Beirut, Lebanon, 2016

Advocacy campaigns prototyped at this sprint addressed minority rights, sexual harassment, protests, and social justice.

BEIRUT BY THE NUMBERS

Applications
received

142

Nationalities represented

14

Value of pro bono
work donated

$92k

OVERVIEW

After processing an overwhelming number of applications, we selected 12 civil society representatives from six organisations to attend our 2016 Data4Change sprint in Beirut.

The organisations represented issues as diverse as sexual harassment, social protests, drone strikes, attitudes towards refugees, misinformation in Sudan and minority peoples under threat.

Seven trainers and facilitators supported six multidisciplinary teams of 32 designers, developers, data analysts and storytellers. The 2016 cohort were from Egypt, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nigeria, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, Jordan, USA, UK, France, Norway, Yemen, Sudan, and Malaysia.

MEET THE CSOS

The Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights works through litigation, research, data providing and campaigning to protect economic and social rights.

HarassMap is working to engage all of Egyptian society to create an environment that does not tolerate sexual harassment or gender-based violence.

Al-Khatim Adlan Centre for Enlightenment (KACE) conducts research and campaigns on peace, human rights and democratic transformation in Sudan.

Amnesty's Refugees Welcome Index is a global survey of 27,000+ people's perceptions on welcoming refugees into their countries, neighbourhoods and homes.

Support Yemen is a media collective working on transforming society and bringing about a more just world through a social justice lens and a creative platform.