The future we need includes every language
While AI is progressing, technology is leaving billions behind. Language access is the key to essential services and emergency support. Tech tools are mostly built in power centers and optimized to work only in a few languages.
We are at a critical turning point. The decisions being made now will determine whether the next decades of transformation include all voices or leave millions behind. We need technology and the social impact sector to speak every language so that weather alerts, health programs, resettlement information, local teacher trainings, and much more information can be understood.
Power dynamics shift when language dynamics shift
At CLEAR Global, our goal is to ensure people get information in the language they speak. For many of the 4 billion people whose languages are not yet online, language technology can be the key to unlocking digital access.
We are doing this by:
Let’s build a digitally inclusive world together
We can create a world where people can get vital information and services in the very language they use at home.
An urgent need
AI is moving fast. If we don’t act now, it will leave millions behind.
The combination of shrinking budgets for humanitarian aid and the gap of language data in this AI boom means innovative tools are not created for people who speak marginalized languages. We’re at a pivotal moment: ensuring AI includes everyone must happen now, as we stand at the beginning of a transformation that will create a radically different world within the next decade. The decisions we make today will determine whether that future includes all voices or leaves millions behind.
can provide one month of on-call volunteer interpretation for a charity worker, allowing them to finally help a migrant family access the medical or legal support they’ve been denied by a language barrier.
an give a voice to health guidelines, ensuring that life-saving medical advice reaches an entire community, even those who cannot read or write.
can bridge the silence between a survivor and a doctor by training a local field worker to interpret accurately during the height of a crisis.
translates 2,500 words of disaster-readiness plans before the storm hits, giving a community the knowledge they need to protect themselves.
enables a language justice activist to speak to global power holders to ensure the right to be understood is written into international humanitarian policy.
Your impact
4 billion people speak marginalized languages that need your support
Tools that save lives in climate disasters, conflict zones and health emergencies
Ethical AI systems built to create a better world
Human-centered linguistic skills are essential to building responsible AI and ensuring that marginalized voices are heard, understood, and protected.
You can also align your organization with responsible AI leadership by becoming a CLEAR Global sponsor.
Questions? Contact us at fundraising@clearglobal.org
CLEAR Global is a registered nonprofit. Your donation is tax deductible in the USA and Ireland, and it may be tax deductible in other locations too.