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Making information accessible for everyone

Our programs and research initiatives enable communities to build knowledge together — regardless of language, location, or income.

Community impact programs

We partner with independent media and civil society organizations across the Larger World that promote democratic participation, protect public health, and defend human rights.

Learn more about our Larger World impact

Research

Our research team brings academic rigor to Meedan’s programs and tools. We study ways to reduce online harms and bias, improve the linguistic and cultural performance of AI models, and strengthen AI model alignment.

Check out our academic publications

NeurIPS award-winning paper on diverse feedback for LLMs with the University of Oxford

Leveraging generative AI for linguistically diverse classification

Building safer chatbots for public health

In 2024, our programs team supported:

partner organizations

across the Larger World.

2,000+

participants

in capacity-building and training sessions.

Election-related fact-checking coalitions in

countries.

A high-impact network of global partners

We collaborate with more than 100 independent newsrooms and civil society organizations from across the Larger World to maximize the reach of our vision for a more equitable internet. Here are just a few of those partners.