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Helping bring new voices from new communities and speaking endangered or indigenous languages to the global conversation by facilitating the creation of peer learning networks to leverage the internet and digital media for their self-determined needs.
Digital Safety for Language Communities
Media Literacy for all
Language Digital Activism
@DigiAfricanLang
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@AsiaLangsOnline
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@NativeLangsTech
Rotating Twitter account for Native American and First Nations language digital activism in North America. Find out more.
@ActLenguas
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Mayan Language Digital Activism
Project to support emerging digital activists promoting Mayan Languages in digital spaces.
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Faisal Ali's role in pioneering Ghanaian Pidgin on Wikipedia
Faisal Ali, a Wikimedia volunteer known as DaSupremo, has helped launch the Ghanaian Pidgin Wikipedia in an effort to preserve language diversity online and offline.
Punjabi Wikipedia for 21 years: Celebrating 50,000 articles and looking ahead
The entire volunteer community came together for Mission 50,000, a call-for-action to reach 50k articles, in order to celebrate the 21st birthday of Punjabi Wikipedia.
RV Newsletter: Celebrating another round of our @DigiAfricanLang Twitter campaign
Language diversity, media literacy, digital rights, and more!
‘The media do not show what really happens in the Indigenous communities,’ an Indigenous radio host says
When you do a search for the word "Indigenous" in some Bolivian media, what do you find? María Jesús Velasco finds that the term is not reported on accurately.
‘After the fire, the media did not talk about the aftermath,’ Guarani communicator says
After the 2019 fires, Diego Encinas recalls that the media turned their attention to the Gran Chaco, but once the fire was mitigated, they forgot to cover the effects that today affect the flora, fauna and the Indigenous communities.
‘The media accuse us, Indigenous people, of starting the fires,’ this young Bolivian journalist says
Mario Quezada believes that the media should focus on providing information to prevent fires or pollution in the Gran Chaco
A Guaraní journalist questions the lack of critical coverage of oil production in the Gran Chaco
When you search for the term "oil activity" in Bolivian media, what do you find? Elías Cerezo observes that these terms are portrayed as being synonymous with progress.
A young Guaraní questions the absence of his native language in the media
When you do a search for the words "Indigenous people" in Bolivian media, what do you find? Rober Degni Abapori identifies that these terms refer to the Indigenous autonomies.
A young radio broadcaster asks the media to inform on the lack of health services in the Gran Chaco, Bolivia
When you do a search for the word "health" in some Bolivian media, what do you find? Génesis Juliane Quispe shares her perspective.
‘We can mitigate climate change by listening to the voice of the Indigenous peoples’ says young Indigenous leader in Bolivia
A young Indigenous leader speaks to the media: fact-check your information before sharing
‘We the Indigenous peoples are interested in conservation,’ says Indigenous youth in Bolivia
When you do a search for the words "identity" and "territory" in Bolivian media, what do you find?
No one left behind: promoting the Indigenous languages of Ghana
Discover the efforts of Mohammed Kamal-Deen Fuseini, a language digital activist committed to promoting indigenous languages in Ghana. Through Wikimedia projects, he champions the visibility of the Gurene language in digital realms.
Press freedom also means media in indigenous languages: The case of France's Occitan
Media production and access is essential to the revitalization of indigenous languages, as the case of Occitan, spoken less and less in southern France, demonstrates.
