The 10 winners of the D-Jil project
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D-JilAt the end of the two hackathons, a panel of experts and young people drawn from the Mediterranean region selected the 10 projects to be awarded a grants to aid their development:
- ECHOES : formation, production et militantisme pour un journalisme citoyen, Algérie
- She's got something to say, Algérie
- Welad ElBalad Stadium, Égypte
- Satirical media, Jordanie / Royaume Uni
- You22, Liban
- 9rayti.com - WebTV d'orientation universitaire et professionnelle, Maroc
- Openchabab, Maroc
- Independent Media: Raising Youth Voices, Palestine
- Ahkifree La télé, Tunisie
These 10 winners were chosen from 250 digital projects that were received.
30 projects were pre-selected to participate in a hackathon in Casablanca and Beirut in July. These events served as a full-scale test of the viability of the projects. The teams, made up of journalists, web developers, graphic designers and designers, were pitched against each other in a fun competition to produce and build on the best presentation of their project.
Support was provided to the teams by media, web, communication and entrepreneurial professionals.
A second call for projects will take place before the end of 2018 with a view to selecting 10 new projects.
D-Jil is run by a consortium of partners with the following members: CFI (France), Fondation Samir Kassir (Lebanon), IREX Europe (France), FMAS (Morocco) et Leaders of Tomorrow (Jordan) and is co-financed by Union européenne.
