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Updated! Since Nerro asked. Here is my take on http://www.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=1149794 While I think it is nice that the business community is excited about contributing I have some concerns about the format. 1. As far as I can tell, it is a privately set up fund. I am yet to hear any commentary from the transitional government in...

The Economics of Life

My TEDx day-view 🙂 I am indebted to the organising team for their passion and the attendees at the BA for making my day in my city by the sea unforgettable. Your individual feedback was heart warming and extremely touching. For those interested in the actual slides, they are downloadable here: The Economics of Life - Inji Amr...

Economic Awareness Videos

Ever since I'd seen the Crisis of Credit awareness video & I have been obsessing about & dreaming of doing a series of similar videos in Arabic explaining economic concepts to the non-economists & making the newspaper headlines relevant to the average citizen. I've been in the search for a cooperative & collaborative cartoonist for...

The Million Dollar Question

So the twitter timeline yesterday and my budget awareness session the day before were filled with one question. Where do the Suez Canal revenues go? They don't appear anywhere on the budget. So I took the question to the Ministry of Finance. Their responses are as follows: Suez canal revenues are balance of payments revenues,...

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To whom it may concern, I'm giving an economic awareness session on Sunday the 26th at Tahrir Lounge (5 El Bostan Street, Goethe building downtown) at 6 pm. The session is entitled "Egyptian government budget, jargon, values and possible implications". Session is targeting the non-economists and will basically be an introduction to the concept of...

Egypt 2011/2012 Budget

So Zeinboia gives me the heads up about an invitation from the ministry of finance to discuss the new budget proposal with Dr. Samir Radwan and his advisers. Apparently invitation was made to some of the youth coalitions and some of the twitter economists. I had whined on twitter all morning about wanting to attend...

AYB – Association For Sustainable Development

Following the Jan 25th revolution and the explosion of civil society initiatives and social activism, I have taken a personal interest in improving the information availability and transparency in the market regarding operational NGOs and initiatives. To this end, this blog post is the first of a series of posts shedding light on successful existing...

Harassmap

For those of you interested in awareness and gender issues, there is a Harassmap team brainstorming session this Saturday. The organising team is honoured to invite you for a meeting at Rebecca Chiao's place next Saturday 26th of March 2011. The meeting agenda will include discussing marketing strategies for Harassmap, new slogans & new approach...etc....

Karim Abadir on the Egyptian Economy

The article below was written by Professor Karim Abadir. I find his view interesting albeit excessively optimistic. I am sharing the article for your reference as I will soon be posting  a Q&A discussion between me and him about it. Cheers. Any revolution is bound to have an impact on the country where it happens,...

Viral Tourism

Earlier yesterday I heard that Wael Ghonim was taking some of my suggestions here to heart and was working on a viral tourism campaign for Egypt. Meanwhile, not sure who is behind this video, but it is pretty cute, my only objection would be that I hate their choice of background music, highly irrelevant.

Clean versus Green

I am one of those benefiting from the wealth of street painting and cleaning campaigns which have made our neighbourhood pretty and all. Yet I have an alternative suggestion I would like you all to ponder. Rather than investing money, time and effort to painting sidewalks, lets promote a Plant A Tree day in the streets of Egypt. It...

Ramadan Blessings

Hey there. Ramadan is just around the corner. Most of us are still on a summer high. It has been a hot hot hot summer. So every time you get thirsty or go for a class of ice cold beverage, think of those less fortunate and how difficult it is for them all year round....

On Getting Published

OK, those who know me know that it's been on my new year resolution lists and on my bucket lists since 2005. This ambitious dream has met with some interesting setbacks, my inability to write anything longer than 10 pages, fact that I got bored easy, laziness, upon actual completion of something the difficulties of...

Going Local – Facebook Edition

Dear going locallers, Seeing as this idea has grown, it is time to let it go. Since it can't continue to live on this blog and needs a room of it's own. As a first step, we have moved to facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=51852282115 Please check out the group, join it and let us know what you...

Jessyz to the Rescue

The second unveiling this week. Behold, the logo.

Going Local – Take Off Revisited

Given the sheer amount of positive feedback (you all know you rock) here's formalizing the initiative. I give thee "Going Local - Masna3na 2awla Beena" Proposed way this will work: 1) It is an invitation to one and all to start going local (Arab) in all their purchase decisions. 2) On a weekly basis in...

Buying Back Egypt

Ok ladies and gents who have warmed up to my idea of boycotting the boycotts and going local rather than global. I've gone through my daily routine all weekend and have discovered the following: 1) It is extremely difficult to implement this with regard to hygiene products, if any of you are familiar of any...

Buy Egypt

Every other day my phone goes off and it's an sms to the effect of "Boycott Danish goods" or "Show solidarity to Palestine, boycott US products". This has held true for Dutch products and of course products coming from the occupied territories. Now I'm all for it. I'm sure the 3 mobile operators are making...

Ouff, this reminds me of your work

A couple of friends of mine are into making small home movies and editing them with effects and soundtrack and credits and all. They're quite good and are usually very sarcastic with a brilliant hidden message. Came across this in a forward and it reminded me of them. I miss those days.

Breast Cancer

The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on "donating a mammogram" for free (pink window in...