Change Your World – Agenda

Revolutionary women: influential women from Egypt and across the Middle East and North Africa who have used social or digital media to be heard during the Arab Spring

Facilitator, Alyse Nelson, US, Vital Voices
Maria Al Masani, Yemen, blogger and human rights activist, founder of Yemen Rights Monitor
Asma Mahfouz, Egypt, Nobel prize nominee, founder of April 6 movement
Manal al Sharif, KSA, blogger, women’s rights activist, leader of right to drive campaign in KSA
Maryam al‐Khawaja, Bahrain, human rights activist and the current head of foreign relations office for the Bahrain Center for Human Rights
Danya B Mohammed, Libya

After the Revolution: E‐lections and e‐governance. Women had key roles in the uprisings across the MENA region; how are women leading in the post‐revolutionary world? How are technology/the Internet/media being used as platforms for launching campaigns, creating consensus, becoming political leaders, and supporting good governance? What advice/strategies? would women who have run give to those waiting in the wings

Facilitator: Erin Vilardi, USA, former Vice President of Program and Communications at The White House Project (TWHP), a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to advance U.S. women’s leadership. While at TWHP, she developed Vote, Run, Lead ‐‐ the largest national political training program readying women for public office and civic life ‐‐ training over 12,000 women since 2004
Dalia Ziada, Egypt, candidate for Parliament, Egyptian rights activist, blogger, laureate of Anna Lindh Euro‐Mediterranean Journalist Award, Tufts University Presidential Award, honored by Newsweek as one of 150 most influential women in the world, selected by Daily Beast as one of world’s 17 bravest bloggers, and named by Time magazine as rights champion. http://daliaziada.blogspot.com/p/about‐me.html
Esraa Abdel Fatah, Egypt, Nobel Peace prize nominee, political activist, potential Democratic Front Party candidate for Egyptian parliament

What is the role and importance of journalism when it comes to social change? What is the line between journalist and activist; should there be a line, and is it more easily blurred with citizen journalism? What responsibilities do citizen journalists have, and to whom? Are there agreed‐upon journalistic standards and guidelines for the blogosphere/Twittersphere

Facilitator: Ann Hoffman, Vital Voices, Director of Online Communications, Global Partnerships Lara Ayoub, Jordan, digital media pioneer and portal manager, Al Ghad and Al‐Waseet
Hosam El Sokkari, Head of Audience, Yahoo! Maktoob – formerly of the BBC
Lina Attalah, Managing Editor, Al Masry Al Youm
Chris Barr, VP, Yahoo! Global Editorial
Lamees Dhaif, Bahrain, Bahraini journalist active in the Bahraini resistance campaign
Hebah Abdalla, Egypt/US, Senior Producer, Al Jazeera English
Shatha Al‐Harazi, Yemen, blogger and reporter, _The Yemen Times

Talking Back! Facilitated workshop/listening session to elicit ideas for tools, platforms, technology and media that would better facilitate entrepreneurship, political leadership, media and human rights/social justice activism