Wamda

Jordan

Content Master: images of the people for the people

Content Master is taking a different tack to other image curators around the world, by being dedicated to serving the Middle East...

the online project Content Master Stock Images

Iran

Crowdsourcing Week Summit Tehran

Global platform Crowdsourcing Week is coming to Iran for the first time in May 20, 2016. Held at the Iran...

CSW summit Speakers Tehran

Lebanon

Crowdsourced interior design startup launches in Lebanon

Smartphones could soon help people decorate their homes and save money at the same time. Simply fill out a short online questionnaire,...

interior design Darwazah Ghassan Abi Fadel

Saudi Arabia

Former Rocket Internet employee launches a Pinterest for travelers

“Rocket Internet has inspired many people to launch their own startups,” says Anirudh Gupta, a former employee...

Crowdsourcing Travel

Crowdsourced tools for startups: a master list

Startups looking for extra resources to help them scale should check out this list of crowdsourced tools for startups, compiled by Tom...

Lean Methodology collaborative economy Expert Advice

Scaling a lean startup in Iraq: how Easy Bites took Erbil by storm

Restaurants and fast food outlets are booming in Kurdistan. According to one official in Erbil, Kurdistan’s capital now boasts close to 5...

Addressing Online delivery Scaling

Maghreb

Is the Arab World ready for a collaborative economy? This Syrian student says yes.

Would you be ready to carpool? Lend your house or your hammer to someone you don’t know? Give a few hours of your time to teach someone? C...

Sharing Economy Hacker Culture Crowdsourcing

Making Humor Profitable: A Look at Egypt's Sarcasm Society

Egyptians are known for their sense of humor, often using sarcasm and irony to describe and get through tough situations. But what if...

Crowdsourcing Egypt Animation

How Entrepreneurs Are Innovating Their Way Out of Traffic

Sometimes the most innovative ideas come from entrepreneurs who are just fed up. Their ability to make people’s lives just a l...

Crowdsourcing Egypt Transportation

Blood Donation Goes Online in Egypt

After struggling to find an acceptable blood donor to save the life of one of his relatives, Hisham Kharma took the problem upon himself...

Crowdsourcing Egypt Health

10 Crowdmaps Bringing Transparency to the Arab World

Ever since Ushahidi launched in Kenya in 2008 to monitor track post-election violence, crowdsourced maps have become a popular method...

Crowdsourcing

5 Innovative Ways to Crowdsource Better Governance

Whenever I hear people in the Arab region complain about the traffic, I tend to laugh. With the exception of Cairo, which has been bestowed...

Advice Crowdsourcing Government

MyMetroTalks Brings Community-Focused Venue Recommendations to Dubai

I was feeling pretty relaxed the other night, channel surfing on my own, but I felt like being outdoors without having to get all dressed...

Crowdsourcing Ratings Sites

Can a Sharing Economy Take Root in the Middle East and Turkey? (Can AirBnB Clones Find Success?)

Increasingly competitive economic conditions and growing social concerns force us to search for new ways of living and connecting with one...

Scaling Crowdsourcing

Weekly Wrap-Up: November 04-08

This week, we set off with the first of our three Mix N' Mentor events. We're really excited as ALL events have completely sold out - and...

Aureos CoE Cards Conferences

Emokhalfa Takes on Cairo’s Traffic with New Violation Reporting App

Fixing Cairo’s traffic problems is not going to happen overnight. But new startup Emokhalfa is taking the problem into their own hands. It c...

Crowdsourcing Egypt Government

Solvermine: The Region’s First Crowdsourced Problem-Solving Platform [Wamda TV]