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Building Inclusive Early Warning Systems: a Language Lens

Timely warnings during extreme events like floods and cyclones can save lives—but only if people can access and understand them. Currently, many early warning systems (EWS) rely heavily on written messages in national or official languages, often broadcast via cell phones. This approach excludes those who cannot read, access a phone, or speak the language […]

EdTech’s potential for effective mother tongue education for the Marma community

We looked at whether technology could help address the barriers to Marma mother-tongue education  Mother-tongue education remains out of reach for Marma children in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, despite the government’s effort to include this approach in its 2010 National Education Policy and to distribute Marma-language textbooks since 2017. As a result, Marma speakers are […]

Digital and language inclusion can transform lives — here’s how

group working around a table with whiteboards, pen and a tablet

Up to now, the advances in language technology that lie behind tools like ChatGPT, Alexa, and Google Translate have only worked for speakers of a few dozen languages. But in a wider range of languages, they could dramatically impact the lives of millions of people. They could enable those displaced by war and disasters to […]

Falmata’s Struggle for Survival and Communication in a Displaced World

Falmata*, a 25-year-old single mother from northeast Nigeria, once held dreams of a better future. Her mother tongue is Shuwa, the primary language of only 4% of households in the region. With two years of schooling, she didn’t get to learn other languages. When conflict erupted in her hometown, she was forced to flee, arriving […]

Toolkit for sharing your support for language inclusion

Thank you for supporting CLEAR Global’s language inclusion campaign! If you would like to contribute, you can do so on our campaign page. If you would like to organize your own fundraising, you’ll find ideas for that below. If you have already contributed, you can amplify your impact by spreading the word on social media: […]

Partnering to tailor language technology solutions to learners’ needs

User-centered design of Kinyarwanda MT applications for education We wrote recently about the experience of working with Kinyarwanda speakers to generate open-source language data for digital solutions in their language. But language data is only as useful as its application to real-world needs. To deploy the Kinyarwanda data and deliver effective applications of language AI […]

The challenge of language inclusion in the age of AI

Earlier this month, The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson posted a short video on LinkedIn (he does them every day – and they’re super interesting) about this paper, saying that Large Language Models (LLMs) are “increasing the number of people employed in translation.” That’s not exactly what the video said and it is not what the […]