نصّ لأجل حملة معسكرات 2014 في إنديغوغو

النص التالي هو النص المقترح لوضعه في حملة indiegogo.com لجمع المال لمعسكرات 2014 مع فيديو ترويجي.

رابط الحملة: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/arab-digital-expression-camps الفيديو: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agPRcIjPwUI

النص العربي

معسكرات التعبير الرقمي العربي تجربة فريدة تتجدد منذ 8 سنوات تجمع في مناسبة سنوية أكثر من 70 فتى و فتاة من أنحاء العالم العربي في رحلة تعلّم و استكشاف الذات و العالم لمدة أسبوعين. خلال مدة المعسكر تتعرّض الفتيات و الفتية في بيئة آمنة إلى طيف واسع من المحفزّات الفنية و يستكشفون أدوات للتعبير و التواصل في إطار منهج متوازن يضم موضوعات تقنية المعلوماتية و التصوير و إنتاج الأفلام و معالجة الأصوات إلى جانب الرياضة؛ المنهج مصمم بحيث يكون لكل مشارك و مشاركة مسار فريد يتوائم مع طبيعتها و اهتماماته و قدراتها و هو في الوقت ذاته خبرة تشاركية بانفتاح على الذات و الآخرين.

مؤسسة التعبير الرقمي العربي (أضِف) تسعى إلى ترسيخ ملكات التعبير الحرّ و التعلّم الذاتي و تتبنى في ممارستها مفاهيم الرخص الحرة و البرمجيات الحرة و العمل التشاركيّ.

من أولويات المعسكرات منذ دورتها الأولى ضمان فرص لفتيان و فتية من دول مختلفة و خلفيات اجتماعية متباينة للانصهار في تجربة تعلّم، لذا فإن نصف عدد المشاركين في المعسكر يشاركون بمنح و أنصاف منح.

استمرار تجربة المعسكرات يتوقف على قدرتنا على تدبير الموارد المالية اللازمة لعملية المعسكر، بما يتضمنه ذلك من بنية تحتية و عتاد و تكاليف سفر و إقامة الفتية و أجور عادلة لواضعي المناهج و المدربين و الميسرين الذين نحرص على تناسب عدهم مع عدد المشاركين من الفتية و الفتيات، و كذلك الطاقم الإداري و مقدمو الرعاية الصحية المصاحبين للمعسكر، و أدوار أخرى عديدة في شبكة متسعة من المهارات و الكفاءات المطلوبة و العمل الدؤوب لأشهر لإخراج هذين الأسبوعين الفريدين.

English text

Short Summary Our key activity and the reason behind our inception of the Arab Digital Expression Foundation is the Arab Digital Expression Camps, a two-week summer program for youth between the ages of 12 and 15. We have been organizing the camps for the last eight years. Eighty participants take part in the camps from across the Arab World, and we try to strike a 50 percent women participation in every camp.

The residential fun-based summer camps act as an experiential venue and ideal environment for learning and self-expression. With a carefully crafted program born out of months of curricula development and a highly trained and engaged team, the results are astounding. ADEF crafts a structure where participants freely explore and experiment with the rich programming in both digital and physical activities that emancipate a sense of mental and physical expression. From video-making, to sound and music production, to creative applications on the web, creative physical activities, art workshops and field trips, the two-week camp quickly evolve into a revolution of expression.

Because of the diversity and intensity of the program and participants, the camps are often a life-changing experience, for both youngsters and trainers. Youngsters and trainers share experiences and bond through both the physical and digital spaces of they create.

Final outputs from the camps are displayed on the web. Other avenues of exhibition are also arranged, through local and regional media and partner organizations.

Today, the camps sit at the heart of the Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF), a leading platform for knowledge production and creation of self-expressive tools and avenues in the region to build and strength engaged communities. Through active and grassroots interventions where technology acts as a key enabler, ADEF builds spaces, fosters environments, enhances skills and develops tools to support individuals and groups working on the ground to develop and strengthen their practices and engagement with society.

What We Need & What You Get With this campaign we are aiming to fund 30 percent of our total cost of running the annual camp. At US$100,000 total cost and at cost of US$1450 per child, we ensure a high value indelible experience for all participating youth on all levels, from the conceptual development of the program to every detail in its execution.

The camp is an opportunity for youth of different socio-economic backgrounds in the Arab World, where tuition is not a must for participation and those who can afford it may also contribute toward the scholarship of others, while those who cannot afford the full tuition, are partially funded. This is why ADEF fundraises for the camps from organizations, companies, communities and individuals.

Part of the camps becoming a meaningful experience is community participation in making it unfold and successfully happen, in belief of the critical value of youth engagement.

We cannot do this without the ongoing support of people like you who believe in building a foundation within our youth for a brighter future.

Even if we don't reach our goal with this campaign, every penny raised will go to ensuring our camps are a success and a true product of community engagement.

The Impact

The growth of our community, its entanglement with a variety of causes and its expansion into different territories of art making, expression and technology creation are key indicators of the camps' success. The camps sets the stage for this community by providing a unique experience of learning, self-discovery, critical thinking and expression, which are missing aspects in most mainstream education across the region.

This is a sample of what has been said about the camps in the media and in academia:

"Free Expression - The Arab Digital Expression Foundation in conversation with Laura Cugusi" http://www.ibraaz.org/interviews/128

“Access to Knowledge in Egypt” – Bloomsbury book release http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/AcctoKnowledgeinEgypt_9781849660792/chapter-ba-9781849660792-chapter-0005.xml;jsessionid=E83814E21E677C20B39A37CF67081B67

“Tweet Freedom” – Wired Magazine UK http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2010/01/features/tweet-freedom.aspx?page=all

"ADEF Prepares Youth for the Digital Age" - Daily News Egypt http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/02/03/adef-prepares-youth-for-the-digital-age/

Other Ways You Can Help Every person can make a difference. Even if you cannot help us to reach our goal through a cash donation, please help us spread the word and check out our website for more information.