"We Will Not Pay" campaign called on residents of Al Ismalia, via the social network pages "Facebook", to organize a protest on Saturday night; objecting on cutting off electricity for long hours every day. Socialist Popular Alliance Party and youth of Kefaya Movement participate in the campaign. The campaign demands a stated schedule for the districts' consumption of electricity, also a stated schedule of the times and the periods of cutting off electricity, as it shouldn't suddenly cut off electricity. It also bearing the executive apparatus the responsibility of collecting rubbish, not the responsibility of citizens, and the details of the contracts with cleaning companies should be published. The campaign said the ongoing negligence of these demands will lead to not paying the bills of electricity and cleaning. More»

Language is considered the true mirror of the state of any nation, as it flourishes along with the cultural and civil progress of people, but when communities deteriorate culturally and socially, the reliance on language becomes less important and even totally vanishes. Arabic language ​​is one of the richest languages in terms of vocabulary, as one single word can give many meanings, and in terms of content, Arabic language have been able to be the brigade of civilization around the world from China and to Andalusia, as people of these countries have given a prosperous civilization to the world, which lighted the road at the same time when Europe was living the Dark Ages. More»

The World Bank launched a regional initiative to improve broadband connectivity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by bringing utilities’ fiber optic networks into broadband use. The World Bank’s broadband connectivity initiative will study the potential for developing regional broadband backbone networks in MENA and prepare the ground for new investments, and it will use a new approach that leverages already-deployed infrastructure from other utilities, such as electricity, transport or oil and gas. The study is expected to tackle the main bottlenecks to broadband connectivity in the region, in particular providing redundancy (extra capacity) to existing international connectivity and opening alternative backbone networks in domestic markets.  Doyle Gallegos -Practice Leader, Connectivity Infrastructure of World Bank- said “Worldwide, broadband is becoming an essential infrastructure for innovation, economic growth, and competitiveness,” and he added “This World Bank initiative will help increase MENA countries’ capacity to cope with the tremendous predicted increase in broadband traffic and to compete in the 21st century’s global market.” More»

“I’m the president” Campaign is carried out by young independent youth belonging to different political affiliations, and it is supported by self-efforts, as it does not aim at any financial benefits. The main objective of this campaign is making a leader from you, and how you get prepared to be a president who is aware with the general concepts of governing and administration, through the following steps:  * Identifying all of potential candidates for the presidency neutrally, and away from the misleading media, through holding meetings with these candidates, and giving the young people the opportunity to ask them questions they are wandering about, and then recording and broadcasting the videos of these meetings on the internet, because the target is (You have to know before you choose) * Organizing awareness developing and political cadres preparation courses for youth. * Organizing human development courses. * Holding public conferences to identify the presidential candidates’ programs. * Holding debates between candidates in the public conferences. * Organizing training courses of elections’ observation for the purpose of preparing observers. More»

2015 is a social movement using art and creativity to raise awareness, change perceptions and take actions towards alleviating poverty in the Arab region. The movement comes as a reaction to the promise made in the year 2000 at the United Nations Millennium Summit by nearly 200 world leaders who pledged to eradicate extreme poverty by the year 2015. Citing 2015's website: "In 2012, three billion people still live in poverty. In the Arab region millions of our people remain hungry, poor, and vulnerable, with too little access to opportunities. World leaders are failing". It is worth mentioning that 2015 is a project by El Sayed Foundation.The El Sayed Foundation is a not-for-profit organization established in the United Kingdom. More»

The Egyptian Medical Students’ Association Assiut is going to hold Fight Pneumonia & Save A Child Campaign on Monday, March 5th.   A meeting would be held prior to this campaign on Sunday, 4th March, 1.00 pm at the Hall of students' Activities to clarify and explain more about the message and the aim of the project and discuss ideas for the campaign.   It is worth mentioning that The Egyptian Medical Students’ Association, EMSA for short, is a legally recognized Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), registered at the Egyptian Ministry of Social Affairs under license number 7866 - Cairo. It is the sole legal organization representing Egyptian medical students both inside and outside the Egyptian territories. More»

Activists on social networking websites have called Egyptian fellows to switch their mobile phones off on Saturday 10 March 2012 in objection to the stamp tax imposed lately by all three mobile services operating companies. Activists have selected the time of closing the telephones from 12 midnight to 11:30 pm on March 10th. Mentioned in the initiative's statement was: “They deducted 51 piaster form our credit and named it (stamp tax), so we are going to switch our phones off and name the initiative (Please Ask Me, Thank You) –named after the please call me service provided by three companies-. People have to shut their phone off in support to the Egyptian citizen who will not accept his theft anymore.” More»

Inta Feen is the first Arab mobile location-based social networking game that enables users to socialize and compete with their friends based on their location. The application enables users to keep in touch with their friends wherever they go by sharing their location. Users could also share their opinions, thoughts and experiences, recommend things to try and warn of things to avoid. Another feature of the application is that users could compete to be the Mayor (3omda) by checking-in a place more than any other user and enjoy the 3omda status and open a world of benefits. Inta Feen cooperates with several business partners to offer coupons and prizes to users. Download Inta Feen and check-in your favorite places and have a chance to earn freebies and discounts. More»

“HarassMap” has launched a campaign under the name of “Catch Harasser” that aims to spread social awareness against sexual harassment all over Egypt. This campaign calls volunteers to gather and spread awareness in their streets by explaining to audience what sexual harassment is in its different forms. The campaign targets all classes of people, whether the doormen, storeowners, neighbors or anyone present in the street. More»

Members of the parliament are the legitimate representatives of people. They should act as role models within the parliament regarding respecting Egyptian rules and regulations, especially the parliament’s regulation. Due to the repeated scenes of interruptions and loud voices by the members, along with the frequent request to sit down and follow the regulations by the parliament’s president Dr. Saad El Katatny, and with the non compliance to rules, people decided to remind members, objectively, with the importance of complying to manners of communication and to follow the parliament’s regulations so that they become an idol to the Egyptian street. More»