Case Study Adventures - Armenia, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Morocco, Romania and Ukraine

Open List - Please add examples of interesting and relatively unknown projects in your country (not only in the cities) from leadership programmes through soup kitchens all the way to civic hacking. Basically anything that falls under employment, social protection or data.

This covers a lot of ground and can be anything these days. The key criteria is that they are grassroots driven, with little or no institutional support.

Who and What?    Why do you think their work is important or interesting? Description of what they do City (or town/village), Country Contact Your name, Edgeryders handle
Reffy - ريفي Because they're introducing new healthy products to the Egyptian citizens like enormous kinds of bees honey, herbs and oils. 

They’re producing, packaging,marketing and identifying healthy Egyptian foods. Reviving the heritage of Egyptian food.

Cairo, Egypt

Address not available.

Samar knows Youssef Essam, the founder.

Samar Ali @SamarAli
Mwazna - موازنة Because they simplify the government budget to the normal Egyptian citizens.  Making government budget available to everyone by explaining and visualizing it.  Cairo, Egypt Tarek Amr and Amr Sobhy, the co-founders.  Samar Ali, @SamarAli
Priscilla Queen of Medina They successfully engage local community and foreigners in art projects and provide an alternative accommodation for visitors of Marrakech. This is an artist residency and performance/event space based in the Marrakech Medina, the owners engage the local community and visitors from all over the world to create art and more.  Marrakech, Morocco

27 Derb el Ferrane, Azbezt, Medina Marrakech.

The co-founders, Hanaa and Siyam

Anna Kamay @Iriedawta
ANOU NGO  zThey give the opportunity to craftsmen in Morocco sell their own goods with fair prices without having to go through an intermediary. The craftsmen have their accounts from where they can upload each item they make and sell it at a price they desire.Anou represents a fundamental shift in the fair-trade industry. Instead of asking how organizations can help, we ask how can we build a resilient community of artisans where outside help and fair-trade organizations are no longer needed. A community of artisans working together to establish equal access to the free market. Various locations, Morocco n/a Anna Kamay @Iriedawta
Atlasnow  Angelo is a New York based artisit and pro skier that helps the local mountain guides get a professional training and qualification which is otherwise impossible for them to obtain.  Atla(s)now is a community platform for cross-disciplinary collaboration created by Angelo Bellobono (artist and ski coach) to explore the potential of art and skiing in defining creative placemaking to positively transform and enrich communities on the Higher Morroccan Atlas mountains.  Oukaimeden, High Atlas mountains, Morocco Angelo - the founder Anna Kamay @Iriedawta
Homeland Developement initiative Foundation HDIF strives to enliven Armenian economy putting stress on developement of rural areas. They focus especially on women. A number of projects are run in regions: traditional hand-made dolls, chrochet, bags with traditional ornaments, woodworks, ceramics, etc. They are also organizing festivals in rural areas, like Taraz /clothes usually traditional ones/ fest, honey and berry fest, Golden wheat fest, etc. Thus, fostering the developement of tourism as well. A great case of social enterprise in Armenia.  ? ? ? Amalia Kamalian, @Amalia Kamalian
Kolba Labs

Kolba labs is a social venture incubator. They are identifying social challenges and helping those who have ideas how to be a positive change make their ideas come true. They are open for collaboration.

? ? ? Amalia Kamalian, @Amalia Kamalian
One Armenia It's a community organization bazed in Yerevan and New York City. They are  facilitating cultural and technological areas in Armenia. They are crowdsourcing 2-4 cultural and technological projects per year. And though they are focusing mainly on Armenia but also globally.Crowdsourcing, volunteering, creativity and invention are the keywords.  ? ? ? Amalia Kamalian, @Amalia Kamalian
HeyMarie it attempts to change mentalities in Romania about the young generation and values a community of Millennials discussing the big issues of early adulthood in a time of uncertainty but also of great potential for autonomy and self-starter culture.  Bucharest, Romania Alex Stef @Alex Stef
Casa Jurnalistului    independent journalism Bucharest, Romania ? @Alex Stef
Claca     Bucharest, Romania ? @Alex Stef
ECOLISE they support local communities across Europe in their efforts to build pathways to a sustainable future European Network of Community-Led Initiatives on Climate Change and Sustainability ? ? @Lili David
Leadership school in Armenia

This school is really important for young armenian people it make them more independent, help to realise their ideas, develop their organizing, communicating creating skills, learn to love nature and other peoples, gives possibility to visite orphanages, nursing home organize events, games.

