eNGO Workshop in Karachi, Pakistan on 10th May 2012

In yet another successful venture of eNGO Program, Digital Empowerment Foundation with support from Public Interest Registry organized “eNGO Network of Pakistan” workshop in Karachi, Pakistan on 10^th May 2012. The workshop was held in PILER (Pakistan Institute for Labour Education & Research) auditorium and hosted 23 delegates participating from 19 organisations in and around Karachi.

The programme is implemented in the country by Bytes for All in partnership with Reclaim Your Space (RYSe), a Pakistan based collective of campaigns and social enterprises and it serves the primary purpose to enable women to reclaim their right to public and social spaces. Bytes for All has stepped forward to put together the previous year’s outreach from its various primary campaigns and major collaborations such as Take Back the Tech, Digital Security and Internet Rights, Feminist Tech Exchange (FTX) , Open e-Governance and Pul-E-Jawan to make an amalgamated platform. The eNGO Net Pakistan is a collective brainchild to inter-relate activism, engagements and outreach with a target to achieve comprehensive development and goals of the grassroot organisations within the network.

The initiative will provide offline and online tech support to the member organisation of eNGO Net Pakistan with a prime focus on integrated development.  The workshop has opened up a new threshold of opportunities for many grassroot NGOs in the country. The organisations who have signed up for the eNGO Net Pakistan will be facilitated with range of facilities such as  free .ORG domain names and website set-up, trainings for maintaining their websites and host of other services. The participant organisations referred different organisations which could be benefitted by the eNGO programmes in Pakistan.

The following is the list of participants in the eNGO Workshop, Pakistan:

• Yousaf Ajab — Human Prosperity Organisation (HPO), Kalat, Balochistan;
• Zahoor Baloch — as above;
• Mukesh Kumar — Sandesh, Hyderabad, Sindh;
• M. Ali Mir — Aghaaz, Mirpur, Pakistan-administered Kashmir;
• M. Ahsan — Seed Pakistan — Rawalpindi, Punjab;
• Salman Khan — Seed Pakistan — Rawalpindi, Punjab;
• Caesar Ali Khan — OPDS — Buner, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa;
• Qamar Shahzad Ruben — Faces, Pakistan — Hyderabad, Sindh;
• Fakhra Hassan — Drag It To The Top! — Lahore, Punjab;
• Saba Ismail — Aware Girls — Peshawar, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa;
• Adnan Hussain — The Awakening — Saidu Sharif, Swat, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa;
• Dawood Shah — CRY — Peshawar, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa;
• Syed Mohd Gillani — Change Foundation — Multan, Punjab;
• Farhat Firdous — Evolve — Karachi;
• Sana Kazmi — Zindagi Trust — Karachi;
• Nobahar — PILER — Karachi;
• Khurram Ali — National Students Federation — Karachi;
• Mir Askari Abbas — as above;
• M. Sauman — Academy for Research & Training (ART) — Karachi;
• Fatima Zaidi — as above;
• Sana Robab — Youth & Women Development — Karachi;
• Sanaa Hasan — War Against Rape (WAR) — Karachi;
• Dr Bari Awan — CEDF — Karachi.