ITvism
Damascus road, Sodeco
Star Tower bldg
Beirut
Lebanon
- Democracy and community development
- Gender
- Human rights
- Media
- Others
- Research
- Youth and education
ITvism as it stands today offers the full range of multimedia creative productions to deliver messages, influence behaviors, and advance social change. This includes strategic media planning, campaign design and execution, web development, graphic design, social media optimization, media relations and outreach, event planning and execution, and related services.
ITvism capitalizes on open-source software and crowdsourcing tools that place powerful, low-cost technologies within the reach of NGOs to support citizen-driven content and the integration of offline and online events.
As general goal, the purpose of ITvism is to promote the use of Information Technology (IT) in the civil society sector and support civic activism through digital platforms.
Wedia : The other face of Facebook (I and II)
Training and coaching of more than 40 CSOs and NGos on the strategic use of social media and online platforms. Citizen journalism and basic graphic design and photography trainings as well. (2 years)
Website for NGOs: Development of ten websites for ten CSOs in lebanon, with training on content development and managment: writing for the web, photography, CMS.
Wikihistory: Piloting a wikimedia project to serve as a crowdsourced modern history book, written by the people. The project is on hold waiting for a proper political environment as well as funds in order to be published, promoted, and started in the right pace. (no official modern history book in lebanon for political reasons)
Kamashtak Campaign (I and II): a mix between offline and online activities were volunteers, paid staff, and the crowds report on violations of traffic law and other civic laws, through social media and the official campaign website. a mix between field work, crowdsourcing, and smart use of smart phones and online media.
One of our main goals is to be actively connected to other CSOs, provide them with our IT and multimedia expertise. Our contribution to the network may vary from ideas and experience exchange to coalitions and partnerships in projects.
We strongly believe in Networking and we have been hearing of ALF and its networks for so long, which indicates that the most needed components of networking is present, which is sustainability.
We consider ourselves w young and nascent CSO and we will definetely benefit if we get involved with like-minded ngos and networks, not to mention establishing a connection with ALF itsef.