Here are two short videos that survey the history of the Internet, from the perspective of languages, and with an alternative vision to the official discourse. They are two elements of a complete course of which we have just completed…
Category: Announcements (page 3)
A peer-review publication says English domination on the Web a half-truth
An important milestone for OBDILCI: our article โIs it True that More Than Half of Web Contents are in English? Not If Multilingualism is Paid Due Attention!โ has finally been published in the peer-reviewed Forum for Linguistic Studies. We wish…
The (fourth) digital dimension of the Instituto Cervantes yearbook 2024 “Spanish in the world”.
In the context of Spain’s formidable investment in the cross-cutting themes of artificial intelligence and language [1] one awaited with great interest the annual release of the Cervantes Institute yearbook to learn about the first impact of these plans on…
DLD Project
DLD (Digital Language Death), a project entirely based on solidarity, is finally entering its development phase, thanks to 3 voluntaries joining the partnership. It’s about the systematic evaluation of the potential risks for all languages to be left aside in…
GoogleTranslate extended to 244 languages but introduced a controversial matter with Portuguese
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…
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…