[Wikiar-l] Fellowship opportunity that might be of interest to your communities / computer scientists in the Middle East

Sharing this with the Arabic Wikipedia list in case it's of interest to anyone in your communities -- a fellowship opportunity targeting computer scientists from the Middle East. Apologies for posting in English! Tighe -- Tighe Flanagan Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Melody Kramer &lt;mkramer(a)wikimedia.org&gt; Date: Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 9:18 AM Subject: Sharing a fellowship opportunity that might be of interest to your communities Hi all, A friend from MIT shared this MIT-based fellowship on Twitter this morning: The Refugee Learning Accelerator supports engineers and computer scientists from the Middle East to create technologies for refugee learners. We provides access to learning, mentorship, and funding. The Accelerator is a project of the Media Lab Learning Initiative. The Media Lab is an antidisciplinary research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that designs technologies for people to create a better future http://refugeelearning.media.mit.edu/about/ Deadline to Apply: September 10 Passing along in case it may be of interest to the people and communities you work with. Mel -- Melody Kramer <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:MKramer_(WMF)> Senior Audience Development Manager Read a random featured article from Wikipedia! <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/Featured_articles> mkramer(a)wikimedia.org