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Lebanese NGOs - Online

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A three-layer mashup consisting of: A map of LebanonPoints plotted where NGOs are working and what types of projects they’re engaged in (with links to their websites/contact people)Relevant and available social/infrastructure indicators such as literacy and illness rates, electricity outages, and internet access points.



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Each of us in our own endeavors is trying to leverage the social/participatory media space for the common good in Lebanon, a concept which only tenuously exists. We have identified NGOs as a particular area of interest because they occupy a social space that crosses confessional and political lines. The next step is to catalog their activity in a way that can:

  1. be useful for our future projects
  2. demonstrate the potential benefits for NGOs working in common areas or on common causes to work together
  3. make it easier for volunteers and donors to get involved
  4. make their services and goods more accessible to those who need them.


Mashup Idea
by David Munir Nabti, Jessica Dheere, Patricia Nabti and Hala Makarem.

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By some counts, there are more than 18,000 civil society nonprofits/NGOs registered in Lebanon, but only a fraction of them are actually operational. Information about where they’re working, their funders, their successes, and their grantees is often hard to find. The lack of organization of and access to this data not only reinforces rampant corruption but also makes it difficult for donors and volunteers to find partners to whom they are willing to contribute funds or time. In addition, there is a lot of overlap between NGOs. Our mashup would help identify areas of redundancy and neglect, render them visually, and become a call to action to distribute resources accordingly. There is nothing like this in Lebanon, or perhaps the world? If we were able to realise our concept, it could become a model for other countries in similar circumstances and/or link into a global network.

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