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Good Ideas Where They Are Needed Most.
"The greatest threat to extremism
isn't drones firing missiles, but girls
reading books."
-Nicholas D. Kristof
-Nicholas D. Kristof
Founded by two immigrants to the United States from Iraq and Singapore who made their life mission to make critical thinking, liberty and science accessible to people worldwide.

Ideas Beyond Borders is a global network of more than 250 translators and changemakers who empower people with good ideas to generate positive impact in their societies.
Our progress so far
Our curated content has been viewed over 215 million times, and our 200+ strong team of translators have helped double the size of Wikipedia Arabic.

215M
views of our curated contentÂ

45M
words
translated into native languages

75,000
books distributed

24,000
Wikipedia articles and news entries translated

237
translators & activists working within our networkÂ