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The [[National Endowment for Democracy|NED]]’s [[Center for International Media Assistance]] states:

[[Tavaana E-Learning Institute for Iranian Civil Society]] was launched in May 2010 with seed money from the [[U.S. State Department]] to conduct live e-courses and webinars, many dealing with subjects forbidden by the Iranian government. The Tavaana project’s parent organization, the [[E-Collaborative for Civic Education]], has received support from the [[National Endowment for Democracy]], the [[Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs]], and the [[United States Agency for International Development]].<ref>https://www.cima.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/CIMA-Iran.pdf</ref>
== History ==
According to Tavaana's website, the project seeks a “free and open Iranian society, one in which each and every Iranian enjoys equality, justice and the full spectrum of civil and political liberties.”<ref>{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://www.eciviced.org/about.html|website=E-Collaborative for Civic Education|accessdate=28 August 2014}}</ref> Tavaana was founded by [[Akbar Atri]], a former student leader and drafter of a referendum for a 'democratic' Iranian constitution, and [[Mariam Memarsadeghi]], who previously headed [[Freedom House]]’s Middle East and North Africa programs.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mariam Memarsadeghi|url=http://www.ihrr.org/ihrr_author/mariam-memarsadeghi-en/|website=Iran Human Rights Review|accessdate=29 August 2014}}</ref> 
	
Tavaana was originally incubated as a project of the [[Center for Liberty in the Middle East]] through a seed grant from the [[Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor|U.S. Department of State’s Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Tavaana - Center for Liberty in the Middle East|url=http://www.mideastliberty.org/tavaana.html|website=Center for Liberty in the Middle East|accessdate=3 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Supporting Internet Freedom: The Case of Iran|url=http://www.cima.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/CIMA-Iran.pdf|website=Center for International Media Assistance|accessdate=29 June 2016}}</ref> In 2011 Tavaana became a project of the [[E-Collaborative for Civic Education]] (ECCE), a US-based non-profit organization with a mission to leverage technology to promote civic learning and democratic political life internationally.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Letter from the Founders|url=http://www.eciviced.org/|website=E-Collaborative for Civic Education|accessdate=29 August 2014}}</ref>

==People==
=== Faculty ===
Prominent Tavaana faculty members include:<ref>{{cite web|title=Tavaana Teachers|url=https://tavaana.org/en/content/tavaana-teachers|website=Tavaana|date=2 March 2018 |accessdate=15 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Defending human rights, empowering civil society in Iran|url=http://www.demdigest.net/defending-human-rights-empowering-civil-society-iran/|website=Democracy Digest|accessdate=28 June 2016}}</ref>

* [[Kamiar Alaei]]
* [[Ladan Boroumand]]
* [[Golriz Ghahraman]]
* [[Nazila Ghanea]]
* [[Ramin Jahanbegloo]]
* [[Mehrangiz Kar]]  
* [[Mehdi Khalaji]]
* [[Ivan Marovic]]
* [[Majid Mohammadi]]
* [[Ebrahim Nabavi]]
* [[Arash Naraghi]]
* [[Mohammad Reza Nikfar]]
* [[Mansour Osanlou]]
* [[Saeed Paivandi]] 
* [[Nancy Pearson]]
* [[Nima Rashedan]] 
* [[Mohsen Sazegara]]
* [[Kathleen Schafer]]
* [[Hassan Shariatmadari]]

==Notes==
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