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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“.

Iván Guzmán de Rojas and the Aymara language

Son of a famous Bolivian painter who dedicated his art to the Aymara people, Iván Guzmán 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…

OBDILCI’ SITE RECEIVES WEB GURU AWARD

OBDILCI ‘s Website has been elected WEB GURU Award of the day for February, 23rd, 2024. “Web Guru Awards is an international award-honoring stage on the Internet. The best websites are awarded for their unique designs and functionality.” The criterias…

New Page: Pre-historic Projects

The history of networks, from computer manufacturer networks (such as IBM’s VNET), military networks (such as Arpanet), research networks (such as BITNET), libertarian networks (such as USENET) up to the merger into the Internet is a young story that began in the late 60s…

New Website

We are glad to announce the launch of our new website designed under WordPress. Since 2017, the OBDILCI website was made and maintained with a minimal and no professional effort by OBDILCI’s President. Thanks to the support of DGLFLF, we…