TEDxRamallah
URL: www.tedxramallah.com
TEDxRamallah has a community revolving around the conference, with people interacting, connecting, posting info, discussions, pictures, nominating speakers and sponsors pre/during/post conference.â¨TEDxRamallah’s theme is to showcase inspiring stories of Palestine. Organizers of the conference can use the website to gauge what community needs. Progress of the TEDxRamallah is shown periodically on the website (speakers, sponsors, location, demo’s, etc)
City Of Life Demand Generator
City-of-life Generator is a website enabling individual communities to bring “City of Life” to their own localities. City of Life is the first UAE full feature film for Emirati director Ali Mustafa.
4site Forum - Lebanon
4site Forum - Lebanon is the first interactive conference in the Middle East to promote innovation and entrepreneurship towards sustainable economic development and social impact. 4SITE Forum is an event bringing together over 200 investors, innovators, and entrepreneurs in Lebanon and the Middle East region. 4SITE Forum believes in integrating social media technology such as open source and creative commons in order to create an open, diverse, and innovative space.
Damascus Diaries
URL: http://damascusdiaries.com
Damascus Diaries serves as a publishing venue for stories and photos, based in Damascus, spanning a wide range of topics about the cultural scene, youth, and everyday life. A review section will have reviews of local recipes, books, poems, artwork, plays, videos, TV series, anything that is of interest to lovers of Damascus. The site will also feature published work and ongoing freelance assignments of Rasha Elsass, a renowned journalist living in Damascus.
TEDxDubai
TEDxDubai an independently organized TED event, the first in the MENA region. Visitors can register to attend the event, connect to other TEDsters on the community, use micro-blogging to tweet on the TEDxdubai site and on Twitter and blog about their favorite TED speakers. Organizers can upload videos to their site video library and process event applications online. The site uses the comment feature enabling users to interact and discuss their opinions on the progress of the event planning. The TED USA team can monitor the activities and excitement for the upcoming event.
Cashy
URL: http://www.cashy.me
Cashy is a website dedicated to providing free financial advice for people living in the Arab world, the financial commentary is both contributed by the community and professional industry experts. Advice ranges from the community rating on financial and banking services.
Liquid of Life
Liquid of Life sells “The Air Water” machines that help to provide a water source without the further need of building a large fossil-fueled infrastructure base. The stand-alone units rely solely on electricity. The machines condense water vapor out of the air and purify it providing drinking water. The website features a range of products suitable for residential, office and large scale commercial environments.
Bidayat
Bidayat connects people and organizations working on for profit or non-profit initiatives that offer social and environmental value in the Levant, GCC and Egypt to the social venture eco-system. Bidayat is a platform (virtual & local) for entrepreneurs to gain visibility and connect to resources of funding, mentoring, volunteering, marketing.
