Creating a crowdfunding video is one of the most important components of a crowdfunding campaign. Videos are a great way to engage with an audience and to clearly and creatively convey the message of your campaign. According to Indiegogo, campaigns with a video...
“We’ve been dreaming about being in Jerusalem for the longest time.” This was our third event outside of Ramallah, and part of our endeavor to expand social entrepreneurship beyond Ramallah and the ecosystem’s centricity. And if anything, BUILDx in Jerusalem...
A year after running the crowdfunding campaign, The BuildPalestine team sat down with Raed Hammouri, executive director of Disarming Design for Palestine (DDFP) to discuss the outcomes of the campaign, and the impact it’s made. The campaign DDFP launched the...
Who is Lana Abu Hijleh? Lana refers to herself as a Palestinian before anything, from the village of Der Istia. Abu Hijleh grew up in Nablus, “between the two mountains” as she would describe it. Lana worked in several sectors – including engineering,...
We started Monday’s event with a “term-pong” ice-breaker, where our participants got to know each other by learning some basic tech and digital media marketing terms. Web development, where do you start? Our first speaker, Wajed Afaneh, broke down the web-creation...
