Practical Insights on Language Development

How InkubaLM is Revolutionizing Locally-Led Development in Africa

How InkubaLM is Revolutionizing Locally-Led Development in Africa

Published on: Sep 26 2024 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on How InkubaLM is Revolutionizing Locally-Led Development in Africa
Language diversity on the African continent is both a cultural strength and a technological challenge. With over 2,000 spoken languages, mainstream artificial intelligence...
How to Include Marginalized Language Speakers in Development Programs

How to Include Marginalized Language Speakers in Development Programs

Published on: Aug 13 2024 by Sponsored Post - 1 Comment
There are more than 7,000 human languages, yet only those few used by the world’s economically and politically powerful nations have a strong online presence...
Who Needs Human Interpreters When You Have Google Translate – Instant Artificial Intelligence Translation?

Who Needs Human Interpreters When You Have Google Translate – Instant Artificial Intelligence Translation?

Published on: Jun 25 2024 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Who Needs Human Interpreters When You Have Google Translate – Instant Artificial Intelligence Translation?
Esperanto is a constructed international language created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 as a universal second language for international communication. It’s aim...
How to Increase Girls Digital Literacy in East Asia and Pacific

How to Increase Girls Digital Literacy in East Asia and Pacific

Published on: May 15 2024 by Guest Writer - 1 Comment
The recent UNICEF study Girls’ Digital Literacy in East Asia and Pacific Regions, showed that girls and boys across the region are online in huge numbers, but...
Apply Now: $900,000 for African Natural Language Processing Projects

Apply Now: $900,000 for African Natural Language Processing Projects

Published on: Nov 24 2021 by Wayan Vota - 1 Comment
The ability to communicate and be understood in one’s own language is fundamental to digital and societal inclusion. Natural language processing techniques...
Apply Now: $650,000 for EduTech Language and Literacy Skills Solutions

Apply Now: $650,000 for EduTech Language and Literacy Skills Solutions

Published on: Feb 22 2021 by Wayan Vota - 4 Comments
More than 85 percent of a child’s brain is developed by age 6 and a growing body of evidence suggests investing in high-quality pre-primary education –...
4 Reasons why Facebook is an Educational Tool for Schools

4 Reasons why Facebook is an Educational Tool for Schools

Published on: Dec 03 2010 by Wayan Vota - 8 Comments
Recently I helped review the use of information and communication technologies in the Jordanian public school system and I was intrigued to find that Facebook was...
La Localisation des TICs pour les Langues Africaines

La Localisation des TICs pour les Langues Africaines

Published on: May 19 2010 by Miriam Young - 3 Comments
Quand on parle de la promotion des TIC dans les milieux ruraux en Afrique, en quelle langue faut-il parler ? Il y a des centaines de langues en Afrique, représentant...