? Yerevan, Armenia Congress Hotel (Yerevan) Address: Italy 1 str., Yerevan, 0010, Armenia. e-mail: info@leadershipschool.am phone: (37410) 559-126 Zara, @zaraavi
Cairo Tech Map Visualising information often reveals valuable otherwise-hidden information. The tech sector is rapidly expanding in Egypt, and the Tech Map shows its main Connector Nodes: Companies such as ItWorx or Sysdsoft. Mapping over time, TA telecom seems to be developing potential ahead of its time. The Cairo Tech Map is a "comprehensive survey of the Cairo tech sector" by Mercy Corps Egypt and Endeavour Insight. Cairo, Egypt http://www.cairotechmap.com/ Mohamed Hegazy, @Hegazy
Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences CI-LAS currently has ~40 students enrolled in its one-year liberal arts study programme. Its education is unique, both focusing on a liberal arts curriculum encompassing a wide array of fields in the Humanities; as well as a discussion and application based learning methodology. Both are currently unique within Egypt's largely stagnating educational sector. CILAS is currently preparing their third enrolment year.  The Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences CILAS invites students from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds to engage with the liberal arts through a pedagogy of discovery. CILAS hosts a dynamic, discussion-based learning environment conducive to creative inquiry, self-reflection, and civic engagement. Co-creation of knowledge at CILAS is fostered through classroom discussion and debate, workshops, musical performances, guest lectures, field visits, cooking, laughing, and listening.  Cairo. Egypt 36 Al-Muiz Al-Din Allah Al-Fatimi Street, Islamic Cairo, Egypt  Mohamed Hegazy, @Hegazy
SEKEM Sekem started on an empty desert land in 1977 with a vision of sustainable agricultural development based on biodynamic farming principles. Today SEKEM employs more than 4000 farmers on its reclaimed farm, in addition to a multitude of companies, associations and educational institutions.   SEKEM's goals are to "restore and maintain the vitality of the soil and food as well as the biodiversity of nature" through sustainable, organic agriculture and to support social and cultural development in Egypt. They locally and globally advocate for a holistic approach to sustainable development."  SEKEM main farm SEKEM main Farm Hegazy, @Hegazy
Utopian Lab A community of independent professionals - programmers, designers, game developers, translators, writers etc. - who share a workplace to share facilities, ideas and our daily inspiration. Coworking space in Yerevan. Yerevan, Armenia Address: Hanrapetutyan 67/48 (entrance from Tpagrichner street) Coordinates: 40.178541,44.518993 Email: hola@utopianlab.am, XMPP: utopeanlab@spyurk.am Phone: 055 822 445, 055 420 027 @inge 
Meeting Point Meeting point is a flexible platform, designed and dedicated for various open air artistic expressions, events, exhibitions, experimental theater plays, dance, movie screenings etc. They are open for everybody when they host events, and they welcome collaboration ideas and provide space and ground for artists  Jrvezh, Yerevan, Armenia Lilit Paravyan - the founder

Anna

@iriedawta

Institute of Contemporary Art & Nest

Alternative art and education/community center This is the only art education program in Armenia offering experimental syllabuses and it is led by a faculty of key theorists, curators, artists and arts managers operating in Armenia.  Yerevan, Armenia Nvard Yerkanian - program manager @ ICA

Anna

@iriedawta

Tumo Center for Creative Technologies Tumo is a new kind of after-school learning environment where students aged 12-18 are in charge of their own learning.  Guided by skilled educators and mentored by media professionals, students navigate through their personal learning plans via the Tumo World, a special learning interface that prepares them for hands-on practice. Specialized workshops, guest lectures and community events give students a chance to apply their knowledge and skills to the world around them.  Yerevan, Armenia  Marie Lou Papazian and some of the teachers

