WISSENSCHAFTLICHEN KOORDINATOR FÜR FORSCHUNGSDATENMANAGEMENT
FORUM TRANSREGIONALE STUDIEN / MECAM

Ahmad Gharbeia has a background of information technology and business, and years of expertise in knowledge organisation, digital preservation, and archives. He worked with organizations and collectives all over the MENA region, and has been active in the free-software movement.
In 2011 contributed to establishing ADEF in Cairo, which is a non-proft organization which supports initiatives that produce open knowledge and promotes creative uses of information technology using freesoftware, and which has been organizing The Arab Digital Expression Camps since 2008 in Egypt, Tunis and Lebanon.