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Wednesday, October 5

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شهد العام ٢٠١١ مظاهرات وثورات أفضت إلى إنتخابات حرة في عدة بلدان عربية. 

وكانت تلك ولادة أول موجة من الدول الديمقراطية العربية.
عقب الإنتخابات بدء بعض النشطاء والسياسيين والأحزاب في هذه البلدان بالمطالبة بخطوات تعزز التعاون بينها. وقد كانت مطالب فتح الحدود وإلغاء الجمارك واستحداث عملة موحدة وحرية حركة العمالة من أبرز تلك المطالبات.
واجتمع وزراء الخارجية العرب في تلك البلدان عام ٢٠١٢ نزولا عند رغبة  وضغوط مجموعات الناشطين المختلفة. وخرج الوزراء بإعلان يدعم التعاون بين الديمقراطيات العربية.
لحق اجتماع وزراء الخارجية إجتماع لقادة الدول العربية الديمقراطية في القاهرة أعلنوا فيه عن ولادة (الإتحاد العربي الحر) وهو إتحاد عربي جديد يقوم على مبادئ التعاون الاقتصادي والثقافي والسياسي وفتح الحدود بين الدول الأعضاء.
أعد الإتحاد ميثاق يحفظ لكل دولة سيادتها واستقلاليتها وبنفس الوقت يحقق توافقا عربيا وحدويا ويحدد إطار تعاون على المستوى الإقتصادي والاجتماعي والثقافي وسياسة الحدود المفتوحة بين الديمقراطيات 
الجديدة.
المبادئ العامة
يقوم الإتحاد العربي الحر على مبادئ الحرية والديمقراطية والإستقلالية والتقبل لأطياف المجتمعات العربية المختلفة دون تمييز أو تفضيل لشعب على آخر أو إقليم على آخر. ويرحب الإتحاد بعضوية أية دولة عربية يحكمها نظام ديمقراطي يرضى عنه الشعب.
وقد نص البيان الذي صدر عن الإتحاد في أكتوبر ٢٠١٣ على مبادئ كانت الشعوب تطالب فيها السنة الفائتة. والمقتطافات التالية هي من بنوده:
١- تعزيز الديمقراطية في دول الإتحاد عن طريق إطلاق نظام إنتخابي موحد للمجالس البرلمانية يقوم على مبدأ توسيع رقعة التمثيل الشعبي.
٢- حرية التنقل بين بلدان الإتحاد دون الحاجة الى تأشيرات سفر.
٣- إيجاد عملة موحدة.
٤- توحيد التعرفات العامة ونظام الضرائب.
٥- إحترام الحرية الفردية في التعبير العام سواء أكان سياسيا أم اجتماعيا أم اقتصاديا.
٦- تشجيع المشاركة الشعبية في الحياة المدنية والسياسية وخلق أماكن تجمعات حيوية في المدن الرئيسية لتكون منابر حرة للشعب.
تفاصيل المسابقة
يحتاج الإتحاد الآن إلى هوية بصرية مؤسسية.
لغاية ترسيخ فكر ومبادئ الإتحاد في وجدان الناس وإضافة رمز بصري جديد، قرر الإتحاد تطوير إستراتيجية كاملة للهوية البصرية المؤسسية له. تأتي أهمية هذه الهوية في توفير وسائل الاتصال الأساسية بما في ذلك العلم والشعار والألوان، ومواد العرض لإستخدامها في مجالات عدة من مؤتمرات الإتحاد إلى ترويج الثقافة والسياحة في الدول الأعضاء. لقد قام مكتب الاتصال بإعداد موجز لمهمة تصميم الهوية البصرية المؤسسية للإتحاد ليجد الفريق التصميمي المناسب.
هل أنت المصمم الذي يجب أن يستعين به الإتحاد؟
يدعوكم موقع تصميم عربي إلى الاستجابة لهذا التحدي الذي يهدف إلى تشجيع التفكير بقضايا العالم العربي الجديدة من منطلق تصميمي وإبداعي.
يمكنك المساعدة في تطوير هوية فعالة وعلامة جديدة وحيوية تتصل بالعالم العربي عن طريق إعداد متطلبات التصميم المذكورة في الموجز التصميمي على النحو التالي:
متطلبات اجبارية
١-  تصميم علم الاتحاد بحيث يعبر عن هوية ومبادئ شعوب الدول الاعضاء. أطلق العنان لخيالك وارنا هذا العلم يرفرف على سارية في شوارع أحد العواصم للدول المشاركة – صورة مونتاج.
٢- تصميم شعار حفل إطلاق الاتحاد والحملة الاعلانية.
٣- عملة موحدة (ورقية ومعدنية) أو طوابع بريدية موحدة.
٤- الصفحة الرئيسية للموقع الالكتروني للاتحاد وتطبيق للهواتف الذكية
متطلبات اختيارية
ابتدأ الاتحاد بالعمل على ثلاثة مشاريع هامة وعليكم كمصممين إختيار واحداً منها على الأقل للعمل عليه (مع المتطلبات العامة المذكورة أعلاه):
١- شعار إتحاد النقل الذي يخدم جميع هذه الدول بباصات وقطارات سريعة  بالاضافة لتطبيقات إستعماله على لوحات الاستعلام عن مواعيد المغادرة والوصول والبطاقات الذكية.
٢- شعار المهرجان السنوي الثقافي.
٣- كتيب ترويج سياحي.
يترك المجال للمشاركين لإقتراح أية مواد أخرى لتقديمها للمشاركة.
تعليمات التقديم

