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Systematic Prejudices: An Investigation into Bias Against Women and Girls in Large Language Models

Noah Siegel, Jackie Kay

Paris: UNESCO (2024), 20 pp.

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Reconceptualising multilingualism on African radio: A multilingual accommodation theory

Limukani Mathe, Gilbert Motsaathebe

International Journal of Multilingualism (2024), 16 pp.

"Media organisations in radio broadcasting are gradually fine-tuning to accommodate multilingual socio-cultural identities. Africa presents unique challenges of lingual diversity which some of the media, particularly public radio have struggled to accommodate. This article advocates for multilingual ... more

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Promoting Social Cohesion or an Enabler of Tribalism? A Closer Look at Community Radio Language Policies in Post-Apartheid South Africa’s Malamulele FM and Vuwani FM

Freddy Chauke, Prinola Govenden

Communicatio (2024), 21 pp.

"Tribalism is a social phenomenon polarising South Africa along ethnic lines and undermining democratic efforts for social cohesion in the newly reconfigured inclusive territorial zones. Community radio is expected to play a social cohesion role of uniting cohabiting disparate ethnic groups within t ... more

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Community Radio Content in Print Facebook Posts: Limitations and Opportunities for Indigenous Languages

Limukani Mathe, Gilbert Motsaathebe

Communicatio (2024), 67 pp.

"With the advent of social media, traditional analogue radio has converged to audio-visual with print formats. Using the case of community radio in Zimbabwe, this article explores how radio broadcasters have taken advantage of media convergence to disseminate text as implant on radio. A qualitative ... more

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How InkubaLM is Revolutionizing Locally-Led Development in Africa

Wayan Vota

ICTworks, September 26 (2024)

"Language diversity on the African continent is both a cultural strength and a technological challenge. With over 2,000 spoken languages, mainstream artificial intelligence tools have largely ignored the vast majority of African languages, creating a significant barrier to the full participation of ... more

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Language and Digital Humanitarian Action: The state of inclusion and exclusion for marginalised language speakers in digital humanitarian services

London: GSMA (2024), 22 pp.

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Hello Indigenous: A Blueprint on the Preservation of Endangered Indigenous Languages Through Digital Inclusion;Hello indígenas: Um modelo de projeto de inclusão digital para preservação de línguas indígenas ameaçadas

Jaguariúna: Motorola Mobility (2023), 33 pp.

"This document is a detailed report of best practices for the digital inclusion of speakers of endangered Indigenous languages. The proclamation of the period between 2022 and 2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL 2022-2032), as per Resolution A/RES/74/135 from United Nation ... more

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Digital Initiatives for Indigenous Languages
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Genner Llanes-Ortiz et al.

Paris: UNESCO;Global Voices (2023), 193 pp.

"This toolkit has been co-designed in close partnership with both established and emerging networks of Indigenous digital practitioners, language advocates, and collaborators, within the framework of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032. The toolkit promotes the foundation of l ... more

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Bridging the AI Language Gap in Africa and Beyond

Kira Schacht

Deutsche Welle (2023)

"AI tools, from ChatGPT to Google Translate, are useless to billions of people in the Global South who don't work in western languages. Researchers and startups from Africa and other parts of the world are changing that." (Introduction)

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Indigenous Language for Development Communication in the Global South
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Abiodun Salawu, Tshepang Bright Molale, Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed, Mohammad Sahid Ullah (eds.)

Lexington Books (2023), 310 pp.

"This edited collection brings together voices from the margins in underrepresented regions of the Global South, within the context of scholarship focusing on indigenous languages and development communication. Contributors bring together research from often-overlooked parts of the world to engage i ... more

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Indigenous African Language Media: Practices and Processes

Phillip Mpofu, Israel Ayinla Fadipe, Thulani Tshabangu (eds.)

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxxxvi, 444 pp.

"The book contributes to the sparse academic literature on African and minority language media research. It serves as a compendium of experiences, activities and case studies on the use of native language media. Chapters in this book make theoretical, methodical and empirical contributions about ind ... more

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African Language Media

Phillip Mpofu, Israel A. Fadipe, Thulani Tshabangu (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxi, 317 pp.

"This book outlines how African language media is affected by politics, technology, culture, and the economy and how this media is creatively produced and appropriated by audiences across cultures and contexts. African language media can be considered as a tool for communication, socialization, and ... more

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"Wait, Who's Timothy McVeigh"? A Translation Review of Facebook and YouTube Content Moderation Policies in Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, and Hindi

Orla O'Sullivan et al.

Localization Lab;Internews (2022), 54 pp.

"The report documents the quality and usability of Facebook and YouTube content moderation policies in four languages. It found that the translations of Facebook and YouTube's content moderation policies in these languages are far below a standard that would be considered acceptable by the average u ... more

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Language & Coloniality: Non-Dominant Languages in the Digital Landscape

Meital Kupfer, Jason Muyumba

Kampala: Pollicy;Internet Society Foundation (2022), 33 pp.

