Posts in RightsCon
April 27, 2018
Translate #RightsCon: Call for Arabic, French and Spanish speakers
RightsCon Toronto 2018 is the 7th event in the RightsCon Summit Series. It’s one of the world’s leading conference on human rights in the digital age, with conversations and panels relevant...
March 26, 2017
RightsCon Brussels 2017: Translation Lab
We asked, what would happen if the most important tweets from RightsCon 2016 were made available in Spanish and Arabic? Given the conference’s global audience, it felt crucial to make...
May 15, 2016
Here’s what we learned about global conferences and social media
In #RightsCon Conference, we translated 444 Tweets — 172 to Arabic, 259 to Spanish. That’s 148 Tweets/day, or roughly 19 Tweets/hour. Here’s what we learned about global conferences.
April 14, 2016
#RightsCon Translation Lab Was Powered by GV and Meedan
GV Lingua and Meedan have collaborated to translate RightsCon conference tweets to Spanish and Arabic via its Bridge Translation tool. More projects to come, here is what we have done.
March 25, 2016
Meedan and Lingua Partnering to Translate RightsCon to Spanish and Arabic
Lingua has partnered with Meedan to translate RightsCon tweets to Spanish and Arabic, from Wednesday, March 30 to Friday, April 1, 2016. RightsCon is the world’s leading conference convened on the future...
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धन्यवाद Sanjib-ji!
We're looking forward to seeing you in Nepal, Filip. Best wishes, Sanjib
This is just lovely
Lovely post! Kevin certainly found a great way of using his Kenyan tanka. And Georgia, the...