Anna

@iriedawta

Kind Rovar (Добры Ровар)

They activity helps to engage new people for cooperation and making common deals together using newmedia and crowdsourcing technologies. Free bikerenting System

Minsk,

Belarus

Kirill Kudravets

https://vk.com/hidden_harmony

Mikhail
Cinema Perpetuum Mobile These guys create opportunity for local alternative moviemakers to present their work over all country. International Film Festival Belarus

Lina Miadzvedzeva

miadzvedzeva@gmail.com

Mikhail
Freemarket This is more than place for different stuff exchange. It is place for exchanging ideas and platform for different grassroot projects Different types of free market (books, schools, clothes, bikes etc) Belarus

Ksyusha Malyukova

https://vk.com/kmalyukova

Mikhail
Dar el Hanane Healthcare in Morocco is inaccessible to poorer communities, and many families in Marrakech cannot afford hospital bills. By providing minor urgent care to those who cannot usually access it will keep many of the population healthier and help alleviate poverty. In turn, working with local communities and doctors the new healthcare centre will provide better working environments. The centre will provide excellent and affordable healthcare to underprivileged patients presenting with minor emergency care needs. Marrakech, Morocco

Clare Minejem

+212 (0) 643168708

mail@darelhanane.org

Cara Mulholland

@caraaoibh

Dar Bellarj Foundation for Moroccan Culture With not many opportunites for Marrakech locals, children and adults alike, to get involved with art and music this foundation provides an open space to exaplore and promote their culture. With exhibitions and events regularly held the space brings together local and foreign people to appreciate Moroccan culture. This is important in providing a lively, dynamic and safe area in the centre of the old city. The foundation promotes a lively and dynamic cultural space. They run art and music workshops for adults and children, and provide a space for groupwork or performances. Marrakech, Morocco

Maha Elmadi - Director

contact@darbellarj.org

Cara Mulholland

@caraaoibh

ALC Community Service Club As a student led group reaching out to people in less advantageous situations this is a great example of young people wanting to make change. The club members gain invaluable experience for their CVs, but also contribute to building safer, more open, cohesive values in the greater Marrakech area. The CSC Community Service Club is a club which is run by students from the American Language Centre who want to make a contribution and a difference to the community in a variety of ways. They work within Marrakech city, but also surrounding towns an neighbourhoods, supporting projects and organisations such as orphanages, schools, hospitals or community work. They do this through fundraising and outreach activities. Marrakech, Morocco Open Facebook Group

Cara Mulholland

@caraaoibh

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I believe the editing the HTML table is not possible, as the permissions for the body on the edit tab are set to forbidden. :slight_smile:

can u try again

It is working for me. just tried it. can you try again now

Hmm sorry about that

Am on the road and on flaky connectivity. See Noemi’s comment below (just post your contribution in a comment here instead of editing the wiki directly)?

Semi-private group alert

Guys, this group is semi-private: as the name says, it is a coordination space for the project. If you want something to be public (for example you want to share it on Twitter) create another public group and put that something there.

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Alberto the list is for the recruitment process.

Hello to all

How can I to write?

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Edit the wiki

@Hegazy, @zaraavi hi!

I checked too and the wiki is editable, but only by group administrators & community managers here on the platform because, like Alberto said, the group has also semi-public project documentation Sorry about that, once we put together a team we’ll make a new group that will only contain fully public info. To not have to go to other pages right now I suggest you put the names of the initiatives you know or are connected with in a comment on this thread. We’ll then compile them all into the table. Works?

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Hi Noemi

Thank you for answer. It’s good idea. I already wrote my project in comment

project 1

Leadership school in Armenia

Why do you think their work is important or interesting?

This school is really important for young armenian people it make them more independent, help to realise their ideas, develop their organizing, communicating creating skills, learn to love nature and other peoples, gives possibility to visite orphanages, nursing home organize events, games.

Yerevan, Armenia

The lessons are held in Congress Hotel (Yerevan).

Address: Italy 1 Str., Yerevan, 0010, Armenia.

