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.
CONTRIBUTE
on Wikiversity to add more resources & translate
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
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 brings everyone home no matter how far they are. None can stay at home when the dumeng is beaten, .
OpenSpeaks in conferences
Publications and news coverage
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?”.
Creative Commons Global Summit 2021
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“.
UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2021
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.
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.”