I just wanted to get your feedback on an idea we came up with for Spot the Future, with Ice Cairo.
We are thinking of hosting, what they refer to as, Ice Dinner on the 14th of April for Spot the Future. Basically, the idea is to invite some people from the hacker and innovation scene in Egypt to talk about and introduce Spot the Future in person and to give them a little teaser. It’ll be a casual dinner at the Ice Cairo premises, open for anyone.
This way, we will attract those innovators to the concept of the project, then they will continue the discussion online, engage more and more on the platform, and hopefully tell other people ‘hey did you hear about this really cool initiative called STF, go on Edgeryders and check it out’. We thought it would be a good and creative way to mobilize people, as a supplement to online engagement! Ice Cairo hosts a lot of these dinners, and it’s been proven to be a successful mechanism for engaging people.
This dinner will be done as a UNDP country office and Ice Cairo event and the online community builder will not have any extra responsibilities or any role with regards to this dinner (unless of course she wants to attend, voluntarily), because as I understood this was Alberto’s main concern! We were also hoping to have one of you guys from Edgeryders on google hangout or skype for 30 minutes or so during the dinner just to introduce Edgeryders and talk about Spot the Future, live; so there will be some kind of an online engagement component 
Anyway, thought i’d run the idea by you guys beforehand, so let me know what you think!! ( please feel free to criticize, we’re open to any ideas…that’s the whole point of asking for your feedback! )