AltCity and the Dialogue Cafe Association (DCA) are proud to announce an official partnership to establish a Dialogue Cafe in Beirut, Lebanon.
The Dialogue Cafe in AltCity will link Beirut with cities around the world to co-host a wide variety of events, meetings, and activities using the latest in video-conference technology, enabling city-to-city and multi-city “face-to-face” events. The DCA currently includes active Dialogue Cafe locations in Lisbon (Portugal), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and Amsterdam (The Netherlands), with others opening soon in London (UK), Lille (France), Ramallah (Palestine), Paris (France), Wroclaw (Poland), Belgrade (Serbia), Sao Paulo (Brazil), and now Beirut (Lebanon).
Once the technology is installed, AltCity and other community partners will organize and hold a program of innovative and globally-linked events. Together, AltCity and the Dialogue Cafe Association will bring people from various backgrounds and countries into face-to-face conversation so that they can share experiences, learn from each other, and work together to creative positive change.
AltCity will focus on developing Dialogue Cafe activities with many community partners and around various themes, including entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, innovation, media, technology, social change, culture and arts, and more. The platform will also be available for use by a wide range of community organizations and companies.
More information about the program details and launch dates will be available soon. Please sign up for the AltCity Newsletter (at www.altcity.me) to receive updates about this and other AltCity activities.
ABOUT DIALOGUE CAFE ASSOCIATION (DCA)
The purpose of the Association is to enable face-to-face conversations between diverse groups of people from around the world so that they can share experiences, learn from each other and work together to make the world a better place. The objective of these conversations and collaborations is to promote and advance social, educational and cultural objectives on a global basis, in particular, in the areas of intercultural dialogue, social innovation and entrepreneurship, culture and creativity and learning and skills. The DCA was established as a partnership between the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and Cisco Systems, and currently has a wide range of key partners, including the Social Innovation Exchange, the Anna Lindh Foundation, and the Calouse Gulbenkian Foundation. The DCA is based in Lisbon, Portugal.
>> Find more info about Dialogue Cafe Association: www.dialoguecafe.org // twitter.com/DialogueCafe
ABOUT ALTCITY
AltCity is a social venture based in Beirut, Lebanon, working to radically expand access to the tools, resources, and spaces that enable innovative, creative, high impact, and socially-relevant media and entrepreneurial initiatives. AltCity believes in a world where all people — regardless of their location, financial resources, or passport — have the opportunity to make and do amazing things, challenge themselves, and improve the world we live in. AltCity will provide a variety of spaces (newsroom/media cafe, event space, meeting rooms, offices, co-working spaces, library, etc.), supports (business supports, technical supports), and activities (workshops, presentation/demo events, cultural events, competitions, collaborative work sessions, etc.) to support creative, high impact, innovative, and social impact ventures in Lebanon (and beyond), and to foster “communities of interest” in key areas. AltCity is a community-based initiative, so while it will organize some of those activities, it aims to engage, support, and collaborate with many of the fantastic groups and people in Lebanon and globally. AltCity also serves as a physical location to help people connect across geographic barriers, including developing a Global Dialogue Platform, of which this partnership with Dialogue Cafe is a key element.
>> Find more info about AltCity: www.altcity.me // www.twitter.com/altcityme
