Mozilla Festival
London, UK | Oct 2017
Session at Mozilla Festival 2017 with Subhashish Panigrahi : [Link]
OpenSpeaks: Open Curriculum Development For Multimedia Documentation of Marginalized Languages
As half of the world’s native languages are dying, a vast majority of the native language speakers do not get to access information or contribute to the knowledge commons in their own languages. This largely affect the digital inclusion equilibrium. There is an urgent need to digitally-document certain aspects of a language. This session will include demonstration of Open Educational Resources, Open Source software, and Open Datasets that are currently being developed to specifically document endangered/marginalized languages, create open multimedia archives, digital tools like spoken dictionary, text-to-speech and lead to brainstorming on the topics related to digital inclusion using open innovation and web literacy.
