Half of the world’s languages are in danger!
At OpenSpeaks, we are working with communities to co-design open resources for indigenous, endangered and other marginalized languages.
Resources
LEARN
from toolkit for language digital activists
CONSENT, COPYRIGHT & OPEN LICENSING
MULTIMEDIA RECORDING GUIDE
METADATA COLLECTION & PUBLICATION
ACCESSIBILITY CONTRIBUTE
to Wikiversity with more resources & translations
OpenSpeaks was originally incubated inside Wikimedia Commons—Wikipedia’s sister project. Like all open projects, it is now maintained by the Wikiversity (another Wikipedia sister project) volunteer community. You can add relevant information, resources and translations.
Supported by
National Geographic Society grant, 2017
Creative Commons CAF grant
Mozilla Open Leadership Series Round 5, 2017
MJ Bear Fellowship 2017, Online News Association
Documentaries made using OpenSpeaks Framework
Gyani Maiya
TRAILER | Language: Kusunda
All her tribespeople left the nomadic life — to settle in villages — and their mother tongue Gi Mihaq. Who will keep the language alive?
Mage Porob
TRAILER | Language: Ho
Mage Porob brings everyone home no matter how far they are. None can stay at home when the dumeng is beaten, .
OpenSpeaks in conferences
Mozilla Festival 2021
Creative Commons Global Summit 2019, Lisbon, Portugal
Wikimania 2019, Stockholm, Sweden
Celtic Knot 2018, Wales, UK
Mozilla Festival 2018, London, UK
Publications and news coverage
Building a Public Domain Voice Database for Odia
[Journal article] A Companion Proceeding of presentation at the Web Conference 2022 that details the background of building the largest voice data for the Odia language.
Young people, social inclusion and digitalisation. Emerging knowledge for practice and policy
[Chapter in the Youth Knowledge book] We contributed a Chapter (no. 6) titled “Can openness and open standards help revitalise marginalised languages?”.
UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2020
Joined panel “Data to Inclusion: Building datasets in African Languages” to share use of Openness for protection of indigenous languages and higher focus on digital rights of communities.
Creative Commons Global Summit 2020
An interactive session on “building consent from bottom up” for open culture and open licensing, and a discussion on “How social justice initiatives can further Creative Commons“.
We underlined in this panel for growing digital rights knowhow among indigenous groups, more media and information literacy, protection of indigenous knowledge and ensuring for (indigenous) community agency on research outcomes involving them.
[News feature] “Through this initiative, the team is attempting to document the almost-forgotten languages of India. What’s more? They have received a grant from National Geographic to specifically document three to four endangered languages of South Asia.”