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Two thirds of the 7,000+ languages spoken today do not have a written form. In many low- and middle-income countries, colonial languages like English or French are the teaching medium, but that doesn’t mean that the majority are comfortable reading and writing them.

This is why multilingual voice technology has the power to overcome language and literacy barriers, allowing users to navigate digital spaces and access vital information in the audio form that is easiest for them.

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ June is Pride month, a time for celebration, commemoration, and protest centered on the LGBTQIA+ community. Across the world, millions of displaced and asylum-seeking LGBTQIA+ people are systematically overlooked by aid organizations.

We urge humanitarian organizations to be true allies for the LGBTQIA+ community. Review your organization's programs and policies in light of data and lived experiences to ensure the specific needs of LGBTQIA+ people in crises, including their language preferences, are taken care of.

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ June is Pride month, a time for celebration, commemoration, and protest centered on the LGBTQIA+ community. Across the world, millions of displaced and asylum-seeking LGBTQIA+ people are systematically overlooked by aid organizations.

🇺🇬🇨🇩 With the current Ebola outbreak in Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo, it is essential to consider the languages people speak in health communications. Swipe to see tips on our recommendations based on previous experiences.

Check out these resources that can help in your organization's Ebola outbreak response: - Our language service offering: clearglobal.org/language-and... - Glossaries: glossaries.clearglobal.org - A compilation of DRC-focused resources: clearglobal.org/cg_resource_...

Language data is crucial to social impact work. 🌟 Whether you're designing education programs, planning reproductive health interventions, or contributing to community services, knowing which languages people speak and where they speak them makes all the difference.

Wiki Project Med Foundation collaborated with the Translators without Borders community to translate key health topics in numerous languages: Vietnamese, Bulgarian, Swahili, Arabic, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Turkish, and Czech. ⚕️ Read more: clearglobal.org/when-health-...

Everyone deserves the right to communicate in the language they speak. On December 10th, we celebrate #HumanRightsDay. Millions of people are excluded from basic human rights such as health, education, and crisis support simply because they speak a language that technology doesn't understand.

Since the beginning, our mission has been to ensure people access vital information, no matter what language they speak. As technology advances, speakers of a handful of languages have increased access to information and resources, while those who speak marginalized languages are left behind.

When emergency warnings, aid applications, and recovery services arrive in the wrong language, we're abandoning the communities most vulnerable to climate change. Climate action must be multilingual, or it will fail the people who need it most.

Supporting survivors of sexual violence through vital communications 🎙️ Together with Bibliothèques Sans Frontières, we produced community-focused content that offered guidance to survivors of sexual violence in the form of a podcast. Read more: clearglobal.org/supporting-s...

How can we build chatbots that are safe for girls? In this video, Aimee discusses Girl Effect's launch of Big Sis, a chatbot which was built for users, particularly girls, to ask sensitive questions in a safe environment: youtube.com/shorts/5DTDW... What do you think of this initiative? 💭

This #InternationalDayforDisasterRiskReduction, we want to highlight how Indigenous knowledge is essential to disaster preparedness, especially for communities who are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vctN...

To understand how health services can become more effective in their communication, we interviewed members of the Rohingya community about their experiences and perspectives relating to mental health, including the words they use to talk about it. #WorldMentalHealthDay

Through our collaboration with @practicalaction.bsky.social, we created this interactive map to understand how language, risk, and communication intersect in Bolivia, especially in Aymara and Tacana communities. 🇧🇴 🌎 Try out the interactive map on our website: clearglobal.org/resources/ma...

The language services and humanitarian sectors have something in common: both are going through severe changes, from the widespread use of machine technology as a replacement for humans to drastic funding cuts. The people behind these industries have been bearing the weight of these pressures.

Indigenous communities are vulnerable to climate change threats, being directly affected by high-level climate decisions.

With the recently concluded Climate Summit during the UN-General Assembly, we call for climate solutions to be inclusive and to fulfil local needs. And using the right language is crucial to fulfilling needs.