Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2021 Nominee

In-Person Event Signed By Covid-19


Description

Building your own ICTs environment, benefit from all available tools, be more flexible in using your resources.
Upon the global developments of COVID-19, and under the social distancing requirements, The pandemic proved that all challenges could become an opportunity for a new normal.

We can ensure everything will not be perfect at the start. Still, using the concept of open innovation and adapting the idea of participatory culture with flexibility and good planning, the General Women's Union [GWU] was able to develop and launch an extraordinary virtual event, such as:
The first virtual forum between the UAE and Saudi Arabia, "Safe Family, Safe Community." The discussion highlighted the importance of exchanging experiences and expertise in the area of family guidance. It is planning to enable families in both countries to address developments and create a safe and stable community. It comprised four discussion sessions held remotely over two days in an unusual way that the 10,000 attendees and participants feel they are in one place.

Moreover, GWU launched the first virtual market for productive families, "MATJERY," which spares 2000 shoppers the burden of leaving their homes and enables them to buy whatever they want online with the ability to speak directly to shop owners.

Generally speaking, it's essential to adopt ICTs tools to build innovative solutions. We hope our experiences will encourage other entities to create the new normal of making the event via expanding the ICTs Tools.

Project website

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf9Zjuu1kOtU1J3SipzufPnXtJ_3bbP6V


Action lines related to this project
  • AL C4. Capacity building
  • AL C6. Enabling environment
  • AL C8. Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
  • AL C9. Media
  • AL C11. International and regional cooperation 2021
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 3: Good health and well-being
  • Goal 4: Quality education
  • Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
  • Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
  • Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
  • Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals

Coverage
  • International

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2020

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • Older persons
  • Women
  • Indigenous and nomadic peoples
  • People with disabilities
  • The unemployed
  • The poor
  • Migrants
  • Refugees and internally displaced people
  • Remote and rural communities

Replicability

The power to expand the use of ICTs Tools can make it possible for all entities to adopt the new normal of making the event and reach more target and support sign language.


Sustainability

Online events are eco-friendly events, where in-person events require many arrangements, some of them have harm on the environment. Moving in-person events to online can save a lot of budgets. Virtual events more flexible and reusable compared to in-person events.


WSIS values promotion

Achieving sustainable development goals by building your own ICTs environment. Using ICTs efficiently can make you move your in-person event to be an extraordinary online event where anyone can access it from any place in the worlds.


Entity name

General Women's Union (GWU)

Entity country—type

United Arab Emirates Civil Society

Entity website

http://gwu.ae/

Partners

event partnerships