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Taghreedat ((アラビア語:مبادرة تغريدات)) is the largest Arabic crowdsourcing initiative in the MENA region. With a community of over 9,000 Arab translators, editors and writers residing in 35 countries around the world, of which are 20 Arab countries,〔Taghreedat website〕 Taghreedat aims to build an active Arabic digital content creation community that contributes directly and significantly to increasing the quality and quantity of Arabic content on the web, through crowdsourcing to increase Arab users' contribution to enriching Arabic content on the web through original content projects, and projects geared towards localization and Arabization. Starting on May 31, 2011, on Twitter, as a call to action to increase the quality and quantity of Arabic digital content on Twitter via the hashtag #letstweetinarabic, Taghreedat has created a community of Arabic digital content enthusiasts from all parts of the Arab world, through its verified account on Twitter: @Taghreedat, which has over 142,000 followers.〔Taghreedat on Twitter〕 Taghreedat has collaborated with a number of international and regional stakeholders, among which are San Francisco-based organizations and companies including: Twitter, the Wikimedia Foundation, Storify, Easy Chirp, Meedan, Khan Academy, Google, WhatsApp, Easy Chirp, Coursera and Amara in addition to New York-based TED, Smartling and Foursquare in addition to Europe-based GameLoft and Abu Dhabi based twofour54 – the supporting organization which currently funds this initiative. == Recognition and impact == * On October 4, 2012, The Dubai School of Government released its latest report, including a case study on Taghreedat as a model for social entrepreneurship in the Arab region, citing Taghreedat's impact on applying crowdsourcing to increase the quality and quantity of Arabic digital content. The report was released by The Governance and Innovation Program (GIP) at the Dubai School of Government, in partnership with SAP MENA, and included a regional eight country survey to measure perceptions on the impact of social media usage on economic empowerment, employment and entrepreneurship in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. * On August 29, 2012, Taghreedat was selected as one of the Middle East's Top 25 Tech Initiatives leading the technology innovation scene in the Middle East region, in a list that has been created by ''The Wall Street Journal''s Neil Parmar and published in Washington, D.C.-based Al Monitor. Taghreedat was ranked 12th in the list, making it the only nonprofit initiative to have been included in the list, which also highlighted included various startups as part of its rankings.〔Top 25 Tech Stars in the Middle East Region - Al Monitor Original, By Neil Parmar〕 * Previously, on March 9, 2012, during the Presidential Official Statements at the ITU's Connect Arab States Summit held in Doha, Qatar, the Egyptian Presidential Statement, delivered by Egypt's Minister of Telecommunications singled out Taghreedat has one of the region's strongest efforts to enrich Arabic digital content. * In a recent Klout study, dated April 2012, Taghreedat's Twitter account rounded in the top 5 most influential non-personal Arab Twitter accounts, in terms of reach, volume of interactions, retweets, mentions and overall user network. * Taghreedat's projects have been covered in a number of international and regional media outlets, including: CNN, The Next Web, ''The Wall Street Journal'', BBC World, France 24, CNBC ArabiYa, Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, Sky News Arabia, Chicago Tribune, Khaleej Times, Screen Daily, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Arabian Business, ''The National'', Al Youm Al Sabe' and others. * Taghreedat has also participated in a number of international and regional events to showcase its community-driven projects including Wikimania 2012 in Washington, D.C.,〔Al Arabiya News: Taghreedat To Offer Arab Tweeps Their Own Search Engine〕 and TEDGlobal in Idinbrugh, United Kingdom. The initiative also participated in the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, where it held and spoke at a panel discussion on crowdsourcing with three of its key international stakeholders: Twitter, Storify and Meedan. Taghreedat also participated at the ITU Telecom World 2012, which was held in Dubai,UAE. The initiative spoke at a panel discussion on Big Data and how crowdsourcing fits into the ever increasing debate on data ownership. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Taghreedat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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