing the Regional workshop on "Capacity Development for Strategic Planning, Community of Practice on Local Governance and Localizing the MDGs" - Concept paper - Agenda
Cairo, 1-4 July 2005
Official Launch of CD ROM of WRCATI Egypt during the event of the working women day organized by the National Council for Women - Agenda
Cairo, 30 May 2005
ICTDAR organized the "Train the Trainer" workshop in Somalia - Agenda -
Press
Hargheisa, 21-26 May 2005
ICTDAR coordinated a regional workshop on "Fighting Illiteracy through Technology" - Agenda - Recommendations
- Photo Gallery
Cairo, 11-12 May 2005
ICTDAR sponsored the e-content session of The Pan Regional Conference on WSIS - Phase II, "An Arab-Regional Dialogue" - Agenda
Cairo, 8-10 May 2005
ICTDAR paticipated in the GKP, Global Knowledge Partnership, conference - Announcements - Agenda
4-5 May 2005
ICTDAR coorganized the Arab e-Content Expert Group meeting in Cairo - Programme - Press
Cairo,9-10 April 2005
ICTDAR started two new ICT4D initiatives in Syria: ICTDAR signed a Memorandum Of Understanding with UNDP Syria for ICTARB and SMEs projects
Syria,5 April 2005
The Official Launch of CD ROM and website of WRCATI project in Tunis - Programme - Press - Photo Gallery - Brochure
Tunis, 23 March 2005
Official launch of the Regional Center of Excellence for the "Use of ICT for the Small & Medium Enterprises" - ICTDAR, Microsoft & CDER signed the agreement for the project
Marrakech, 18 March 2005
ICTDAR coordinated a meeting with UNICEF, ILO, HCHR and HARPAS to discuss the "Info Youth Portal" initiative for the Arab Region
Cairo, 15 March 2005
Seminar on "Using the New Information & Communication Technologies & the Development of the Exchanges between the countries of UMA - Agenda - Recommendations - Photo Gallery
Tangiers, 1-3 March 2005
Official Launch of CD ROM and Website of WRCATI project in Lebanon. ICTDAR Regional Coordinator did the opening with UNDP Resident Representative, Rrepresentative from EU delegation and director of Lebanese Council to Resist Violence Against Women - Press Release - Photo Gallery
Lebanon, 8 February 2005
Microsoft, UNDP/ICTDAR and the association Cawtar signed the partnership at UNDP Office in Tunis
Tunis, 27 January 2005
ICTDAR, Bureau for development Policy and UNDP Morocco co-organized the "Regional workshop on Aid Management" - Conclusions & Recommendations - Review of Aid Management and Reporting Data Systems
- Photo Gallery
Marrakech, 20-22 December 2004
ICTDAR and ADWEA organized a Conference on "Information & Communication Technology for Sustainable Development" (Regional & International Experiences) - Recommendations - ICTDAR presentation
- Photo Gallery
Abu Dhabi, 12-13 December 2004
ICTDAR gave a presentation on "ICT in North Africa: challenges and opportunities "
2-3 December 2004
Najat Rochdi: Internet access provides youth with increased training opportunities (French)
EMARRAKECH.info article, 25 November 2004
ICTDAR participated in the Second Regional Preparatory Conference for the WSIS - Recommendations (Arabic)
Damascus, 22-23 November 2004
ICTDAR attended the Arab Working Group 12th meeting for the preparatory of the WSIS - Agenda - Conclusion
Cairo, 12-13 October 2004
ICTDAR was invited to give a presentation to the 'Academy Conference - Educating Tomorrow’s Networking Professionals 2004'
Cairo, Egypt, 11-12 October 2004
ICTDAR organize the Second Meeting of Steering Committee - Family Rights through access to information - Agenda - Photo Gallery
Beirut, 7-8 October 2004
ICTDAR officialy launched "Ajialcom" programme - Photo Gallery
Morocco, 1 October 2004
ICTDAR attended the "JORDAN ICT FORUM 2004"
Amman, 14-15 September 2004
ICTDAR was invited as adviser for the First Connectivity Africa / CATIA Advisory Committee in Mauritius
13 September 2004
ICTDAR was invited to give a presentation to the 'e-Merging e-Learning conference' in Abu Dhabi on 'Knowledge society in the Arab Region'
Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., 5-6 September 2004
ICTDAR organized the Marrakech workshop on ICT for SME’s
- Agenda
6-8 July 2004
ICTDAR attended the preparatory meeting of the WSIS -Tunis phase II
Hammamet, Tunisia, 24-26 June 2004
ICTDAR organized a workshop on National e-Strategies - Regional and International Experiences Shared
Beirut, Lebanon, May 27 and 28, 2004
ICTDAR coorganized the "The Arab Business Forum for Information and Communication Technology" - Agenda
Cairo, 2 May 2004
ICTDAR organized the "eGovernment workshop" in Tunisia - Agenda - Brochure
Tunisia, 19-20 April 2004
ICTDAR organized the "eGovernment workshop" in Morocco - Programme - Photo Gallery
Morocco, 23-24 March 2004
Microsoft Government Leader's Forum Arabia 2004
- Agenda - Presentation
24-25 January 2004
Microsoft signs Memorandum of Understanding with UNDP/ICTDAR - to Combat Poverty in Developing Nations
Morocco and Egypt, two Arab countries chosen to implement projects under the global agreement.
23 January 2004
Preparatory meeting for EC gender project
- Photo Gallery
20-21 December 2003
ITU regional symposium on women and ICT - Agenda - Presentation
Cairo, 17-19 December 2003
ICTDAR organized the 'building knowledge societies in the Arab world' panel at WSIS
12 December 2003
ICTDAR organized the "e-Government workshop" - Photo Gallery - Agenda -
Presentations: Najat Rochdi Speech - James Rawley Speech - ICTDAR presentation
Sanaa, Yemen, 1st-3rd December 2003
ICTDAR's office established in Cairo, Egypt
October 2003
The UNDP Arab Human Development Report 2003, identifies knowledge as one of the most important factors for development in the Arab Region - Arabic and French
October 2003