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Nabil Eid


Title and Organization: ICT for Development Rural Areas, ICT4D, Syrian Telecentres &SCHR
Gender and Age: Male, 46
Location: Salamiyeh, Hamah
Country of Residence: Syria Syria
Country of Birth: Syria Syria
Nationalities: Syrian Syrian
Citizenships: Syria Syria
Languages: English , Arabic
Website: Website http://www.caihand.org
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Nabil Eid
Who has a successful record of accomplishment and experience in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Development Rural Community.
He served at the National ICT Training Strategy for Syria, under a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Communication and Technology in Syria and the UNDP / -Syria Office (2004). This included the launch of many Telecentres and ICT programs, such as Rural Knowledge Network “ICT4Dev, Reefnet project ", its impact on scientific and socio-economic development.
Nabil contributed in many national, regional, global initiatives. and currently works at central region Telecentres Director. He is assisting in launching in new initiatives such as writing the project document Rational, proposals, budgets, plan and …etc. He is also chairman of Studies Centre for Handicapped Research (SCHR) organization to help and development all the persons with disabilities to use ICT.
Mr. Eid is also responsible for developing rural communities in Middle East and North Africa (TC-MENA) region and participates in Eastern Africa telecentres movement.
Nabil holds a Master degree in engineering from University of Aleppo, Syria. In addition, holds a depth studies in Information and Communication Technology and computer systems. In addition, he is author to many books & articles in Telecentre Magazine and programs in ICT4D PWD.
Mr. Eid holds several training and workshops certificates from different organization such as UNDP, ESCWA, Telecentre.org, universities, NGOs and Institutes such as Leadership community development certificate.
Nabil Eid is currently Executive Secretary of Knowledge Hubs for Disadvantaged Communities in UN-ESCWA Region.
Personal Details:
Name: Nabil Eid
Gender: (M)
Education: Engineer
State: Salamieh, Hama, Syria
Area of Expertise:
ICT for Development Rural Community.
ICT for Development PWDs
ICT4D Rural (women's, Youth, Children, Persons with Disabilities).
ICT Policy.
ICTs in non-formal education.
Training and capacity building.
Communication details:
Syrian Telecentres Project, Salamieh Telecentre
Cultural center str. Salamieh, Syria
Tel: Office: +963 33832360 , Fax: +963 33832361 , Mobile: +963 955572873
E-mail: nabieid@gmail.com
BRIEF DESCRIPTION.
The use ICT for development rural people as a way to close the digital divide in rural areas. More ideas lunched for development. For example, Telecentres, (E-BAG) Electronic Bag, (MCL) Mobile Computer Lab, … all these global initiatives design to travels to villages, schools or cultural centres and other rural community areas.
Thousands and thousands of rural people (women, children, youth, disabled ) aspire to learn IT skills and get a chance to learn on computer system and for most, it's their first real to explore World Wide Web. The criteria for the selection of the rural areas in communities has to do with where find the largest digital gap. The target rural women, youth and children which no accessing to technology due to the places they live in and their social condition to cover the province in a better way and be able to reach many more rural women and children and allowing to gain training on ICT skills and connect to the internet.
ICTs in rural areas achieve more goals in strengthen the use of ICTs among rural people and build capacities in ICT use and application, and expand activities to reach out to people.
ICTs projects aim to bring technology to even the remote rural areas in community and also to improve competitive advantage by providing the rural people a good opportunities to learn and get job in market places. some basic computer skills will become part of the global digital world.

