Collaborations
We are proud to have teamed up with the following groups and projects for various collaborative projects:
Microsoft SwiftKey
Microsoft SwiftKey is a free virtual keyboard app which learns the user’s writing style and which allows code-switching in up to five languages. With the list constantly growing, the keyboard currently supports more than 400 languages, many of them marginalised, giving a digital voice to minority languages. We thank Julien Bailey and the Microsoft SwiftKey team for their fantastic support in helping us add Shaetlan to the keyboard.
MIT Haiti
MIT Haiti works on a global as well as a local scale to combine linguistics and technology to further social rights to speakers of marginalised languages. It promotes technology-enhanced active learning with a focus on Haiti and the use of Kreyòl in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines. We are proud to be part of collaborative efforts to build fun learning apps and share expertise and experiences with MIT Haiti, who, like us, believe that language is the breath of culture and that language, culture and environment are inter-linked.
Marine Conservation without Borders
Marine Conservation without Borders (MCB) seeks to further both scientific literacy and biocultural diversity through bilingual education material that builds on both modern science and on indigenous knowledge. Projects promoting biocultural diversity recognise that linguistic diversity, sustainability and resilience is a natural resource and a commodity in tandem with biodiversity and environmental sustainability and resilience. Like us, MCB believe that language is the breath of a culture, and cultures grow and evolve with their environments over countless generations. We are proud to be part of the MCB International Team for developing such materials.
Rivers Language Initiative
The coastal Rivers State of Nigeria is noted for its linguistic diversity, with at least 28 language varieties spoken in the area, many of them endangered. The Rivers Language Initiative works to promote and revitalize the different languages across the state, and bring back pride of place and identity, especially through technology and digital means. We are proud to be collaborating and sharing expertise and experiences with Rivers State Initiative to build fun learning apps.