In June 2024, GoogleTranslate have extended its capacity to detect and translate languages to 244 languages with some new 100 languages, which is obviously a great news. Something however could arise a justified controversy: the separation between Portuguese from Brazil…
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China looks after our studies
Chinese researcher discovers that the figures about a tiny Chinese web content share in spite of being the first language in terms of users maybe flawed by the use of biased data. ไธญๆไบ่็ฝๅ
ๅฎน็็ๆญฃๅจ่กฐ้ๅ๏ผ (Is Chinese Internet content really declining?): https://www.shkp.org.cn/articles/2024/06/wx483444.htmlย …
GELPI: GEOPOLITICS OF THE MULTILINGUAL INTERNET
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐: “๐๐๐๐๐๐ร๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐” (2/9-18/10) Applications for the specialized training course “GELPI Geopolitics of the Multilingual Internet – Presence and promotion of the Portuguese language in cyberspace” are open from July 29 to August 10. Entries…
Workshop United Nations June 18th
Cultural and linguistic diversity in the era of digitalization and emerging technologies Workshop United Nations June 18th Contribution (in French) to the workshop Cultural and linguistic diversity in the era of digitalization and emerging technologies , June, 18th, 2024, New York, United Nations…
New page: English@Web
New page: English@Web: an historical bias You are surprised to discover OBDILCI announcing values for the percentage of English in the Web around 20%? You have read everywhere that English represents more than 50% of the web, way above any…
VERSION 5.1 OF MODEL PUBLISHED
V5.1 April 2024 OBDILCI announces the version 5.1 of its model of indicators of the presence of languages in the Internet. This version includes the update of the demolinguistic figures from Ethnologue #27 dataset of March 2024 and an update…
ICV2024 Symposium AI and Citizenship
OBDILCI contributed to the ICV Symposium AI and Citizenship with a conference “AI & Multilingualism: between dream and nightmare“.
Ivรกn Guzmรกn de Rojas and the Aymara language
Son of a famous Bolivian painter who dedicated his art to the Aymara people, Ivรกn Guzmรกn de Rojas (1934-2022) was an engineer who created an extremely original and powerful translation program: he used the Aymara language as a pivotal language…
Elon’s AI Impact by 2040
Elon University uses to publish insightful reports on emerging questions about the Internet. Their method is to survey a list of experts on the subject, collect and organize their contributions into a structured report. OBDILCI participated in: 2018: The Future of…
DISPARITION OF ADAMA SAMASSEKOU
An essential figure in the fight for linguistic diversity has just disappeared: Adama Samassekou, the President of MAAYA, the World Network for Linguistic Diversity, but also the leader of numerous civil society structures that you can learn from this announcement…