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Ofok participate in Open Forum in alexanderia Libarary by TIG
Related to country: Egypt

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Ofok participate in Open Forum in alexanderia Libarary by TIG
Related to country: Egypt

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Ofok participate in Open Forum in alexanderia Libarary by TIG
Related to country: Egypt

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Ofok participate in Open Forum in alexanderia Libarary by TIG
Related to country: Egypt

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OFOK ALTanmia NGO
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We are "Ofok Tanmia" ("Development Horizons") , a recognized non-governmental, non-profit organization operating in Egypt, with our Head Office located in Zamalek, Cairo. Since 2005 we have been working in Human development, education, training and recruitment in the field of Information Technology, Management and vocational.


Background

Ofok NGO has become one of the leading developmental organizations since its establishment in the field of Human Development and employment. Ofok NGO is specialized in the development of methods of research, training and development of modern phenomenon in the Arab region as characterized by professionalism, transparency and sophisticated new thinking and a lighthouse for free thinkers and decision makers.



The extension of this role in community development Ofok NGO team believe that hard work and high performance come as a center for research, training and development, which means to contribute to the technological development in various fields and levels. The Center has been established on a commercial basis, non-for-profit to achieve reduction in subscription fees and its activities.

Ofok Educational Partner:
Cisco Networking Academy
http://Cisco.netacad.net
Sun Academic Initiative
https://learningconnection.sun.com/SAI

Ofok global community Partner
Global Youth Action Network
http://orgs.takingitglobal.org/29157
http://www.youthlink.org/gyanv5/memberlist.htm?filter=O

Ofok Initiative Partner:
Ofok Human Development Initiative
Http://www.ofok-ngo.com
Egyptian Education Initiative
http://www.eei.gov.eg
Cyber Peace Initiative
http://www.powerofyouthforpeace.org

Ofok Profile
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=854645075

We launched new initiative OFOK Human Development Initiative

so that we may offer our future students training in advanced technology development and thereby ensure that future Egyptian I.C.T. professionals trained by us will be educated in the most cutting edge information technology available .

March 3, 2008 | 7:14 PM Comments  0 comments

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Digital Academy (Ofok NGO) Best Local Academy
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Background

Digital Academy is an ITE academy since October 2006 working under OFOK for community development NGO. OFOK was established in December 2005 with a mission of community capacity building, career development, and finding job opportunities. It is a self funded NGO working on a self sustainable model and seizing opportunities in the development initiatives taking place in Egypt.

OFOK NGO was established by 15 active members, they are all youth who have a passion for community development and who believe in specialization. Accordingly, they decide to specialize in ICT training especially in the Network domain. With the Egyptian Education Initiative (EEI) and the 1000 ITE academies project, they applied to become and ITE local academy and where qualified in October 2006.

Since they activated Digital Academy till today, in a 9 month period, they achieved the following:
* Recruited 2 other ITE local academies working under OFOK management (SAMA Academy & Ofok Academy) both active from March 2007
* Total number of certified instructors in the 3 academies is: 8
* Total number of labs is: 6
* Total number of graduates students is: 360 (40% of the students are females)
* They helped in the employment of 60% of the graduates
* 15 classes of ITE1 were delivered
* 10 classes of ITE2 were delivered
* Graduated the youngest ITE1 (which were all over the Press in Egypt and gave visibility to the NetAcad)
* Did 4 workshops in several IT educational institutions to recruit students
* Introduced the ITE to be a sponsored training course from the European funded training project in Egypt (IMC) this allowed a lot of people to take the course
* In July 2007, they were qualified as a CCNA academy and with 2 certified CCNA instructors
* Trained other nationalities studying in Egypt among them, 20 Iraqis, 3 Yemeni, 3 Palestinians, 2 Sudanese, 1 Saudi, 1 Iranian and 1 Canadian.

Initiatives that they did:
* Gender initiative (classes for female only)
* Kids initiative (classes only dedicated for kids age from 6 to 16)
* Deaf & mute initiative for 2 people

Projects that they did:
* The E employee project - between (Ofok & Government)
* The E Student project - between (Ofok & Schools)
* The E Citizen (Ofok NGO Team Work)

Digital academy candidate to the Cisco reward because of the following reasons:
* Graduated a large number of students in a short period of time (304 in 9 month) giving that they are an NGO not a governmental institution or a funded NGO
* Opened 6 lab locations in different areas
* Had an impact on the community by employing 60% of the graduates
* Gave visibility to NetAcad through the Youngest graduate

Ofok NGO (DIGITAL ACADEMY) have been operating as a Regional Cisco Networking Academy delivering the
> full range of Cisco programs since June 2006 and we have had great success in this regard. In a short time we have become the most productive of Cisco's 11,000 academies world-wide in terms of number
of students graduated. In this time, we have also graduated the youngest student to be certified in IT Essentials,
Ismail Eissa Mohammed, at age 12 years &
Mohand , at age 9 Years

March 3, 2008 | 7:10 PM Comments  0 comments

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10,000 ICT Scholarship for Kids:
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Background

In coordination with government policy to introduce ICT in schools and the education reform program initiated by the Ministry of Education (MoE), and in recognition of the role of the non-governmental organization. Ofok NGO, which is a non governmental & non for profit organization whose mandate is human recourses development through education, training and employment. Committed to sponsor the training 10 000 students in the primary
education to take the course of IT essentials introduced by Cisco Networking Academy.

This commitment was done in the MoE awards distribution conference in the presence of
H.E. Dr. Ahmed Nazif, Egypt Prime Minister.
This commitment was done by Ofok CEO Mr. Shaarawy Abdel Baky to H.E. Dr. Yousry El Gamal, Minister of Education through a formal commitment letter.


Scope:
Estimated total number of students to benefit from this project is 10 000 students in the primary
education over 1 year distributed all over the Egyptian governorates. In the meantime this project
will help in increasing the competency of school instructors and trainers to promote Cisco
Networking Academy courses as well as help in promoting community development.

Selection of the 10 000 students from the primary education:
The 10 000 students will be selected from a pool of 20 000 students nominated by the MoE and awarded in the Ministries award conference.

March 3, 2008 | 7:05 PM Comments  0 comments

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Scholarship in Ofok & Cyber Peace Movement Initiative
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Ofok & Cisco Contribution

-Training of 100 students on CCNA
-Training of 20 instructors to be CCNA certified instructors

Selection of these students will be based on the following selection criteria:
1.Age between 18 – 25
2.Fair English knowledge
3.IT background (pass an online IT test on Cisco Networking Academy connection)
4- 40% females

Recruitment of these students will be done from the universities egyption government

Ofok Human Development Center
Launch a new program for Student and stuff
SAI-Ofok Center for Human Development may now access the Sun Learning Connection to launching a courses in Open Source and advanced technology

March 3, 2008 | 7:04 PM Comments  0 comments

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Journals and News about OFOK through web site link:
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