Shameless plug for Meedan: <a href="http://www.meedan.net">www.meedan.net</a> <div><br></div><div>Designed to "facilitate a dialogue" between English and Arabic speaking countries on world events, current affairs, etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cool site--uses a pretty good machine translation engine that's bootstrapped by taking feedback and translation suggestions from users (facebook filed a patent for this... fucking bullshit)</div><div>
<br></div><div>Crowd-sourced translation building translation memories to bootstrap machine translation FTW<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Ceren Ercen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ceren@magnesium.net">ceren@magnesium.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">the kind that has people to support it, design it, promote it locally in<br>
those communities, has its own hardware, host it somewhere they can<br>
reach it at with multiple routes, given the crappiness of internets<br>
there, as well as failover locations, has extensive backups given its<br>
vunerability as a political target, maybe building out power and a<br>
"local" set of machines or minicolo there so it's not over satlink<br>
only.... probably needs local access cybercafe centers, too, since few<br>
people have home network connections and cybercafes are still in common<br>
use...<br>
<br>
See Talia Internet's work, for example.<br>
<br>
- Ceren, who would happily go work out in the sandbox again.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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<br>
Christie Dudley wrote:<br>
> What I find boggling is that they're giving it away in *minimum* chunks<br>
> of $500,000 each. What kind of wiki costs $500K?!<br>
><br>
> Christie<br>
> ---<br>
> Pigs can fly given sufficient thrust.<br>
> - RFC 1925<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Al Billings <<a href="mailto:albill@openbuddha.com">albill@openbuddha.com</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:albill@openbuddha.com">albill@openbuddha.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> From Boing Boing today<br>
> (<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/0UV7rlJBCmU/state-dept-offers-25.html" target="_blank">http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/0UV7rlJBCmU/state-dept-offers-25.html</a><br>
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<div class="im">> ):<br>
><br>
> Henry Farrell sez:<br>
> The US Department of State wants hackers to help build civil society<br>
> in the Middle East and Africa. They're offering up to $2.5 million in<br>
> grants for pilot projects that use wikis, blogs and social networking<br>
> platforms to connect and educate young people and improve civic<br>
> participation.<br>
> .<br>
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