This year, we’re fortunate to be there at the Creative Commons Summit 2019 at Lisbon, Portugal. We presented a talk about OpenSpeaks titled—”OpenSpeaks: Open Archives of the Voices of the Commons“.
Abstract
Half of world’s languages (6500) might be dead in a century’s time (UNESCO). Languages — not just a tool for communications, but a device for political/social freedom and expression of nuances of a society. A dying language can wipe off the cultures of the native speakers if not documented in an accessible format.
OpenSpeaks in an open, global, participatory platform for communities to learn about digital-documentation of languages with focus on endangered ones funded by NatGeo and supported by Mozilla Open Leaders Series. This workshop will be a hands-on session for citizen archivists.
We’re really excited to be at the ##ccsummit this year. Our @subhapa is speaking about documenting underrepresented languages the open way using @OpenSpeaks on Saturday: https://t.co/DHN4GHIdiu https://t.co/zMBOyqm08I
— O Foundation (OFDN) (@ofdnorg) May 9, 2019
@subhapa talking about archiving dying languages under open licenses at #ccsummit pic.twitter.com/mm2NVSGUIQ
— O Foundation (OFDN) (@ofdnorg) May 11, 2019
Would you let a language die? Come join us to discuss about documenting underrepresented languages TOMORROW 9:45am – 10:25am, New Delhi Room #ccsummit https://t.co/m43cA4xrRI #ccsummit2019 #indigenouslanguages #iyil2019
— OpenSpeaks (@OpenSpeaks) May 10, 2019
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