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DigiActive training for women’s associations

Trainers Mary (standing) and Zineb (front seat on the right) with association members in Rabat.

On Tuesday, DigiActive conducted a training for Moroccan women’s rights associations.  The training, organized by the international human rights organization Global Rights, sought to give these associations new tools for their lobbying campaign in support of a domestic violence law in Morocco.   

The half-day training covered digital strategy for using blogs, video,  social networks, and mobile phones in campaining and was lead by DigiActive co-founder Mary Joyce and a local Moroccan trainer, Lalla Zineb El Alaoui, who led a presentation on how to use Facebook for activism.  

The training was giving using simultaneous English-Arabic translation, thus the head sets.  Mary presented in English, and Zineb in Arabic, with Powerpoint slides in French (Morocco’s second language). At DigiActive, we roll international.