ADEF # Digital Expression X Future

Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF) is a non-profit foundation established in 2009 that builds spaces, fosters environments for expression and learning, enhances skills and develops knowledge tools to support and empower teenagers and youth, groups or individuals, working on the ground to strengthen their practices and engagement with society.

VISION: ADEF's vision is to have independent teenagers and youth, individuals and groups, who are active, critical and aware and can express themselves and produce knowledge for the benefit of their society.

MISSION: ADEF's mission is to promote the creative uses of media, art and technology, disseminate the concepts and practices of free culture, and support initiatives that aim to produce free Arabic knowledge using open tools.

PROGRAMS: ADEF organizes a set of programs and projects revolving around the use of open-source technology and the belief in self-expression and knowledge sharing, targeting both practitioners and youngsters. ADEF’s work ranges from policy advocacy to on-the-ground implementation of the values we advocate through creating diverse mechanisms for the practice of these values through various programs including:

The Arab Digital Expression Camps - ADEC

The key activity and the reason behind the inception of ADEF is the Arab Digital Expression Camps - ADEC that sits in the heart of foundation.

ADEC is a two-week summer camp that has been successfully taking place for 14 rounds since 2007, gathering annually 66 male and female youngsters aged between 12 and 15 coming from different socio-economic backgrounds from at least 11 Arab countries, to venture into voyages of self-expression and empowering critical skill-building through art of technology and the culture of open source.