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Rising Voices members to organize a panel discussion at Internet Governance Forum

Categories: Languages, Rising Voices
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Join us on December 8 as we discuss at the Internet Governance Forum the collaborative online digital activism strategies for low-resource languages.

On December 8, 2021, Global Voices [1], through its Rising Voices  [2]initiative, will collaborate with O Foundation [3] to host an online conversation at the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) conference, a large international conference featuring key internet stakeholders including representatives from the civil society, UN nation states, regulators, and private organizations among others.

The panel, “Building the wiki-way for low-resource languages [4]” will delve into the language digital activism initiatives in different regions and will focus on three key areas: building capacity of language digital activists, development of various language technology tools and open technology platforms such as Wikipedia and Wikidata for a collaborative and decentralized development of technology and content.

We will hear about Rising Voices’ own initiatives such as the Digital Activism Toolkit [5] and the Language Digital Activism Workshops for India [6] that was organized recently, use of Wikidata (a Wikipedia sister project) for low-resource languages, learning from the Yorùbá and Dagbani language Wikipedias, and linguistic resource development in the Sakha language.

The panelists are:

The panel [4] will be moderated by Subhashish Panigrahi who is a Global Voices contributor, a language digital activist and co-founder of O Foundation.

Register here [7] to attend the online session. More details about participating can be accessed here [8].