AltCity and Soliya are proud to announce an official partnership to promote cross-cultural dialogue and virtual “youth exchanges”.
Using video-conferencing and other online technologies, AltCity and Soliya will work together to bring young people from various backgrounds, cultures, and countries into face-to-face conversations about topics as varied as media, technology, social change, diversity, culture or the arts. As one of Soliya’s current 90 fellows around the world, AltCity trainer Julnar Doueik will participate in online trainings on conflict transformation, facilitation, video-reporting, and social media for cross-cultural understanding. Fellows will also meet for five days of intensive, offline workshops.
During this twelve-month period, Soliya is providing Julnar and AltCity with the technical hardware, software and training needed to participate in Soliya’s cross-cultural activities.
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ABOUT SOLIYA:
Soliya is an international non-profit organization with offices in New York and Cairo. In a time when media plays an increasingly powerful role in shaping peoples’ viewpoints on political issues, Soliya provides students with the opportunity, skills, and tools to shape and articulate their own viewpoints on some of the most pressing global issues facing their generation. By using new technologies, Soliya aims to facilitate dialogue between students from diverse backgrounds across the globe.
Soliya’s programs use videoconferencing and new media to connect young people from around the world and engage them in conversations about pressing global issues using proven conflict resolution methodologies.
>> Find more info about Soliya: http://www.soliya.net http://twitter.com/soliya
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.
>> Find more info about AltCity: http://www.altcity.me http://www.twitter.com/altcityme
