A workshop on Cybercrime & Cybersecurity will be held at Nile University, Smart Village on 27th October, 2011 from 9am to 4pm, co-organised by Dr. Mohamed Chawki, associated researcher at the Cedej.

This workshop aims to discuss the relative value of elements of a possible international regulation aimed at preventing the hostile use of information technology. It aims to evaluate the lessons learned from efforts to regulate other dual-use technologies and apply them to the special case of cybercrimes.

Attendance and access to all sessions are totally free.

See pdf file for more information on the program

Lectures in English on urban development of Cairo at the Auditorium of the French Institute of Egypt in Cairo

The various lectures will address the theme of urban development of Cairo, its history and its actuality, and recent urban renewal projects undertaken by the Aga Khan Development Network, the World Monuments Fund and UNESCO.

In partnership with LOCUS Foundation, Environmental Quality International, the Association for the Protection of the Environment, and Umea School of Architecture (Sweden)

Program:

 Tuesday September, 27th

6.00pm "The Historical Development of Islamic Cairo and Its Monuments"

Bernard O´Kane, Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the American University of Cairo

7.30pm “The first and second cycle of urbanization of the Zabaleen Community 1980-2010”

Mounir Neamatalla, Director of Environmental Quality International (EQI)

Suzie Greiss, President of the Association for the Protection of the Environment (APE)

 Sunday October, 2nd

6.00pm “History of the Coptic Church of Alexandria“

Hoda Raoul Anis Khouzam, Historian and Former Responsible of the Scientific Library of the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (IFAO)

 Sunday October, 9th

6.00pm “Greater Cairo’s urban growth problems, housing crisis and garbage collectors communities”

Wael Fahmi, Associate Professor of Urbanism at Helwan University

 Sunday October, 16th

6.00pm ”Conservation of Living Heritage in al-Darb al-Ahmar, Historic Cairo”

Dina Bakhoum, Aga Khan Development Network

7.30pm ”Sustainability is about people! Immediate interventions and the possibility/difficulty of duration”

Carin Smuts, CS Studio Capetown, South Africa