"This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape. This ties into ideas about digital colonialism (Kwett, 2022), wherein hegemonic, or dominant, languages are threatening and jeopardising the ability for local language speakers to expr ... more

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The Linguistic Dimensions of Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe

Busani Maseko, Dion Nkomo

In: Memory and Erasure: Gukurahundi and the Culture of Violence in Zimbabwe

Mandlenkosi Mpofu; Percy F. Makombe (eds.)

Harare: Weaver Press (2022), pp. 81-95

"This chapter explored the linguistic dimensions of Gukurahundi to show the centrality of language before, during and after the genocide. We drew on online testimonies from survivors and statements from government officials as well as visible language planning and language practices in the post-Guku ... more

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State of the Art of Indigenous Languages in Research: A Collection of Selected Research Papers

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 395 pp.

"In the context of the International Year and International Decade of Indigenous Languages, a Global Call for Research Papers was commissioned with the aim to show a diversity of scholarship in the field of Indigenous languages and related issues. The international peer-review team carried out a com ... more

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Radios africaines en ligne et promotion des langues locales : Une équation pas si simple à résoudre

Etienne Damome

ESSACHESS: Journal for Communication Studies, volume 15, issue 1(29) (2022), pp. 103-129

"La radio est le moyen de communication qui se centre le plus sur la langue et celui qui le mieux la fait vivre. C’est pour cette raison que la multiplication des stations de radio, notamment dans les territoires les plus reculés du monde, constitue une chance pour la survie des langues locales. ... more

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Slowing Transmission: Language Challenges in Community Radio Relay of COVID-19 Risk Communication in Afghanistan

Translators Without Borders (2021), 16 pp.

"In 2020 Internews launched the Rooted in Trust project to counter rumors and misinformation about COVID-19. They commissioned Translators without Borders (TWB) to map community radio stations and investigate the language and translation challenges community radio broadcasters face when relaying off ... icial COVID-19 risk communication to their audience. To better understand these challenges, TWB conducted a survey and interviews with 65 community radio broadcasters, representing a quarter of all community radio stations across Afghanistan. Based on our survey, we mapped community radio stations and the reach of each radio signal to estimate overall radio coverage across the country. Where possible, we triangulated our findings with data from Internews’ Information Ecosystem Assessment in Kabul, Kandahar, and Herat. Community radio stations remain an important source of information, especially for rural populations, less literate individuals, and in remote provinces. During public health emergencies, broadcasters can turn into health communicators and support the relay of risk communication, but they face several challenges. • Radio signals don’t cover all provinces: Based on the radio signals we were able to map, radio coverage doesn’t reach people equally across the country. Speakers of marginalized languages have especially limited access to radio broadcasts. Relative to population density, speakers of Turkmeni, Brahui, Balochi, and Uzbeki have especially limited access to radio broadcasts. • Few broadcasts are in languages other than Dari and Pashto: Dari and Pashto are the main broadcasting languages, but not everyone understands them. Broadcasts in other languages are largely limited to adverts, short audio clips, and sporadic language mixing in talk shows and call-in shows. Dedicated programs providing in-depth information in another language are rare. • Language barriers reduce the quality and timeliness of broadcasts: Community radio stations lack resources and translation capacity to broadcast in languages other than Dari or Pashto. As a result, some important information is delayed, and some is never broadcast at all. The quality and level of detail of broadcasts in other languages is also reduced. • Broadcasters face difficulties accessing available information: Most community radio stations have limited access to the internet and experience electricity failures. This makes accessing and validating available information on COVID 19 extremely difficult. Also, background information is often passed to broadcasters in English, but with limited internet access this information can’t readily be translated. • Information needs to be provided in plain language: Broadcasters don’t relay information that uses complicated language or technical and medical terms. New terms and complex new information around medical issues need to be rewritten and presented in plain language for a general audience. Yet community radio stations often can’t provide plain-language editing, so don’t relay more complex information." (Overview, page 1) more

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The International Year of Indigenous Languages: Mobilizing the International Community to Preserve, Revitalize and Promote Indigenous Languages

Paris: UNESCO (2021), 99 pp.

"The 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL2019) was a unique opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of indigenous languages in our societies and to mobilize partners around the world to take urgent measures to safeguard, support and promote indigenous languages. This fla ... more

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Language of Conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian Crisis

Natalia Knoblock (ed.)

London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2020), x, 279 pp.

"Exploring the ways in which language and conflict are intertwined and interrelated, this book examines the changes that have taken place in the public discourse of the Ukraine and Russia since 2014 and the beginning of the 'Ukrainian Crisis.' Through analysis of the narratives constructed by differ ... more

Digital Initiatives for Indigenous Languages Key Guidance Inspiring Practice

Indigenous Language for Development Communication in the Global South Top Insights

Digital Initiatives for Indigenous Languages
Key Guidance

Inspiring Practice

Indigenous Language for Development Communication in the Global South
Top Insights