ACALAN @acalan-au.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Hiring the next generation of leadership for African Languages: jobs.au.int/job/Executiv...jobs.au.intExecutive Secretary (ACALAN)Executive Secretary (ACALAN) 000
ACALAN @acalan-au.bsky.social · 12/05/2025The view of African languages from low-Earth orbit: www.linkedin.com/posts/clear-...linkedin.com🗣️ “There are a billion and half people speaking in Africa and they have… | CLEAR Global🗣️ “There are a billion and half people speaking in Africa and they have almost nothing for their own languages, although those are the languages they use every day.” Martin Benjamin joins Aimee Ansa... 000
ACALAN @acalan-au.bsky.social · 28/02/2025This is TODAY - still 4 hours to register. You are invited to a Zoom meeting. When: Feb 28, 2025 02:00 PM Nairobi zoom.us/meeting/regi... 001
ACALAN @acalan-au.bsky.social · 25/02/2025The language technology platform for Africa that ACALAN is questing to implement, being revealed at the UNESCO #LT4all conference (Language Technology for All) in Paris. #indigenouslanguages 034
Reposted by ACALANkamusi.org @kamusi.org · 25/02/2025Experts and stakeholders from around the world are meeting in Paris today regarding Language Technology for the billions who speak languages other than the usual suspects. Today's program at UNESCO #LT4all conference www.lt4all2025.eu/full-program... #indigenouslanguages 023
Reposted by ACALANkamusi.org @kamusi.org · 12/02/2025Recalling this rather glowing BBC piece from a few years back: www.bbc.com/news/technol.... Tech jobs in Africa are great when they have concern for fairness and well being, not when they are the cheapest way to extract max human labor. kamu.si/introducing-kamfupi - I hope we're better in Nairobi!!bbc.comWhy Big Tech pays poor Kenyans to teach self-driving carsThe data that powers the most cutting edge technology in Silicon Valley begins in Nairobi's slum. 101
Reposted by ACALANkamusi.org @kamusi.org · 05/02/2025🤔 What’s Interesting in Low-Resource Language Tech? Aimee Ansari discusses Nwulite Obodo Open Data License, a license for sharing African language datasets. Developed by Data Science Law Lab at the University of Pretoria, with others in South Africa and Kenya. www.linkedin.com/posts/aimee-...linkedin.comAimee Ansari on LinkedIn: What’s Interesting in Low-Resource Language Tech: Nwulite Obodo Open Data…Data licensing doesn't sound interesting, but I could do a whole series on just this! Here's a really interesting initiative from the Data Science Law Lab… 022
Reposted by ACALANkamusi.org @kamusi.org · 05/02/2025Cheetah, an open-source toolkit developed by UBC-NLP, focusing on Natural Language Processing for African languages. Cheetah works *experimentally* in 517 African languages, a step on the road toward equitable NLP for non-lucrative languages. www.linkedin.com/posts/clear-...linkedin.comCLEAR Global on LinkedIn: #languageinclusion #lowresourcetech🚀 What’s Interesting in Low-Resource Language Tech? 🤔 Welcome to our newest monthly series where we showcase recent advancements and insights into… 021
Reposted by ACALANkamusi.org @kamusi.org · 16/01/2025Business Daily Africa: Harnessing power of language, tech to boost SME digital trade kamu.si/language-tec...kamu.siHarnessing power of language, tech to boost SME digital tradeLooking at the digital technologies powering e-commerce in the 21st century, one might be led to assume that a handful of global languages suffice for trade and communication. 001
ACALAN @acalan-au.bsky.social · 15/01/2025The African Languages group on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/46760... 000
Reposted by ACALANkamusi.org @kamusi.org · 14/01/2025Mostly for Africans... Are you positioned to go through the language list for your country and find errors in what is included? Languages might be • missing • double-listed with alternate names • listed with an alternate name instead of the primary • not a local mother tongue kamu.si/country-grid...kamu.siCountry Grid - Languages in Africa 011
Reposted by ACALANPirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Tanzania has a population of 62,000,000. 0.09 dental personnel per 10,000 people. That is, about 1 dentist for every 6 million people. My first thought on looking up the stat was, "It can't be THAT bad, can it?" 453
Reposted by ACALANkamusi.org @kamusi.org · 24/12/2024A first attempt to list every language spoken in Africa, per country. Please be brutal in finding things to fix! kamu.si/country-grid...kamu.siCountry Grid - Languages in Africa 143
ACALAN @acalan-au.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Courtesy of an ACALAN language and technology expert on our Committee for African Languages in Cyberspace... 000
ACALAN @acalan-au.bsky.social · 05/12/2024The Kam4D matrix will sit as the data core of the comprehensive and interactive platform that ACALAN has planned for African languages, for which we are currently mobilizing resources. 000
ACALAN @acalan-au.bsky.social · 04/12/2024We are proud to endorse and participate in the upcoming Language Technology for All conference, 24 - 26 February. Advancing Humanism through Language Technologies Paris, UNESCO Headquarters www.lt4all2025.eu www.lt4all2025.eu/endorsers #lt4all2025lt4all2025.euLT4All 2025 – Language Technologies for All 000
ACALAN @acalan-au.bsky.social · 27/11/2024A "universal translator" that ignores African languages is not "universal" - it excludes 1.5 billion people from view. "Lara's error rate is just 2.4 per thousand words" does not apply to African languages, where the error rate is 1000/1000 words. translated.com/the-power-of...translated.comThe Power of LanguagesToday, we held a unique event exploring the power of languages and our progress towards a universal translator. We introduced Lara, the world's best translation AI, along with new tools to support tra... 000
ACALAN @acalan-au.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Most linguistic data for most African languages has not been digitized in any meaningful way. Yet most of the tiny attention - research and funding - to digital tools for African languages is fixated on AI If LLMs bug out for languages with large language data, what happens where the data is small? 0216
ACALAN @acalan-au.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Welcome to ACALAN on BlueSky. We look forward to discussions regarding African languages! 020
