Letter from Virtual Activism/Center for Knowledge Society
to our readers

Mengos website has completed its mission. As the first Arab NGO network, MENGOS is the product of Virtual Activism/ TheCenter for Knowledge Society. It was unique in the information it provided and in its comprehensive database. Many sites sprung up and followed suit, and we are happy with this outcome. We would like to thank our supporters and everyone who has emailed us and visited us and provided us with invaluable information about their work and activities.

The Center has pioneered the following projects:

• Technology training of nonprofit organizations, journalists, judges and civil society in general in the Arab World as well as online training throughout the world.
• Introducing blogging to the Middle East through our web-works project [and our training workshops]. The first civil society blog in the Arab Middle East was a blog that we created for a Palestinian cultural center in 2000.
• A multi-lingual site for nonprofit organizations with a database of existing NGO
• Mengospedia, the first wiki for nonprofit organizations in the Arab World [this is an on-going project and you may join the wiki any time and begin posting your news and information.

MENGOS will not close down. We have decied to change its focus. Even though it will still cater to the needs of nonprofit organizations in the Middle East, and in particular human rights organizations, the site is taking a dramatic change in its presentation and subject matter. We feel the need to change because of the duplication of materials on multiple sites, which is also a duplication of unnecessary tme and effort. As our focus changes, we will continue to pioneer new projects for the benefit of nonprofit organizations and civil society.

Our new launch date will be September 1st. We will be sending emails to our subscribers with the re-launch of the site. If you wish to be notified or if you wish to join our newsletter, please subscribe to our mailing list below.

We hope that our new project will be as exciting and as beneficial as our portal has always been with input from you all.

Thank you.

M. Tadros
Executive Director

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