Thank you!
Nadia, first of all my apologies for not being active for almost a year! After coming back to Morocco I got fully engaged in a start up travel venture, didn’t manage to make it to #LOTE4 and I guess missed a lot. Now I’m back on track and this time around I’m going to have more time to assure my online presence on Edgeryders!
I did see your questions and I’m going to post 3 projects per country(Armenia and Morocco) and will schedule a skype call with you later this week!
Thanks,
Anna
Great to see both old and new faces
Lovely to re-kindle with Amalia, Inge, Zara, Hazem, Gratian, @Iriedawta (I had no idea who you were until I got it from the picture :))
And great meeting all the rest of you,
Just a quick note to @zaraavi: completely agree with online engagement taking time. The social media is easier in the era of “clicktivism”, but true engagement needs ways we may still learn about. We don’t know what exactly works: it could be a strong sense of reward made obvious in a post, the way a call for participation is worded, or maybe it matters who is the person inviting you and if you have a trusted relationship with them. We’re mostly learning, and some things can work better in some countries, not all. So that’s why your insights as engagers-to-be is so important… you know best!
The thing is, to work under a common denominator, we need a space to re-convene, and this is Edgeryders at the moment. So the more confortable we are with online - offline mix of channels, the easier the work will be.
@SamarAli that was fast, reaching out to people already, all feedback is useful. Thanks 
Agreed!
Hi Noemi,
Thank you! Hope you are doing well! I was not active for almost a year, no wonder you didn’t recognize my name 
I agree it should be a mix of online-offline channels in Armenia as not everybody is e-literate in the regions. I am sure meeting face-to-face is the right way to start the online engagement as well as the idea of reward made obvious. Trust is a cruscial factor too combined with the ability to explain the benefits of participation for the members-to-be.
Cheers,
Anna
Belarus is in the game…
Hello guys,
I can help to find different social- geeks, hackers, innovators and people how develop their local or topic communities in Belarus.
Nadia, if you have extra questions please ask.
Hi Mikhail nice to hear from you
and welcome back. Re questions: if you could have a look at the questions/instructions I posted in this comment that would be great. Thanks!
Hello Nadia,
The first answer is completed. I hope you received last revision of the document.
About second one. Can we communicete during skype(?) conversation? I defined Friday in Doodle. It will be better to set precise time. What do you think about it?
Belarus
Hello all, i’m also interested in the position in Belarus. Should i also answer the questions, i guess?
By the way, are you looking for people from Ukraine? (or maybe i haven’t noticed the post…) i could send information to some partners - should it be Kiev only, or other cities are ok, too?
My best regards,
Yuliya
Belarus + Ukraine
Yes, @yuliya.stankevich, you should answer the same questions. And yes, we are hiring someone from Ukraine too, and no, the person does not have to be Kiev-based. The only issue is: when I visit Ukraine I will spend 3 days in Kiev, and I will need the person who takes this job to accompany me. You are absolutely welcome to forward this post to people you know in Ukraine!
Thanks, Alberto. I have told my colleague from Ukraine, but right at these days she’s busy running a training, in the middle of it…
Dear Alberto,
I have just applied for the support from Ukraine, so I will be more than happy to help you out, and introduce to people, if needed etc. I have written to Nadia, and here in general, for more info.
thanks!!
Natalie
Hi Nadia , Noemi & all
@Nadia , @Noemi I missed you so much . I’m happy hearing these good news about Edgryders & wish you all the best .
I love this community you & Edgryders team have made and I learned a lot of things from your workshop at Egypt , the discussions & projects on this platform . I’d like to be a part of this great successful community and get involved in its small details .
But I’m Afraid I will have more free time to concentrate in any new tasks after September. so I’d like to ask , when will the selected Team begin to do their tasks ?
Hope you will have a good passionate new Team
Mona Rezq
Very sweet
Hello @monarezk, thanks for your kind words. Unfortunately this project is already starting! But hopefully we can meet up anyway in Cairo. We’ll be there in early June.
Never mind , Waiting you at Cairo
Hi @Alberto , it’s my bad luck not to be a part of this project . But on the other side I’ll be happy meeting you at Cairo & I can help .
Hello from Tbilisi!
Hi! I’m Masha from Georgia. Im in love with the Edgeryders community since I’ve met its members in Tbilisi in 2014. Since that I’ve been thinking how can I benefit my skills (organizing various events, project management, marketing) to such an amazing community . So I came up with an idea to sign up and convert my ideas into something real and make a difference in terms of social innovations.
Ukraine is here )
Dear organizers,
very interesting and exciting initiative! I am thrilled to provide an impact and some valuable input to the formation of program data
As an active NGO participant, social trainer, entrepreneur, journalist and just an active citizen, I found it important to provide opportunities, chances to those starting their initiatives, that are engaging into projects, that step by step will input the world in general. It’s so inspiring to be heard, supported and receive new motivation and foundation for further beginnings.
With a political instability and war condition in Ukraine, politicians are now under the loop of the society here now. Many young, open minded people are taking positions in the government, presidential office etc. They provide new public policy approaches, proufound knowledge of modern economy etc. This is one of the biggest results of EuroMaidan, movement that initially was mainly supported by young active Ukrainians, who were opposing pro-Russian directions of the previous government and it’s corruption alongside of usurpation of power. These were young people who were afterwards defending human rights and democratic future of Ukraine, and with their own courage and involvement have changed the total course of action and future for the Ukrainian country. Pleads to hear them, recorded online, were one of the biggest moving forces for the world to understand what were people standing for in the center of Ukraine’s capital. Such documentary initiatives were shown to world leaders, were spread out on Youtube. As a journalist, and media producer I was involved at all stages of Maidan, documenting, twittering, helping foreign media to cover Maidan inside profound stories that have shown major problems in the society, and in general volunteering, to support Maidan civic movement, medical facilities etc.
