Category: Announcements

Study on multilingualism of gTLDs of France As second part of the project funded by DGLFLF, MECILDI was applied in the following geographic/linguistic gTLDs with the goal to collect indicators of multilingualism and language’s proportion:  .alsace, .bzh (Bretagne), .corsica, .eus (basque), .gp (Guadeloupe), .nc (Nouvelle Calédonie) and also .quebec and .paris. Some…

The linguistic digital divide The French-language Canadian journal Minorités linguistiques et société publishes in its Issue 23, 2024, dedicated to “Digital Technology and Linguistic Communities in Minority Settings: Roles, Impacts, and Challenges,” an open-access article by Virginie Hébert and Maria…

MECILDI V1 FIRST RUN ON TRANCO SERIES April 2026: This is an historical moment for whoever is interested in languages@internet. For the first time, a language detection program is designed with due consideration to web multilingualism, correcting the strong bias…

Human Resilience for the AI Age An essay, co-written with Luis Germán Rodríguez 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…