Funding and Research Partnerships
Meedan’s funding partners include
- The Coexist Foundation
- Taghreedat
- Cisco Systems Foundation
- Qatar Foundation International
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
- Flora Family Foundation
- Nathan Cummings Foundation
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Meedan has received more than $3.2 million in research and development support from IBM to further the development of its Arabic-English Automated Translation technology and to support Meedan’s ongoing work on “a social media sharing platform bridging the Arabic and English speaking communities”. Other technology partners include, dotSUB, GeoCommons, MakerLab, Carrot Search, and Rylander Design.
In addition, Meedan has a number of social network partners:
- Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS)
- C-100 World Economic Forum
- Cairo University
- IEARN (International Education and Resources Network)
- Human Rights Watch
- New York University, Center for Dialogues: Islamic World – the West – U.S.
- Search for Common Ground: Partners in Humanity News Service
- Teachers Without Borders
- Soliya
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