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Call for Innovation Videos for the GIT Challenge!

4SITE Forum and Hibr are hosting the Global Innovation Tournament (GIT), an initiative of Global Entrepreneurship Week, for the first time in Lebanon! Come join in the fun and the challenge by organizing your team and submitting a video.

Winners will be announced at the 4SITE Forum and sent to the Stanford Technology Ventures Program for the global competition.

Hurry and get started because the mystery challenge has been announced!

Click here for more information about the GIT in Lebanon.

Call for Volunteers and Interns!

Volunteers

RootSpace is soliciting volunteers for the two-day 4SITE Forum in Beirut, Lebanon on Tuesday, November 17^th and Wednesday, November 18^th. We are looking for volunteers to help with set-up, registration, ushering, management of exhibits, facilitation of interactive activities, assistance with technology, and other important tasks to ensure that the conference runs smoothly and on time.

The conference will provide the opportunity for volunteers to meet leading investors, innovators, and entrepreneurs as well as experience various panels and workshops. Volunteers will be provided with breakfast and lunch on both days.

To apply, please contact Olivia at Olivia@4SITEforum.com with a brief description of your background, in particular any volunteer or event experience.

Interns

We are also looking for longer-term interns to work with the 4SITE Forum and RootSpace. Interns would start with assisting with the organization and manangement of the conference, as well as post-conference follow up, and then would have the opportunity to continue to work with upcoming RootSpace projects.

To apply, please contact Olivia at Olivia@4SITEforum with your CV and a brief statement of interest.

Welcome to 4SITE Forum 2009

4SITE Forum is the first interactive conference in the Middle East to promote innovation and entrepreneurship towards sustainable economic development and social impact.

4SITE Forum is an event bringing together over 200 investors, innovators, and entrepreneurs in Lebanon and the Middle East region.

Organized in conjunction with Global Entrepreneurship Week (taking place in November in over 80 countries worldwide), the event will offer innovative and interactive programming including the use of social media, open source and creative commons, and other technological tools. The forum will be composed of two groundbreaking days of participatory panels, workshops, demonstrations, networking, and more!

The event will take place Tuesday, November 17^th and Wednesday, November 18^th at Bayt El-Tabib Conference Center in Beirut, Lebanon. It will be the first event in a series, with future 4SITE Forums taking place around the region.

Some of our distinguished keynote speakers include Joi Ito, the CEO of Creative Commons, John Wilbanks, the CEO of Science Commons, and Rabea Ataya, the CEO of Bayt.com.

Please see the full conference program for all the details.

We encourage you to register now as spaces are limited.

Consistent with 4SITE Forum's open source principles, we are looking for people to collaborate in shaping the conference and take on different parts of the program for a more interactive, collaborative, and interesting event. Request your preferred topics to be brought up during the conference BarCamp style, plan a presentation, or host a blog! Please take a look here to find out how you can contribute.

We would like to thank all our sponsors for their generous support and hope you have a great inSITEful conference!

4SITE Forum is a collaborative effort between RootSpace and Baraka Group. It is sponsored by Cisco Sytems, Bayt.com, our exclusive online recruitment partner, and Maktoob, with additional support from Aramex, Collabora.co.uk, YallaStartup, and Zawya.com, our business community partner.

Global Entrepreneurship Week

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From 16 - 22 November 2009, Global Entrepreneurship Week will connect young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators. Students, educators, entrepreneurs, business leaders, employees, non-profit leaders, government officials and many others will participate in a range of activities, from online to face-to-face, and from large-scale competitions and events to intimate networking gatherings.

Through this initiative, the next generation of entrepreneurs will be inspired and can emerge. In doing so, they will begin to acquire the knowledge, skills and networks needed to grow innovative, sustainable enterprises that have a positive impact on their lives, their families and communities.

For more information on Global Entrepreneurship Week, click here.

RootSpace is the official host of Global Entrepreneurship Week in Lebanon. For more information, click here.

RootSpace

RootSpace, a Lebanon-based NGO, envisions a sustainable knowledge-based economy and society in Lebanon, the West Asia/North Africa (WANA) region, and the world. RS implements strategic projects to promote the soft skills (creative problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration), key concepts (social innovation, social entrepreneurship, sustainable development), hard skills (science, tech, open source development, project management, business development), and structural supports (research, info dissemination, best practices, org/biz support & tools, social venture investment & support) to fuel widespread systemic change for sustainable social and economic development.