Global Voices Lingua Project
- 1. For OT12 MOOC - November 2012 Welcome to http://globalvoicesonline.org
- 2. Global Voices is… A news An educational resource tool A global community A bunch of activists A set of websites A bridge THE real between Tower of Babel places and cultures
- 3. Global Voices is… A news An educational resource tool A global community A bunch of activists A set of websites A bridge THE real between Tower of Babel places and cultures
- 4. Founded at Harvard’s University Berkman Center for Internet and Society (2005) We aggregate, curate, amplify and translate global conversations online. Spotlight on places and people often ignored by media Nearly 1,000 active members: authors, translators, editors; present in virtually every country Multicultural and multilingual: daily translations into 30 languages; many more are spoken/understood in the community Volunteer driven, passion motivated, open to everyone and all
- 5. Back in 2006, Global Voices was just another Wordpress blog.
- 8. Why do we need Global Voices? Online censorship Digital Language divide barrier Because there are blocks to the online conversation
- 9. Blocks to the online conversation: digital divide “Wall of the People” Maputo, Mozambique “The idea of the Wall was to create a permanent and offline space for readers to read (simple) and to comment (simple). In a sense, an offline Facebook wall.” Photo: @giantpandinha (also a GVer!) Global Voices post: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/03/13/mozambique-the-peoples-wall-of-maputo/
- 10. Blocks to the online conversation: digital divide “Wall of the People” Maputo, Mozambique “The idea of the Wall was to create a permanent and offline space for readers to read (simple) and to comment (simple). In a sense, an offline Facebook wall.” Photo: @giantpandinha (also a GVer!) Global Voices post: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/03/13/mozambique-the-peoples-wall-of-maputo/
- 13. Blocks to the online conversation: Most countries that are censorship connected to the internet conduct some level of internet censorship. Some of the most commonly censored contents include Pornography, Social Networks, Wikipedia, Wikileaks, Political Blogs, Religious Websites and Video Streaming. The governments have developed a subtle and sophisticated system to establish borders of control within the international cyberspace. Source: http://open.youyuxi.com/ with info from OpenNet Initiative's Research
- 14. Blocks to the online conversation: Most countries that are censorship connected to the internet conduct some level of internet censorship. Some of the most commonly censored contents include Pornography, Social Networks, Wikipedia, Wikileaks, Political Blogs, Religious Websites and Video Streaming. The governments have developed a subtle and sophisticated system to establish borders of control within the international cyberspace. Source: http://open.youyuxi.com/ with info from OpenNet Initiative's Research
- 17. Blocks to the online conversation: language barrier There are 6,909 known living languages (46 of whom have just a single speaker). This means that there is one language for every 862,000 people on Earth. Europe alone accounts for only 234 of them, whereas in Asia 2,322 languages are spoken on a daily basis. In addition to real languages, there are also 200 auxlangs, like Solresol and Esperanto. Sources: Ethnologue, Wikipedia; Image: Mitch Bolton (http://drbl.in/eXjA)
- 18. Blocks to the online conversation: language barrier There are 6,909 known living languages (46 of whom have just a single speaker). This means that there is one language for every 862,000 people on Earth. Europe alone accounts for only 234 of them, whereas in Asia 2,322 languages are spoken on a daily basis. In addition to real languages, there are also 200 auxlangs, like Solresol and Esperanto. Sources: Ethnologue, Wikipedia; Image: Unkown
- 20. Global Voices in Amharic - the newest Lingua site, starting in September 2012
- 21. Global Voices in Myanmar/Burmese
- 22. Global Voices in Malagasy
- 24. It all started when a guy in Taiwan decided to translate Global Voices posts in Chinese!
- 25. How translations appear on our sites All translations are listed on the post pages
- 26. Lingua started in 2006 with six language; doubled by end of 2007. In 2012, we have Global Voices in 36 languages From January to October, over 500 volunteers have translated 15,661 posts, which makes an average of 1,424 posts a month. To date: 70,838 translations! We have all the top 10 largest languages in the world, but also smaller languages such as Catalan, lingua franca tongues like Swahili, and endangered languages, such as Aymara Volunteers are free to choose what they want to translate, and how much or how little they want to contribute Lingua teams have autonomy to decide how to manage themselves
- 27. Global Voices in Portuguese collaboration chart
- 28. Initial process: from blogs to Lingua
- 29. Before 2010, we only translated from English. It was quite simple.
- 31. Starting in 2010, not only Lingua translates, but produces original content too, making Global Voices truly global Original content in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Catalan, Bengali regularly We have also had posts in Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Italian, Russian, German, Swahili, and Amharic* Since 2010, we have written 1,586 posts. We have people translating from Bengali and Chinese into French! All posts are translated into English for the sake of global conversation; new teams of Lingua into English translators have started
- 32. Multilingual newsroom Starting in 2010, not only Lingua translates, but produces original content too, making Global Voices truly global Original content in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Catalan, Bengali regularly We have also had posts in Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Italian, Russian, German, Swahili, and Amharic* As of Dec 2012, we have written 1,586 original non-English posts. We have people translating from Bengali and Chinese into French! All posts are translated into English for the sake of global conversation; new teams of Lingua into English translators have started
- 33. Lingua challenges Multilingual newsroom Videos still No translation No turns GV baffle us! translation tools for upside down tools Wordpress Translations of translations of Too large to translations! manage? Motivation, NoOverstretched volunteer translation retention, quality tools editors
- 34. Who supports Global Voices? YOU!
- 36. Thanks for listening! http://globalvoicesonline.org.com paula.goes@globalvoicesonline.com
Editor's Notes
- #6: this is the original design of GV when it first started. I like to show it to give people a sense of how basic it was at first and how ti grew organically because people wanted to join. Talk about RMACK And ETHANZ and hwo they were just researchers at harvard.
- #35: these are just a few examples of our funders. Note we also accept personal donations and are looking for ways to monetize the site without losing our morals.
- #37: Intro screen, introduce yourself and GV but there is lots more into to gv coming so don't say too much .