As well networked, professional PR and media specialist, my recent achievement is to use my knowledge and skills to start media initiative, a story production agency, that is providing profound, well researched, and fact checked information, life stories about Ukraine for the world media community. In addition we are working on social videos, social stories, documentary films/programs etc.
Furthermore, I am involved in social start up incubator that provides support for those who are starting their own creative, useful projects, teaching media coverage skills, personal skills etc.
I was involved in a lot of social projects, through various NGO and initiatives, starting from 14 years old, and I would love to describe more of my experience and knowledge in the personal email.
thank you and hopefully to be helpful and supporting!
Sincerely Natalie
Project Assistance_Belarus
Hello to everyone!
My name is Sasha and I would like to apply for this position based in Minsk, Belarus. What kind of information do you need from me?
With my best regards,
Sasha.
Dear Nadia,
thanks for the quick reply. I have updated the case study with some of the proposed projects here: https://edgeryders.eu/en/youth-volunteering-coordination-space/case-study-adventures-armenia, but can copy in here too:
Dear Nadia,
some interesting cases from Ukraine (would be updated further more)
an NGO, that aims to give press conference platform for NGO sector, social activists, volunteer groups (the number is quite big now in Ukraine, due to the war conditions (contacts can be send further, and their description too). It’s not supported by the goverment, and present an alternative platform opposed to the Ukrainian Crises Media Center, whose mostly presenting govermental officials, and supported NGO initiatives by various donors, and goverment in particular.
Their contact information is
тел.: +38 (096) 929 39 90
тел.: +38 (050) 190 33 30
e-mail: maidanpresscenter@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/maidanpresscenter?fref=ts
https://www.youtube.com/user/maidanpresscenter
https://twitter.com/maidanpress
Contact person is Yulia Mulyavskaya
A good initiative on conflict solving and for creation of safe environment for dialog as to events in Ukraine. Here organizers aim to help participants to be heard and to try different variants of problem-solving via speaking proposals and than creation of the improvised performance. (Via methodology of Theater of oppressed). theatrefordialogueua@gmail.com
https://vk.com/theatrefordialogue
Video expeditions on the state of Crimean and Eastern Ukraine IDPs after escaping war like/conflict territories. The program aims to establish a dialogue with locals of the territories to which IDPs are moving and to picture realities of the Ukrainian conflict alongside creation the data of needs and problems with which IDPs are meeting.
Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA9O-g8nVjUAS0Y-2yhfaPA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/IDP-expeditions/317379851771355?fref=ts
- See more at: https://edgeryders.eu/en/youth-volunteering-coordination-space/case-study-adventures-armenia#sthash.ui8AlJqJ.dpuf
2. Could tell me, what’s your idea to use social media to engage people in this online platform - first to bring them here, and them make them use it on a longer term? How do you make connections with people most effectively in your country? (We know people are used to face to face meetings, but we still want them to use this online platform for dialogue). - See more at: https://edgeryders.eu/en/comment/17099#comment-17099
2. As to the people’s engagement within the platform, good ideas would be to create webinars and video conferences with follow up discussions. Would be great to establish social media groups and great interesting cases forwarded via posts within the social media community. Good idea is to make some short video as to the projects and enhance discussions (a la kickstarter page, with description of the project, some videos of the projects, some video conferences for those interested to partner, contribute or being involved. Good enough would be to establish separate section that will include news, interesting articles and reports or researchers on social programs, activities or enhancement of needed skills, expertise for the social project development. It can be a separate media project for social projects functions, skills, news within the platform (with interesting video reports, video/online text discussions etc
I would be happy to discuss these ideas and more via skype and email. Mine is: nataliegryvnyak, and email nataliegryvnyak@gmail.com. My phone is 0503310124
Would be excited to introduce you various Ukrainian initiatives, and attract fascinating people throughout many countries, as well as support the project with new enhancement ideas to keep the platform up as a potential social projects incubator, lobby opportunity for those seeking to speak up and create something.
Sincerely Natalie
Welcome!
Hi Natalie, nice to meet you! I’m Noemi, also part of the project team, mostly to research countries socio-political contexts that would be helpful to the programme we will be designing together.
Very interesting links, thank you for sharing! The IDP videos have English subtitles, excellent. Sob stories unfortunately, but tell me, what happens after people are interviewed? Where does the information go, are resources mobilized to help?
Dear Noemi, it’s a pleasure to meet you too! You are welcome, these were first projects to pop up in my head ). Yes indeed, these life stories are full of challenges and pain. In general conflict is not a great thing to have, even though it’s a good twist of change and push in other directions. These videos were aired on several thematical programs on IDP, all necessities and needs of people were given to organizations that were dealing with financial, material support for IDPs. These people are being checked upon, and there are plans of the second wave of investigation - one year after, since a lot of things have changed. And it will indeed portray the whole picture of the development of the conflict and situation in Ukraine (many return back, due to economic hardships in Ukraine, even though in occupied territories, economic conditions are even worse. Many launched their own initiative and totally changed their professions and life course. Some were disappointed in Ukrainian realities, some on contrary, became an active volunteer/journalist etc. Plus opinion of the situation has been changed in minds of Ukrainians in some cases. So it’s good to trace, plus how well the dialog has been established ))