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Comment on Mansoura training workshop: On improving citizen media in Egypt’s governorates by Mikel Maron

Mikel Maron — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:23:21 +0000

Nice, getting the thoughts flowing for our citizen mapping and media forums later in the year.

Comment on Mansoura training workshop: On improving citizen media in Egypt’s governorates by Mansoura training workshop: On improving citizen media in Egypt's … | فيس اونلاين

Fri, 04 May 2012 16:21:44 +0000

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Comment on Translating Tweets from the Arab Spring: Towards a Translation Workbench for Twitter by It’s all Greek to me! Localization is a bumpy road – The Ushahidi Blog

Tue, 01 May 2012 18:53:18 +0000

[...] Meedan’s experience shows the complexity and opportunity of real-time translation. George Weyman, of Meedan, submitted a Knight Challenge called the Translation Desk. [...]

Comment on Checkdesk: A new approach to fact-checking citizen media of the Arab Spring by ميدان يفوز بجائزة مسابقة الابتكار الإخباري 2012 من المعهد العالمي للصحافة « Meedan.org

Tue, 01 May 2012 18:30:56 +0000

[...] Checkdesk من ميدان، هو منصة تسهل التعاون الصحفي لتغطية المعلومات التي يتم مشاركتها عبر الإعلام الجديد في الشرق الأوسط، وقد تم تسميتها كأحد الفائزين الأربعة عشر في مسابقة الابتكار الإخباري 2012 من المعهد العالمي للصحافة. ستساعد الجائزة مصممي ومطوري ميدان على مواجهة أصعب وأعقد المشاكل على الشبكات الاجتماعية وهي: كيف يمكن للفرق الصحفية أن تحسن قدرتها على التحقق من صحة الأخبار الطارئة في الشرق الأوسط بالاعتماد على تقارير صحافة المواطن. [...]

Comment on @Gr33nData on training citizen journalists in Mahalla by Meedan wins International Press Instiitute News Innovation Contest 2012 « Meedan.org

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:20:29 +0000

[...] City University in the UK and a stellar set of citizen journalists, including Ramy Raoof, Tarek Amr and Lilian Wagdy) and formal media [...]

Comment on Ramy Raoof trains Alexandria’s citizen journalists on verifying citizen media by Meedan wins International Press Instiitute News Innovation Contest 2012 « Meedan.org

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:18:18 +0000

[...] Atef from Birmingham City University in the UK and a stellar set of citizen journalists, including Ramy Raoof, Tarek Amr and Lilian Wagdy) and formal media [...]

Comment on Checkdesk: A new approach to fact-checking citizen media of the Arab Spring by Meedan wins International Press Instiitute News Innovation Contest 2012 « Meedan.org

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:18:01 +0000

[...] News Innovation Contest 2012 Posted on Apr 27 2012 by Ed. Filed under: Uncategorized Meedan Checkdesk, a platform facilitating collaborative journalism for Middle East new media, has been named as one [...]

Comment on Translating Tweets from the Arab Spring: Towards a Translation Workbench for Twitter by Update on Cojiro platform development | Global Voices Innovation Awards

Update on Cojiro platform development | Global Voices Innovation Awards — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:51:39 +0000

[...] has recently submitted a proposal to the Knight news challenge to build what they call a “Translation Workbench for Twitter“. The discussion about how to appropriately display translations of tweets has a lot in [...]

Comment on Cairo journalist and Twitter supremo Lilian Wagdy trains budding citizen reporters at Tahrir Lounge by Ramy Raoof trains Alexandria’s citizen journalists on verifying citizen media « Meedan.org

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:31:29 +0000

[...] and train them on verification techniques for content on the web. Other workshops took place in Cairo with Lilian Wagdy and in Mahalla with Tarek [...]

Comment on Red Hat calling @Pilgrim: Bing can’t do it alone by Quora

Quora — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:30:00 +0000

What is the best online Arabic to English translator?…

The engine Meedan.org uses for its sites is trained on more informal domain content – this said, the various Arabic dialects are quite distinct and right now there is no engine (including Meedan’s) that yields satisfactory results across most user gen…