- هذه المسابقة مفتوحة للمصممين الأفراد ولمكاتب الدعايات والاعلان ولدور التصميم من كافة أنحاء العالم.
- يحقق للمشاركين أن يتقدموا بأكثر من تصميم على أن يلبوا جميع المتطلبات.
- تقدم التصاميم المشاركة على شكل ملف PDF واحد لا يتجاوز حجمه MB 20. إذا اقتضت الحاجة إلى إرسال ملف أكبر من هذا الحجم، فيجب إرساله على أجزاء.
- ورقة تشرح الفلسفة التصميمية في ٥٠٠ كلمة كحد اقصى.
- ترسل المشاركات على العنوان التالي challenge [at] redesignarabia 
[dot] com
الموعد النهائي للتقديم
 ٥ أكتوبر٢٠١١
التحكيم
سيتم الاعلان لاحقاً عن لجنة التحكيم. سيتم عرض المشاركات على موقعنا الالكتروني وسيفتح المجال للتعليق عليها. ستوخذ نوعية التعليقات الدائرة حاول المشاركات بعين الاعتبار في التحكيم. لن يكون هنالك تصويت على المشاركات.
وسيحكم على المشاركات دون التعريف باصحابها خلال عملية التحكيم. ينبغي عدم ذكر إسم الفرد أو المجموعات المشاركة إلى على صفحة الغلاف ويجب أن ترفق بشكل منفصل عن الطلب.
حقوق الطبع والنشر
سيتم عرض المشاركات الفائزة ومشاركات أخرى منتقاة في أحد المساحات والمعارض الفنية في العاصمة الاردنية، عمان.
يحتفظ تصميم عربي بحقه في نشر جميع المشاركات على الموقع الالكتروني وفي أية وسائل إعلامية أخرى.
 كما يحتفظ تصميم العرب بحق إقامة معرض حول المشاركات المقدمة



In 2011, revolutions and protests led to free elections in several Arab countries. It was the birth of the first wave of new Arab democracies.
After the elections, activists, politicians and political parties in these countries started demanding various measures of cooperation between the new Arab democracies. The opening of their borders, the cancellation of import tariffs between them, a unified currency and the freedom of labor movement where some of the strongest demands put forward.
In 2012, the demands intensified and cross border cooperation between activists emerged. Responding to that, the foreign ministers of the new Arab democracies held a meeting in Cairo to discuss implementing such requests. They came out with a declaration supporting closer cooperation between their countries.
Then, the leaders of the Arab democracies met on the 2nd of March 2013, and announced the birth of the Free Arab Union, a new cooperation body of democratic Arab states based on the principles of freedom, economic and cultural cooperation and open borders.
The Free Arab Union charter was announced. While it kept the independence and sovereignty of its members intact, it aimed at achieving a unified framework for political, economic, social and cultural cooperation among the newly formed democracies.


