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Arab <strong>Digital</strong> Expression Camp<br />
Who: Arab <strong>Digital</strong> Expression Foundation<br />
What: Arab <strong>Digital</strong> Expression Camp<br />
Where: Egypt<br />
When: From 1-10-2012 to 30-09-2013<br />
Amount attributed: 15,000 Euro<br />
Arab <strong>Digital</strong> Expression Camp is a yearly residential summer camp for Arab youngsters aged between 12<br />
and 15 years. It aims at promoting the sustainable use of information and communication technologies<br />
for digital expression and artistic creation. Each year they develop - in collaboration with distinguished<br />
Arab professional artists, thinkers, techies, bloggers and educators from across the region - a multi track<br />
educational curriculum in <strong>Digital</strong> Sound and Music, <strong>Digital</strong> Video , Animation and Web 2.0 based on<br />
open source concepts and tools. In these canmps children and young learn how to use new media and<br />
digital culture and specially how to apply these tools to develop freedom of expression and critical<br />
thinking.<br />
On "Training of Trainers" Arab professionals train younger aged 20-30 in implementing this curriculum<br />
and mentoring youngsters (aged 12-15) for a two-week summer residential camp in "digital expression".<br />
These camps bring together youth from all over the Arab world, which ensures that the used<br />
methodology is will be duplicated in the different Arab countries in the future.<br />
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