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The news from Myanmar and the failings of language access across the board remind us just how vital supporting language access in our technologies is to basic human rights. Here are some draft pr...

https://medium.com/meedan-labs/the-events-in-myanmar-remind-us-that-language-access-in-technology-is-a-human-rights-issue-c414a290bd9f

Notes from our first field deployment of Bridge for messaging apps by An Xiao Mina, Director of Product How do you say “Cool” in Arabic? Now working on Viber, Bridge can route your questio...

https://medium.com/meedan-labs/mobile-translation-for-refugees-81998b036d63

by Abir Kopty and An Xiao Mina As refugees in Europe turn to the internet for news about border crossings, access to resources and other important information, we at Meedan realized there’s ...

https://medium.com/meedan-labs/bridge-for-crisis-a-new-twitter-account-for-refugee-audiences-b4297873e33b

Tablet Social Media by Ian Clark (CC BY 2.0) You don’t need to conduct in-depth research to realize that many media organizations and digital media services recycle a lot of what is being re...

https://medium.com/meedan-labs/arab-social-media-roundup-reflections-and-lessons-learned-9218f6da0ac9

https://www.meedan.com/kickstarter HELP US BOOST UNDERREPRESENTED VOICES IN THE US ELECTIONS. WE’RE TRANSLATING SOCIAL MEDIA FROM SPANISH, ARABIC AND OTHER LANGUAGES! MEEDAN IS PARTNERING WITH...

https://medium.com/meedan-labs/meet-a-bridge-translator-melisa-garcia-aka-mel-the-poet-2b39d3540f27

A photo from RightsCon at Mission bay. Image courtesy Access Now. HERE’S WHAT WE LEARNED ABOUT GLOBAL CONFERENCES AND SOCIAL MEDIA (HINT: IT’S ALL ABOUT ENGAGEMENT) For anyone who’s atte...

https://medium.com/meedan-labs/we-translated-rightscon-to-spanish-and-arabic-46a17e18e7ea

ESPAÑOL ABAJO — العربية أسفل الصفحة We want to make #RightsCon more accessible to Arabic and Spanish speaking communities. Here’s how you can get involved. The Meeda...

https://medium.com/meedan-labs/help-us-translate-rightscon-to-spanish-and-arabic-29c5b9e2ed31

by Mira Nabulsi Translations of social media conversations in Syria around the Geneva 3 conference. Translations can be found here: https://speakbridge.io/medias/embed/Geneva3 As an undergradu...

https://medium.com/meedan-labs/dipping-into-the-internet-as-a-digital-fixer-1f30882f92e

World travel and communications recorded on Twitter, CC BY Eric Fischer > Bridge enables teams to quickly translate public social media > content and add important cultural, soc...

https://medium.com/meedan-labs/join-the-bridge-community-and-help-diversify-social-media-in-the-news-e7c32bd86adc

FROM CLIPBOARDS TO PERISCOPE, CANDIDATES RELY ON THE ELECTORATE TO SPREAD THEIR MESSAGE. CAN TRANSLATION HELP THEM TOO? written with contributions from Melisa Garcia , Tom Trewinnard and Marle...

https://medium.com/meedan-labs/the-disconnect-between-the-digital-spin-room-and-the-digital-sala-f8f99daf7475