General Principles
The Free Arab Union is established on the premise of freedom, democracy and independence. It accepts the diversity of Arab societies without discrimination or favoritism for one society over another, or one region over another.
The Union welcomes the membership of any Arab country governed by democratic rule that has gained popular acceptance.
The Union issued the following statement on October 2013, which reflects the principles the citizens were calling for the previous year. The following represents a summary of its main points:
1- Strengthening democracy among members of the Union by launching a unified electoral system for Arab parliaments that expands popular representation of various societal groups.
2- Freedom of movement between member countries without visa requirements.
3- Creation of a single currency.
4- Unification of the general tariffs and taxes.
5- Respect of the right of expression whether on political, social or economic subjects.
6- Encouragement of popular participation in civic and political life and the establishment of vital public spaces in major cities for free public expression.


Challenge Details
The Free Arab Union now needs a visual identity.
In order to embody the principles and philosophy of the Union, it has been decided that a full branding strategy will be developed. The brand will provide the principle communication tools for the Union, including the flag, logo, color schemes, presentation materials for conferences and festivals, and for the promotion of culture and tourism in its member countries. The communications office at the Union has already prepared a design brief and is now scouting for the perfect team to participate in the competition.
Are you the designer they should turn to?
Redesign Arabia invites you to participate in a competition that aims to encourage thinking about the Arab World’s contemporary issues from a design and creative perspective.
You can help develop a vibrant, dynamic and relevant new brand for the Arab World by preparing the design requirements in the following brief:


Mandatory Requirements
1. Design the Union’s flag so that it represents the identity and principles that member countries have adopted. (Set your imagination free, and show us the flag in a photo montage flying on a pole in one of the capitals of a member country)
2. Design the logo of the Union as seen at the launching ceremony and its advertisement campaign.
3. Design its unified currency (paper and coin) or unified postal stamps.
4. Design the homepage of the website of the Union and a smartphone e-government application.


Optional Requirements
The Union has started to work on three major projects. As a designer, you have to choose one of them at least to work on (in addition to the mandatory requirements above).
1. Logo of the Regional Transport Authority (which serves all of the countries by rapid bus and train services) in addition to applications of the logo on information billboards at terminals and smart payment cards.
2. Logo of the annual cultural festival.
3. A tourism handbook.
The floor is open for participants to suggest any other design items they would like to submit.


Submission Instructions
- This competition is open to individual designers, advertisement agencies, media and design firms from all around the world.
- Participants can send multiple entries as long as each fulfills all requirements.
- All entries should be submitted in a single PDF file with a maximum size of 20MB. If the need arises to send an entry with a larger file size, you can split it into multiple files.
- A 500-word (maximum) concept paper must also be attached.
- All entries should be sent to challenge [at] redesignarabia [dot] com




Deadline
October 5 2011


Jury
The jury will be announced at a later stage. Entries will be shared on our website and open to comments. The quality of discussion generated around them will be taken into consideration by the jury. There will be no voting system on entries.
All entries will be judged anonymously. The name of participant(s) should be mentioned on a separate cover letter only.


Printing & Publishing Rights
Winning and select entries will be exhibited in one of the gallery spaces in Amman, Jordan.
Redesign Arabia reserves its right to publish all entries on its website and any other media outlet. Redesign Arabia also reserves its right to exhibit entries.



Saturday, December 4

Social Entrepreneurship > Females

SHE Entrepreneur


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Are you a woman with a vision? Do you want to contribute to sustainable change? Apply to She Entrepreneurs, a new program by the Swedish Institute, and become part of a unique network of women social entrepreneurs. She Entrepreneurs aims to offer inspiration and knowledge as well as build partnerships between Sweden and the countries involved in new innovative social entrepreneurship ventures.  

