NEW VERSION OF MODEL: July 2025 ITU updated the percentage of connected persons for 138 countries over 227, 60 with negative changes and 78 with positive changes. Most changes are less than 10% with few exceptions. Some changes look as…
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FOURTH STUDY ON WEB MULTILINGUALISM
Here comes the fourth study on Web multilingualism conducted using the DataProvider.com database. This time, the study is in Spanish, and the topic is: Una evaluaciĂłn de la reciprocidad en el uso mutuo del español y del portuguĂ©s en las Web…
THIRD REPORT ON WEB MULTILINGUALISM
I am pleased to announce the third study on multilingualism conducted using the DataProvider.com database. This time the study is in French, for a change, and the topic is: A characterization of the French-speaking Web based on a series of…
New Report on WEB MULTILINGUALISM
Announcement of the second report of the series WebMultilingualism: Exploring web presence and multilingualism of European minority languages with associated gTLDs. The conclusions of the study are:
Publication : a strategy for discoverability
OBDILCI just published Une stratĂ©gie rĂ©ussie de dĂ©couvrabilitĂ© en contenu scientifique, sans recours aux services SEO, 3/2025 Success story of a discoverability strategy in the scientific field, focused on a limited number of keywords, developed from a convergent bundle of…
New section in “other projects”: studies on web multilingualism
OBDILCI is pleased to announce a new series of studies about the state of multilingualism of  the Internet, sustained by data from Dataprovider.com. Their database gathers over 200 parameters about web sites, covering nearly the entire WWW ecosystem (800+ million…
Interview to D. Pimienta in UNESCO Chair for Linguistic Policies for Multilingualism platform
Interview made by Simone Schwambach and Camila Muniz on the theme of Geopolitics of multilingualism in the digital world, in Spanish.
A gift to diversity for starting new year 2025
A gift to diversity for starting new year 2025 We have installed in all our webpages the possibility to use automatic translation via GoogleTranslate thru a selection at the right side of the menu screen. As of today, Google Translate…
V5.2: New version of model, November 2024
The model has made a new run from ITU data updates. ITU changed the percentage of individuals connected to the Internet for 62 countries, using sources provided by the countries. The changes concerned only one African country (Malawi), making a…
An exhaustive study of existing methods to measure languages online and more evidences that English around 25%
COMPARISON BETWEEN DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO MEASURE PROPORTION OF LANGUAGES ON LINE AND HISTORICAL FLASHBACK So far, five different approaches have been identified of companies, universities or civil society organizations offering, as of today, figures about language’s proportion online. This study…