"Content moderation at scale is an extremely complicated issue, however by looking at specific examples such as the case studies and data highlighted in this study, the conversation can start to take into account more diverse experiences and context that is normally overlooked. Emerging from these e
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xperiences are recommendations for reform and structural change reflected in focus group discussions and demands by activists in the region, some of which are reproduced below. 1. Over-reliance on automated systems should be revised in light of issues emerging from non-English speaking markets. The failure of these systems to adequately account for context should be reason enough to fundamentally revise systems and protocols underpinning them. 2. Dedicating more resources to human-based content moderation in non-Western contexts. The disparity of material resources between countries considered “key economies” and the “rest of the world” is startling and has resulted in enormous challenges for societies and political structures elsewhere [...] 3. Radical transparency by tech platforms regarding the ways in which content moderation policies are formulated and implemented should be high on the priority of digital platforms [...] 4. Content moderation decisions are often one-sided, with little recource for users who are aggrieved by the decisions, both for false positives or inaction by platforms. Meta's Oversight Board is a positive start but the model only impacts select cases. There needs to be a robust and time-responsive system for appeals that provides users with complete information regarding content moderation decisions and responsive action on appeals. 5. Content moderation decisions by tech platforms, and inaction in equal measure, have resulted in tangible real-world harms in the past and present." (Conclusion, page 23-24)
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"This research aims at finding the current state of (open) voice datasets in Indian languages, including information about their volume, quality, mode of collection, and availability. The present research also explores the challenges for the creation and maintenance of open voice datasets in India.
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The report makes practice-oriented recommendations for future sustainable voice data collection based on both extensive desk research and expert interviews."
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"Topics covered include the ongoing linguistic processes, controversies, and implications of language modernization; the functions of South Asian languages within the legal system, media, cinema, and religion; language conflicts and politics, and Sanskrit and its long traditions of study and teachin
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g. Language in South Asia is an accessible interdisciplinary book for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language planning and South Asian studies." (Publisher description)
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"A collection of essays on an important ongoing debate, the publication of material in indigenous languages. Three African publishers – Dumisani Ntshangase (Juta Publishers, South Africa), Victor Nwankwo (Fourth Dimension Publishing Company, Nigeria), and Mamadou Aliou Sow (Les Editions Ganndal, C
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onakry, Guinea) – two African writers-editors/academics M. Mulokozi (Tanzania) and Damtew Teferra (Ethiopia); a woman publisher from India, Urvashi Butalia (Kali for Women, New Delhi), and Thomas Clayton, an American academic, look at the situation of indigenous language publishing in Africa, analyzing the problems, and offering possible prescriptions for advancing the cause of publishing in African languages. The contributors examine the situation in the various countries and regions covered, including issues such as colonial heritage, lack of national publishing policies, ambiguities towards the use of mother tongue in education beyond the first few years of primary school, forbidding economics of minority language publishing, as well as other aspects such as orthography, and technical issues related to management of the publishing and printing industries. The papers provide informative overviews of publishing in indigenous languages in African countries and elsewhere." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2084)
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"The present work considers the many possible uses of information technologies from the viewpoint of newspapers, with particular reference to small- and medium-sized papers in Asia and the Pacific. Despite, and perhaps even because of, the special challenges faced by this region, due for example to
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its vast cultural and economic diversity and its multitude of languages based on non-Roman scripts, it is hoped that the work will also be of interest to newspaper and allied media professionals in other developing regions." (Preface, page 6)
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