Language

English

Producer

Sultan Qaboos University
Mr. Alaa Sadik

URL

www.alaasadik.net/realshow

Description

Although videoing classroom lessons or producing educational video and flash content for normal learners is not new, few products have been applied to assist teachers and presenters prepare educational video/flash content to deaf learners, or those with learning or perceptual disabilities. Deaf learners as well as other learners can tend to be visual. RealShow project provides a free desktop tool and video sharing website to facilitate the process of producing and sharing quality video content for deaf learners. The tool provides functions that integrate and record PowerPoint slides, freehand drawings, screen text typing, web pages, and direct teacher’s video view in one single frame. It allows teachers creating video or flash content using several translation techniques, including facial expressions, natural gestures, and sign language, which help convey messages. It encourages teachers of deaf learners in Arabic-speaking and developing nations produce and share their videos via RealShow website and electronic and mobile media, which can be used to bridge many gaps.

Reason for nomination

Language

English, Arabic, French

Producer

Nawaat
Mr. Nawaat Asdrubal Riadh

URL

http://nawaat.org/portail/

Description

Founded in 2004, Nawaat is in an independent platform run by Tunisians. It gives voice to all those who want to spread their civic commitment. Nawaat receives no public subsidy and is funded by its administrators. Because concepts such as civil society, decentralisation, peaceful conflict management and accountability cannot be implemented without citizen involvements, Nawaat focuses on the many ways that can encourage citizens to participate. The common thread among Nowata’s contents is how public institutions conduct public affairs and manage public resources in order to guarantee the realization of human rights in a democratic regime that allows accountability. Furthermore, the most noticeable aspect shared by all these themes under Ben Ali's regime was expressed through the fight against censorship, corruption and human rights violations. At the same time and during all this years, Nawaat also focused on how to help Tunisians (and others) to circumvent censorship by giving technical advises and tools.

Reason for nomination

Language

Arabic

Producer

Egypt ICT Trust Fund
Ms. Marwa Elnokrashy

URL

http://erada.kenanaonline.com/

Description

According to 2007 WHO statistics, approximately 11% of Egyptian population, around 9.4 million, suffer from some kind of disability/impairment. People with disabilities may be different but they have the same needs as everyone else. Given a helping hand, they can live independently and contribute to society. Accordingly, the specialized portal Erada addresses PWD significant need related to the knowledge and information empowerment for people with disabilities (PWD) in order to ensure their full participation and inclusion at all levels of society. This portal focuses on catering knowledge, needs, and concerns to PWD in all categories (hearing impairment, visual impairment, Physical impairment, mental retardation, autism, Learning Difficulties). It covers important topics such as terms of disabilities, laws & rights, early intervention, genetic disease and more. It also provides a web creation service for community members and partners to create their subsidiary website/portal and publish their content in order to share knowledge and experience with other members.

Reason for nomination

Erada of Kenana online is a free, accessible, comprehensive, user-friendly, knowledge carrier. These are the main characteristics of Kenanaonline.com. Through its 700,000 specialized page published on the internet with top ranks on search engine, 610000 daily visit, and 2200 blogs monthly created, Kenanaonline represent the largest community development portal in Egypt and Arab World. Through using a comprehensive and flexible strategy, the ICT-TF development team managed in building and maintaining a high-value knowledge network depends on collaborative content provisioning by the community members. Such enabling environment supported with highly customized e-services gives power to energetic community participation to be merged in networks and engaging partners, constantly maximizing Arabic content, and increasingly growing towards an integrated information society.