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  • Human Resilience for the AI Age
    Human Resilience for the AI Age An essay, co-written with Luis Germán RodrĂ­guez Leal, is published in the last production of the always impacting and stimulating Elon University’ Imagining the Digital Future Center :  “Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the AI Age”. This essay focuses the urgency and importance of pervasive and comprehensive Digital…
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  • Le français dans le monde
    Le français dans le monde Publication by OIF/Gallimard of the report about French language in the world in which we have contributed to the chapter about languages in the Internet, pp 187-193. The full report in French is accessible here (42MB).
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  • MECILDI
    MECILDI A new section have been added under the title MAIN PROJECT 2: MECILDI. MECILDI stands for targeted measurement of languages in the Internet from its French initials. It is a new and ambitious project based on the creation of a program in capacity to extract language repartition and multilingualism parameters from any series of…
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  • From Babel to AI
    From Babel to AI Daniel Pimienta, on behalf of OBDILCI, said he was very honored to have been invited to address the issue of linguistic diversity on the Internet (English version) in the second edition of the reference work (in French). « De Babel Ă  l’intelligence artificielle – Le plurilinguisme de Dante Ă  nos jours » Christian…
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  • GROKIPEDIA ARTICLE ON FUNREDES
    https://grokipedia.com/page/funredes The Grokipedia article on Funredes (Network and Development Foundation), built on Grok exploration of multiple sources, 80 % being Funredes own web archives and publications, is really impressive in terms of digesting and reorganizing a large amount of information and giving respective priorities between a large set of elements. Hereafter, we share some comments…
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  • CERVANTES PUBLISH ITS 2025 REPORT ABOUT SPANISH IN THE WORLD
    Welcome to the new Cervantes report “Spanish in the world, 2025” : We have been critical about the 2024 edition of this report. Our considerations of 2024 have been fully surpassed; this time the report brings original and very interesting data on the Spanish, both demographically and economically and maintains the focus on the digital…
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  • STUDY #7 ON WEB MULTILINGUALISM
    STUDY #7 ON WEB MUTILINGUALISM Propension to use French language in the Web ecosystem of Francophone African ccTLDs. The study computes the ratio between percentage of websites in French language and percentage of French L1+L2 speakers in each country and sub-region as the main indicator and derive conclusions for the future of French in the…
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  • OBDILCI WEBSITE TRAFFIC FIGURES
    ANALYSIS OF OBDILCI.ORG TRAFFIC EVOLUTION The following curves show the evolution of the OBDILCI’s website traffic data since its beginning and the factor which have boosted those figures. How to read those curves? Unique visitors accounts for the number of different persons (associated to a unique IP number) who have visited the website during one…
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  • INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMA LINGUISTIC POLICIES FOR MULTILINGUALISM
    OBDILCI contributes to the new International Diploma Course in Language Policies and Multilingualism: Debates and Practices for Diversity and Interculturality.An OMMIP Course – An Online, Multilingual, Multidisciplinary, Interinstitutional, and Pluricontinental Course The course, organized by UNESCO Chair on Linguistic Policies for Multilingualism and University of Antioquia (Colombia) will be offered mixing English, French, Portuguese and…
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  • NEW SECTION IN OTHER PROJECTS: LINGUISTIC gTLDs
    We have add a new section under OTHER PROJECTS to gather studies about linguistic generic top level domains (gTLDs). It contains a study already announced and a new study realized by Daniel Pimienta for domini.cat: Following the Legacy of Pioneer .CAT: Identifying World Languages Best Suited for Linguistic gTLDs, D. Pimienta/domini.cat, 1/2025
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