PROFILE
Background :
- Working in ICTs field for development rural communities.
- Working with Telecentrea project in Syria ( Rural Knowledge Network ) Ministry of communication and technology, Syrian Computer Society and the Syrian trust for Development, Also in Reefnet portal.
www.reefnet.gov.sy , www.salamieh4dev.sy
- Executive secretary of Knowledge Hubs for Disadvantaged Communities in UN- ESCWA
- Team leader of Telecentres in central region in Syria.
- Member of TC-MENA ( Telecentre.org in Middle East and North Africa ) which support by, IDRC, SDC, Microsoft.
- Director of Studies Centre for Handicapped Research " ICT for Development rural persons with disabilities".
www.caihand.org
- Founder of New Social Network Community of ICT for Development Persons with Disabilities. ICT4DPwDs.
http://ict4dpwd.ning.com
- Editor in Arabic Telecentre times newsletter (Telecentre.org and UNDP Egypt).
- Facilitator in Middle East and North Africa (TC-MENA) Region.
Conferences Papers, Workshop and My Participation :
* Speaker on Telecentre.org Launch and Turnover Ceremonies and Related Activities, March 3- 4, 2010, New World Hotel, Makati City, Philippines.
* Workshop with UN-ESCWA region on the Enhancement of the Networking Capacities of Knowledge Hubs, Geza, Egypt, 16-18 Feb 2010.
* Telecentre Leaders’ Forum Middle East and North Africa and Egypt Telecentre Academy Forum in the Smart Village, Cairo, Egypt January 24-26, 2010.
* Workshop on Knowledge networks through ICT access points for disadvantaged Communities. from 11 and 14 January 2010 Khartoum, Sudan.
* The First Arabic Conference on the Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disability.
Benghazi- Libya on Dec.13-15/2009.
* Workshop in 5 days to use of ICT in Intellectual Education School in sultanate Oman.
from 03-10-2009 to 07-10-2009, The workshop and training course supported by information Technology Authority (ITA) and Ministry of Education in Oman.
* Speaker: Workshop Telecentre Leaders Forum Amman, 15 and 16 July 2009, The meeting is jointly organized by The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia ( UN-ESCWA), Telecentre.org, World Links- Arab Region and ICT Trust fund (UNDP/MCIT Egypt) in partnership with Jordanian MCIT.
* Speaker: Conference on Regional Follow-up to the Outcome of the World Summit on the Information Society, Damascus, 16-18 June 2009, ESCWA Region.
* Participant: Workshop on Knowledge Sharing and Networking in the ESCWA region, Which was held in Beirut, Lebanon from 17 to 19 December 2008.
* Participant: TLF MENA –Egypt, Cairo 'Networking and knowledge Sharing key for the growth of telecentres in MENA (Egypt, Sudan, Yemen). 19-20 November. Workshop MENA.
* Participant: SUDAN - Khartoum 08-12 June 2008. 5th EATLF conference.
The East African Telecentre leaders Forum (EATLF) telecentre practitioners from Syria, Egypt, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Sudan etc….
* Participant: Malaysia -Kuala Lumpur 07-14Dec 2007. Telecentre Leader’s Forum (TLF) workshop for and about telecentre leaders from around the world. and Third Global Knowledge GKIII.
* Participant: Damascus 03 Dec 2007, Draft a national plan for care and rehabilitation of persons with disabilities and their participation in the development process.
* Participant: Middle East and North Africa Telecentre stakeholders’ Consultation Workshop, Cairo Egypt on December 5 –7,2006 Organized by telecentre.org and ICTDAR.
* Participant: ICTARB project Information & Communication Technology in the Arab Region for Blind on 7th of September 2005.
* Participant: Regional Programme is actively involved in the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis 16-19 November 2005.
* Participant: November 2005: The Information & Communication Technology for Development in Arab Region (ICTDAR), UNDP’s.
* Participant: August 1999: Helping Severe cases of Multiply Handicapped Blind Children to enjoy better life.
* Participant: May 1996: Paper about motor rehabilitation and the use of ICT by new methods. Lebanon, Beirut.
* Participant: September 1994: Use ICT for hearing disability in Arab workshop conference. Syria, Damascus.

Awards 2008 for Syria:
1) Finalist in ACCESS-IT 2009 Awards
www.access-it-events.org/2009_access_it_awards.php
2) e-INDIA Awards 2008 – Telecentre Awards,
Best Government initiative of the year, Ministry of Communications, Syria and the United Nations Development Programme for the Reefnet Project, Syria.
http://www.eindia.net.in/2008/Awards/telecentre/Award_Winner.asp
3 Finalist Stockholm Challenge Award 2008
Project ICTs for Development in Special Needs Education
http://event.stockholmchallenge.se/project/2008/Education/ICTs-Development-Special-Needs-Education
http://event.stockholmchallenge.se/press-release/The-Stockholm-Challenge-Award-2008-announces-145-projects-in-six-categories
4- ICCHP 2008 Award "11th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs 9. – 11. July 2008 University of Linz, Austria
My contribution entitled" Promote the use ICT in SNE" has been accepted for presentation and discussion at the consortium. My paper is one of eleven fine works to be presented at the consortium.
http://www.icchp.org

Groups:
http://www.telecentre.org/group/tcmena
http://www.telecentre.org/group/telecentrefordisabilities
http://www.epractice.eu/en/cases/ict4dev

Membership
1- Member of Telecentre.org
http://www.telecentre.org/profile/NabilEid
2- Member of United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development , UN-Gaid
http://un-gaid.ning.com/profile/NabilEid
2- Member of Digital Divide Network (DDN)
http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/nabileid
3- Member of TakingITGlobal
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4- Member of Telecentre Europe Community Network
http://telecentreeurope.ning.com/profile/NabilEid
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