Cairo 4-8-2010: The 4^th Arab Digital Expression Camps ended July 29 and the organizing team bid farewell to 69 campers aged 12 to 15 who came from 8 Arab countries.

Cairo - The Arab Digital Expression Foundation wrapped up its second Training of Trainers' workshop with participants from seven Arab countries.

Cairo – The Arab Digital Expression Foundation wrapped up its second Training of Trainers' workshop with participants from seven Arab countries.

The Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF) is organizing a Training of Trainers’ workshop for young professional Arab artists and techies aged 20 to 30 in the use of open source for the purpose of expression and knowledge sharing, paralleled with exposure to soft skills via training sketches based on experiential learning methodology. The ToT will gather 20 Arab filmmakers, musicians, graphic designers, and Webies from 14-18^th of May 2010 in Cairo, Egypt.

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This article was taken from the January issue of Wired UK magazine.

Since it started its activties in 2007, ADEF has trained 158 youth aged 11 to 16 from eight different Arab countries in various forms of digital expression in cinema, sound and music, graphic design, web design, animation, sports, arts and crafts and web 2.0 within a summer camp model. It also has trained 68 Arab trainers (aged 20 to 30) from Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, Sudan and Syria in digital arts and various training methodologies for the purpose of expression. Young professionals are trained in open source software in the different audio-visual media and design and participate in enriching discussions over online sharing and collaboration and the roles of individuals and groups in this emerging worldwide trend that is proving to have tremendous empowering impact.

Cairo 13-07-2009 – The Arab Digital Expression Foundation launched its training of training workshop which includes 26 trainers from Egypt, Tunis, Morocco, Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon which continues until July 18.