E-mail: info@leadershipschool.am

Phone: (37410) 559-126

http://www.leadershipschool.am/en/study.php

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Case Studies from Egypt

Hi @Nadia and @Noemi,

As I mentioned in my comment on the group, I’ve contacted two of the three project that would be case studies for EdgeRyders community. I’m writing the answers about them here as the Wiki isn’t editable yet.

  1. Reffy - ريفي
    • Because they're introducing new healthy products to the Egyptian citizens like enormous kinds of bees honey, herbs and oils.
    • They're producing, packaging, marketing and identifying healthy Egyptian foods. Reviving the heritage of Egyptian food.
    • Cairo, Egypt
    • Full address isn't available.
    • Samar Ali, @SamarAli, website not available yet but here it's http://reefyshop.com/
    • Yes, Youssef Essam, the founder.
  2. ​Mwazna - موازنة
    • Because they simplify the government budget to the normal Egyptian citizens.
    • Making government budget available to everyone by explaining and visualizing it.
    • Cairo, Egypt.
    • Full address isn't available.
    • Samar Ali, @SamarAli, http://mwazna.com/
    • Yes, Tarek Amr and Amr Sobhy, the co-founders
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Projects in Armenia and Morocco

So I’ve been thinking of 3 projects in Armenia and Morocco and the Moroccan projects came to my mind quicker somehow. Here they are:

Priscilla Queen of Medina - basically an alternative accommodation - an Artist Residency and Performance/Event Space based in the Marrakech Medina, the owners engage the local community and visitors from all over the world to create art and more.

  1. They successfully engage local community and foreigners in art projects and provide an alternative accommodation for visitors of Marrakech
  2. This is an artist residency and performance/event space based in the Marrakech Medina, the owners engage the local community and visitors from all over the world to create art and more.
  3. Marrakech, Morocco
  4. 27 Derb el Ferrane, Azbezt, Medina Marrakech
  5. Anna Kamay @iriedawta
  6. https://priscillaqueenofthemedina.wordpress.com/2014/12/05/priscilla-queen-of-the-medina/
  7. Yes, the co-founders, Hanaa and Siyam

ANOU NGO 

  1. They give the opportunity to craftsmen in Morocco sell their own goods with fair prices without having to go through an intermediary. The craftsmen have their accounts from where they can upload each item they make and sell it at a price they desire.Anou represents a fundamental shift in the fair-trade industry. Instead of asking how organizations can help, we ask how can we build a resilient community of artisans where outside help and fair-trade organizations are no longer needed.
  2. A community of artisans working together to establish equal access to the free market.
  3. Various locations, Morocco
  4. N/A
  5. Anna Kamay @iriedawta
  6. http://www.theanou.com/about
  7. Not personally but the travel venture I work for collaborates with them

Atlasnow

  1. Angelo is a New York based artisit and pro skier that helps the local mountain guides get a professional training and qualification which is otherwise impossible for them to obtain.
  2. Atla(s)now is a community platform for cross-disciplinary collaboration created by Angelo Bellobono (artist and ski coach) to explore the potential of art and skiing in defining creative placemaking to positively transform and enrich communities on the Higher Morroccan Atlas mountains.
  3. Oukaimeden, High Atlas mountains, Morocco
  4. N/A
  5. Anna Kamay @iriedawta
  6. http://www.atlasnowproject.com/en/mission/
  7. Yes, Angelo - the founder

I will write about projects in Armenia tomorrow :slight_smile:

Cheers,

Anna

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Case studies Armenia

  1. Homeland Developement initiative Foundation

HDIF strives to enliven Armenian economy putting stress on developement of rural areas. They focus especially on women. A number of projects are run in regions: traditional hand-made dolls, chrochet, bags with traditional ornaments, woodworks, ceramics, etc. They are also organizing festivals in rural areas, like Taraz /clothes usually traditional ones/ fest, honey and berry fest, Golden wheat fest, etc. Thus, fostering the developement of tourism as well. A great case of social enterprise in Armenia.

http://hdif.org/

  1. Kolba Labs

Kolba labs is a social venture incubator. They are identifying social challenges and helping those who have ideas on how to be a positive change and make those ideas come true. They are open for collaboration.

