We live in an era of technology and innovation. These two fields are ever growing and very often interrelated. The World Summit Awards (WSA) is an initiative that sheds light on the digital innovations that have positive societal impacts. Every year, WSA rewards 40 initiatives from all over the world in 8 diverse categories.

“Tabshoura already has a digitized Kindergarten program,” Fahed explained, and children using it learned twice as much as children that didn’t. LAL wants to teach children that are often left to themselves necessary competencies that will help them in life and in learning such as analysis, creativity, and autonomy.

Our team made up of Patrick Habib and Andrea Fahed pitched the EdTech solution Tabshoura Tiny Thinkers in a Box at MIT Solve in New York on the 22nd of September!
MIT Solve is an MIT Initiative that fosters tech companies looking to pilot, scale and implement their tech solutions for leading societal issues.

For the 3rd year now, a team from Lebanese Alternative Learning attended the Mobile Learning Week at UNESCO – Paris, France from the 4th to the 8th of March 2019. LAL’s delegation composed of Nagi Ghorra, Patrick Habib and Yorgui Beylouni, were among 1500 participants from 130 countries.

As a Gulmakai champion, Nayla participated in the 5 days training in Dubai.
22 champions from Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, Brazil, Turkey and Lebanon participated in this training provided by INTRAC, a not-for-profit UK based association that provide training, consultancy and research to help civil society organizations and networks be more effective.