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Amara

Participatory Culture Foundation

Date Awarded: 01/01/12
Amount: $250,000
Grant Period: 01/01/12 to 12/31/12
Focus Area: Journalism & Media Innovation

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Grantee Contact

Nicholas Reville

Boston, MA

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To expand and improve the Universal Subtitles tool for titling and translating video across the Internet

Project Team

Nicholas Reville

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News & Updates

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News Releases

- 5/10/2012
- News Release
Knight Foundation and Mozilla provide $1 million in funding to Amara, pioneer in crowd-sourced video translation

Knight Blog

- 2/4/2013
- Blog Entry
New digital tools for journalists: 10 to learn
- 6/11/2012
- Blog Entry
Matching nonprofits with developers, new platform aims to leverage tech for social good
- 5/10/2012
- Blog Entry
Amara - making Internet video truly global

In The News

- 3/7/2013
- In The News
Babel of video
- 2/6/2013
- In The News
Amara starts offering crowdsourced subtitles for all of your YouTube videos
- 8/29/2012
- In The News
PBS NewsHour’s viewers are translating its videos into 52 languages (and counting)
- 7/15/2012
- In The News
Bye bye Babel: Breaking language barriers online
- 5/10/2012
- In The News
Tech Crunch: Mozilla & Knight Foundation invest $1M in crowdsourced translation startup Amara
- 5/10/2012
- In The News
Knight Foundation and Mozilla invest $1m in crowdsourced video translation project Amara

Multimedia

- 5/10/2012
- Multimedia
Alberto Ibargüen on Amara (with subtitles)