Menia Schools Free Open Source Software (FOSS) Project

Since January 2005, ArabDev in cooperation with volunteers from Eglug have been training teachers and students in FOSS in two Adadeya schools (Salah el Din and Adib Wahba) of Menia's Abu Qorkas district. The project is working in collaboration with the Menia Ministry of Education (MOE) department. The computer supervisor and his staff are being trained with the teachers to assist the MOE department in replicating and scaling the project to other schools in the district and in Menia governorate.

Menia Schools Information Technology (IT) Project

Since October 2002, ArabDev has trained 20 teachers and 600 studens at eight (8) elementary schools in Menia governorate on how to use IT for education.

ArabDev has just completed its first pilot phase during which Egyptian NGOs were getting exposed to information and communication technologies (ICTs) as an additional tool to use in their developmental work. The main goal was for NGOs to establish how they want to use the new technology to advance their work. ArabDev’s philosophy is to enhance self-reliance of its member NGOs so that they become ICT centers for their served communities and be able to expand the new technology tools to other interested NGOs in their geographical area.

As an outcome of the ArabDev phase 1 implementation we are currently piloting developmental projects throughout Egypt where different NGOs are using ICT for environmental advocacy, for education at local schools and to increase earned income of poor and deprived communities.