http://kolba.am/en/challenges/

  1. One Armenia

It’s a community organization bazed in Yerevan and New York City. They are  facilitating cultural and technological areas in Armenia. They are crowdsourcing 2-4 cultural and technological projects per year. And though they are focusing mainly on Armenia but they strive to work also globally.Crowdsourcing, volunteering, creativity and invention are the keywords.

http://onearmenia.org/about/

  1. Aralez eco-hause

A nature tourism development centre which is promoting nature tourism opportunities both in local and international markets.As well as assists local communities in developing new nature tourism products. Was founded in 2004 by the Fund for Biodiversity Conservation of Armenian Highland. Cooperates with WWF Norway and WWF Armenia.

http://armnaturetourism.org/en/

What about online engagement: well perhaps it wouldn’t be difficult to engage some of them but then it will need efforts to keep them engaged. For the others it will be a bit difficult to engage. In most cases face to face communication is still to be a first step. Well, if they find it mutually beneficial they will keep tuned.

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Ok, need to make this public

Wow, you guys are really going at it! At this point, this content needs to be made fully public. We cannot do it through the Drupal admin interface though, so we need to throw ourselves at the mercy of @Matthias. Matt, can I bother you to make this whole project fully public via MySQL?

Done.

As confirmed in another comment, the Youth Volunteering Coordination Space group and all content is now public.

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How to

Hey Matthias, can you please specify how to edit the table?

Cheers

Should work for you now.

Hi @Iriedawta, somebody had set the text format of this wiki to “Full HTML” which is editable by admins only because it has security implications. There was no need for this, so I switched it back to the default, and now you should be able to edit it as well.

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Yup, it worked! Thanks a lot Matthias! Cheers

Case Studies in Egypt

1. Cairo Tech Map

  • Mercy Corps Egypt, in cooperation with Endeavor Insight.
  • Visualising information often reveals valuable otherwise-hidden information. The tech sector is rapidly expanding in Egypt, and the Tech Map shows its main Connector Nodes: Companies such as ItWorx or Sysdsoft. Mapping over time, TA telecom seems to be developing potential ahead of its time. 
  • The Cairo Tech Map is a "comprehensive survey of the Cairo tech sector" by Mercy Corps Egypt and Endeavour Insight. 
  • Cairo, Egypt
  • Link (Online Only)
  • Mohamed Hegazy, @Hegazy
  • Link

2. CILAS

  • Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • CI-LAS currently has ~40 students enrolled in its one-year liberal arts study programme. Its education is unique, both focusing on a liberal arts curriculum encompassing a wide array of fields in the Humanities; as well as a discussion and application based learning methodology. Both are currently unique within Egypt's largely stagnating educational sector. CILAS is currently preparing their third enrolment year.
  • "The Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences CILAS invites students from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds to engage with the liberal arts through a pedagogy of discovery. CILAS hosts a dynamic, discussion-based learning environment conducive to creative inquiry, self-reflection, and civic engagement. Co-creation of knowledge at CILAS is fostered through classroom discussion and debate, workshops, musical performances, guest lectures, field visits, cooking, laughing, and listening. " 
  • Cairo, Egypt
  • 36 Al-Muiz Al-Din Allah Al-Fatimi Street, Islamic Cairo, Egypt
  • Mohamed Hegazy, @Hegazy
  • Link

3. SEKEM

  • Sekem
  • Sekem started on an empty desert land in 1977 with a vision of sustainable agricultural development based on biodynamic farming principles. Today SEKEM employs more than 4000 farmers on its reclaimed farm, in addition to a multitude of companies, associations and educational institutions. 
  • SEKEM's goals are to "restore and maintain the vitality of the soil and food as well as the biodiversity of nature" through sustainable, organic agriculture and to support social and cultural development in Egypt. They locally and globally advocate for a holistic approach to sustainable development." 
  • SEKEM main farm
  • SEKEM main farm
  • Hegazy, @Hegazy
  • Link
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Still doesn’t work for me :-/

Tried to edit and add case studies from Armenia but still doesn’t work for me. I get a message saying that i’m not authorized to edit the text body.