5 Things I learnt the hard way setting-up AltCity.me in Beirut
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I've been asked by my friend and colleague @CEAnnette to speak to her MA Media & Creative Enterprise students about my experience co-founding AltCity in Beirut, Lebanon. Here are my slides!
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- 1. Five things I learnt the hard way setting up AltCity.me in Beirut Dr. Dima Saber BCMCR BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 2. Here’s my suggestion for today: I want to tell you about my experience setting up one of the first media/tech start-up support spaces in Beirut. I want to tell you about the things I was really good at, and the things I really s***** at. Then I’d like to think with you of how all this connects to a wider discussion on social entrepreneurship, gender disparity issues in the Arab region, conflict and social change. And I hope some part of this will inspire you, in some way. Oh, and I think Annette rocks, but that’s a different discussion :) BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 3. Basically this is how it all started… BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 4. I f y o u ’ r e unhappy with media, ma k e your own media BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 5. A y o u t h - r u n m o n t h l y newspaper I s s u e 0 , Nov 2009 BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 6. BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 7. I t las ted one year BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 8. actually it lasted as long as the funding lasted… BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 9. So perhaps two words on context… BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 10. The political context www.flickr.com/photos/syriafreedom BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 11. The tech infrastructure Survey administered by the MBRSG’s Governance and Innovation Program targeting residents of 22 Arab countries. The survey fielding was conducted between March and April 2014 with respondents numbered at 3000 | www.mbrsg.ae BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 12. Unequal access Unequal skills The digital divide is not a digital problem. Rather, i t i s the digi tal manifestation of offline political, social & economic inequality. BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 13. Meanwhile in Lebanon… BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 14. and, of course… BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 15. Just so I get to do this… myself BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 16. BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 17. AltCity in 2011 BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 18. BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 19. It involved a lot of this… BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 20. and a whole lot of this… BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 21. I n a d d i t i o n t o s ome n e c e s s a r y reconciliation with this … digitalpopmarketing.com BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 22. this… www.psclipper.com BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 23. & these… BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 24. AltCity today BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 25. BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 26. BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 27. BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 28. 5 things I learnt the hard way BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 29. #1 ♡$ BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 30. #2 If you want something done, you gotta do it yourself. If it’s something you don’t know how to do, you gotta learn. BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 31. #3 Scratch #2. If you don't learn to delegate and to trust your team you might lose your mind, and end up at s o m e r e s e a r c h c e n t r e i n Birmingham. BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 32. #4 Choose your battles. The earlier you accept that you’ll have to make compromises anyway, the better your chances to get to choose when and how that happens. BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 33. #5 Have fun doing whatever you’re doing. Otherwise, the hard work just isn’t worth it :) BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 34. ♡research I’m here BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 35. • 8 partners in 5 Arab countries (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine & Jordan) • 2 5 0 0 + c i t i z e n journalists trained in media literacy & fact-checking tools • 7 C h e c k d e s k platforms successfully launched BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 36. AltCity is my home BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 37. & I know I want to set-‐ up a Media & Design Research Ins@tute in Beirut next. BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA
- 38. Thanks for listening those of you who have :) dima.saber@bcu.ac.uk @dimalb BCMCR | December 2014 @dimalb | CC | BY-NC-SA