We are looking for visionary women who have the skills to create, organize and run innovative social projects, aiming at improving the state of society.

With She Entrepreneurs the SI aims to lay a foundation for dialogue, mutual understanding and knowledge sharing among young women social entrepreneurs from the Middle East, North Africa and Sweden.

 

What is She Entrepreneurs?

She Entrepreneurs is a new program by the Swedish Institute which addresses young women social entrepreneurs in selected countries in the Middle East and North Africa: Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Morocco, West Bank-Gaza, Yemen and Iran. The Swedish Institute aims to give the participants innovative tools for sustainable change while seeking to create a network of women change makers in the region. Focused on driven young women, She Entrepreneurs will offer inspiration and knowledge as well as build networks between Sweden and the countries involved.
During five days in Stockholm, the participants will present their project plans for My Idea. This will be a social project brought by each participant to the program, which will then be developed during the course of the program. Equipped with new social media tools, the participants will present the next step in their different projects at the end of the Stockholm week. The goal is to implement the project locally after the program.


During the program, the participants will be matched with Swedish women. These mentors work actively as social entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs. The mentorship will provide inspiration for the continuous work with each participant’s My Idea project for one year. She Entrepreneurs will also enable the creation of new, strong networks. A mentorship start-up meeting will take place during the Stockholm week. The following mentorship meetings will be held using digital and social media platforms, such as Skype and Ning.
The participants will meet Swedish organizations and inspirational people working as social entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs. The whole participant group will be involved in intense and inspirational work, as well as knowledge sharing within the group and with external parties.

What is a social entrepreneur?

"A social entrepreneur is a person who identifies a social problem/need and uses innovative and entrepreneurial skills and principles to create, organize, and run activities with the purpose of being part of the solution to the social problem/need. While traditional entrepreneurs only measure the results in terms of economic profit for the company itself, social entrepreneurs also put strong focus on measuring their results in relation to the effects on society as a whole"

How does it work?

She Entrepreneurs is designed to provide the tools needed to start or develop a social project for sustainable change in the participant's country or region during and after the program. The participant will become part of an exclusive network that will boost creativity and support her personal and professional development.

And then what?

After six months the group will meet for a two-day follow-up. A status report for each social project will be presented.  

Accommodation, food and travel

All costs related to accommodation, food and transport during She Entrepreneurs are covered by the Swedish Institute. The Swedish Institute will also arrange and pay for your air travel to and from Sweden, but participants are themselves responsible for costs related to transport within their own countries.
During the program in Stockholm, the Swedish Institute covers your food expenses as well as the costs of all arranged activities.

Insurance

During the program in Sweden all participants will be insured against acute illness and accident through the Swedish State Group Insurance and personal insurance by the Swedish Legal, Financial and Administrative Service Agency (Kammarkollegiet)

Visa

Selected participants are responsible for obtaining their visas in good time before departure to Sweden and other relevant countries.
The program will be held in English and proficient command of English, written and spoken, is therefore a requirement.

 

The Swedish Institute is cooperating with:


Novare Accelerate- Developing Young Professionals

Novare Accelerate is a consultancy company delivering innovative and business driven developing programs for Young Professionals. Novare is a part of Investor AB group in Sweden with an extensive global business network. 
Novare Accelerate delivers external development programs such as Mentorships Programs for future leaders, Business Skills Programs, Global Emerging Talent Programs within companies and innovative Business Camps where talents from different organizations work with innovative cases to present new solutions on other organizations business opportunities. 
Read more about Novare Accelerate here.

Springtime

Springtime is a public relations and communications firm. They provide counseling and hands-on assistance to clients, helping them seize opportunities, resolve issues and develop their business. Springtime believes in personal influence as a key to success in communication.
Springtime was named Sweden's best PR firm in 2002, 2004 and 2006 in Regi' (the leading enterprise in the implementation of conceptual studies and analysis) annual client survey.
Read more about Sprintime here
http://www.si.se/sheentrepreneurs