Is the foreign language internet a force for greater social good?
posted Thu, 2011-06-02 16:37 by
In an ever-globalised world, new technological advances are making it easier than ever for people to connect across the world. Not only does this help the savvy businessperson, but it can help those who are less fortunate than others.
tags: Crowdsourcing, Foreign Language Internet, Multilingual Marketing, social good
Google brings in the machines for Wikipedia translations
posted Tue, 2010-07-27 10:41 by
Google and Wikipedia recently announced that they are aiming to translate more than 16 million words of Wikipedia content into ‘smaller languages’.
While Wikipedia already contains a wealth of information in English, German and French, languages such as Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Swahili, Telugu and Gujarati are under-represented.
Google is aiming to rectify this - and further its aim of internationalising knowledge - by translating Wikipedia’s most read pages into these languages.
tags: Crowdsource, Crowdsourcing, Google, PEMT, Wikipedia
