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Meedan seeks your support to help us build better channels for communication and knowledge sharing across languages and cultures in today's emerging global society.

If you also seek to forge interactions for a more informed, more tolerant global society or if you are passionate about improving understanding between the Arab-Islamic world and the West, we will be delighted to hear from you.

In supporting us, you will be joining a host of the most prestigious foundations investing in our collective future:

We will welcome any pledge to general project funding. Another option is to support the area of Meedan that most meets your programs and interests. Meedan is designed with a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to support modular applications (or services) that can stand alone and be flexibly combined. Here are the modules that you can support:

Meedan Module 1: Building and deploying Meedan's Arabic-English Translation Marketplace
What it will help achieve: Improving translation capacity and building translation community in the Arabic-English language pair, enabling increased knowledge sharing and collaboration between the Arab-Islamic World and the West

Meedan Module 2: Developing the functionality of Meedan's Dialogue and Networking platform, Meedan.net, for easier sharing of translations and media between users and networks on and off the site
What it will help achieve: Connecting knowledge creation across languages and increasing opportunities for dialogue and knowledge-sharing between Arabic and Anglophone communities

Meedan Module 3: Building next generation Cross-language Search, Aggregation and Clustering tools
What it will help achieve: Improving access to knowledge, sources of information and linkages between them across language

Meedan Module 4: Building out Meedan's Crowdsourced Searchable Database of Information about Media Sources in the MENA region and the West
What it will help achieve: Improving critical thinking between language communities and increasing awareness of the contextual factors which shape the sources we rely on for news and information

Meedan Module 5: Developing SwiftRiver - a Toolkit for Annotating and Sorting Emerging Feeds of Information (such as blogs, twitter feeds, news reports) on an event or crisis
What it will help achieve: Providing early warning of cultural crises and misunderstanding and the sources of their transmission

Meedan Module 8: Building Technology for Cross-language Inter-faith Dialogue with core partner the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme at Cambridge University, UK
What it will help achieve: Fostering public cross-language inter-faith interaction and encounter between religious scholars and faith leaders in Christianity, Judaism and Islam

Meedan Module 7: Establishing a Meedan collaboratory within the Middle East
What it will help achieve: Fostering an open source development community with knowledge and network sharing between the Middle East and the West

For more information on any of the above please write to info@meedan.net or contact us at @meedan on Twitter.

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Meedan is a 501(c)3 Non Profit Organization. Financial contributions to Meedan are tax deductible.