September 11, 2012

Конкурс альянса цивилизаций ООН на лучшую межкультурную инновацию

Альянс Цивилизаций ООН и автоконцерн BMW проводят конкурс на лучшую межкультурную инновацию, содействующую диалогу людей разного культурного происхождения (сферы миграции и интеграции…

August 31, 2012

Amara’s Wiki-Style Translation Platform Enables Global Growth Of Education Startups

Amara, a nonprofit crowd source subtitling platform that engages volunteers from around the world to translate online videos, has been adopted by two leading online education providers, Coursera and Khan Academy, to make academic videos globally accessible. Launched in 2010, Amara has already added more than 200,000 subtitles in 100 different languages to online videos…  

June 26, 2012

Rio+20 : Sylvia Bongo Ondimba au « Sommet des Femmes leaders »

La Première Dame du Gabon, Sylvia Bongo Ondimba, a récemment pris une part active au « Sommet des Femmes Leaders », organisé par l’ONU Femmes, en marge du Sommet des Nations Unies sur le développement durable, Rio+20, que venait d’abriter Rio de Janeiro au Brésil. Indique une source officielle…

June 25, 2012

Tourism of Destruction, Tourism of Construction: Two Trips to the Holy Land

Tourism is a business involving a billion people a year meeting several other billion people whose lives they profoundly affect economically and socially. The question for the future is whether that effect is going to be negative or positive, peaceful or destructive…

May 24, 2012

Regent Park group honoured by UN

By Erin Criger A  Regent Park group has been honoured by the United Nations for its youth-mentorship work. However, there’s a twist to Youth Empowering Parents (YEP)’s methods: instead of having adults mentor kids, children are teaching their own parents valuable skills like computer literacy and English…

May 15, 2012

“Europe on the Ground” wins 2012 European Charlemagne Youth Prize

“Europe on the Ground”, a Greek youth media project, was awarded first prize at the 2012 Charlemagne Youth Prize ceremony on 15 May in Aachen. Second prize went to Europe Meets School, an exchange programme for Erasmus students (Czech Republic) and the winner of the third prize was the Cycle Me Home project, a documentary […]

May 10, 2012

Mozilla & Knight Foundation Invest $1M In Crowdsourced Translation Startup Amara

By Ryan Lawler Let’s say you’re a video publisher who wants all the world to have access to your content… But translating videos into multiple languages is time-consuming and expensive — that is, unless you’ve got a team of volunteers to do it for you. One of the most efficient way to tackle the problem […]

May 5, 2012

Encountering Peace: The Palestinian challenge

By Gershon Baskin Something must be done, and quickly, to save the two-state solution. We are nearing the end of the road and soon there will be no one between the river and the sea who actually believes that it will be possible to partition the land into two states. There is no peace process, […]

April 3, 2012

Translate This: a Campaign in Every Language

By Hari Sreenivasan Do you read or write a language other than English? If so, we need your help. In partnership with the Participatory Culture Foundation through the Universal Subtitles project, the all-volunteer PBS NewsHour captioning and translation team is up and running…

March 12, 2012

Holy Land tours a new tool in peacebuilding

By Aziz Abu Sarah and Talia Salem Shira Nesher, an Israeli, stands alongside Fakhira Halloun, a Palestinian, as Nesher tells her story about life in a conflict zone to a group of American university students who are hanging onto her every word. “My family members are Holocaust survivors, and as an Israeli I grew up […]