"We Ain’t Just Cooking Jollof Rice, We Are Building AfricaNLP!"😍

1/ Gone are the days of looking for African language keyboards/dictionaries. With our linking and tagging, we are making it super easy to find keyboards and dictionaries for your African language.

Please see this postdoc opportunity from our DS-I Africa Network colleagues MADIVA, based in Kenya and South Africa. The link to apply: bit.ly/3mIBqV8

Thank you Michael Zimmer for your work as editor, putting this impressive collection together.

Honored to be profiled on the AU SOC PhD in Communication "Achievements" page. Thank you, junki nakahara (@j-nakahara.bsky.social) for interviewing me. I'm proud to be among the scholars emerging from this wonderful PhD program. bit.ly/3d3lsmV Kathryn Montgomery RS Zaharna L.E.D. Deen Freelon @[email protected]

We're honored to have you as an alumna, Dr. Zaugg!

Happy to see this article out in Other Worlds, highlighting some of the amazing contributions of the Ethiopic digital vanguard such as Daniel Yacob, Fesseha Atlaw, & Yitna Firdyiwek

📹Watch the full video of the launch of #GreSIS The Organisation of Southern Cooperation #OSC launched the Greater South Information System (GreSIS) digital platform on 13 February during a ceremony at the Ethiopian Science Museum in Addis Ababa. The full video here➡️

#GreSIS stands as a ground-breaking digital, open-access, and collaborative hub of academic and endogenous knowledge. Developed by the #OSC, the Greater South Information System aims to democratise access to, and the production of, knowledge in the Global South. It is a tool

“#GreSIS is built from collective efforts, it’s about our knowledge, that endogenous #knowledge of our ancestors, of our people. GreSIS is a connector for our countries of the South.” Shumet Gizaw OSC Under-Secretary-General for Technological Innovation and Digitalisation

Discover more about the Greater South Information System #GreSIS here: gresis.osc.int

With more than 40% of the world’s languages at risk of disappearing by the end of this century, the book brings together experts and scholars to explore what global language justice means in the face of the climate crisis. From socioeconomic transformations to digital vitality,

Challenging conventional notions of linguistic diversity, the #OSC Book Talk series celebrates the power of diversity in tackling ecological crises and advancing justice worldwide for a more equitable and sustainable future, of equality and solidarity for humanity, to shape the

I was delighted to present a Book Talk on #GlobalLanguageJustice, and particularly Language Justice in the Digital Sphere, at Organisation of Southern Cooperation - OSC. Thought-provoking questions from colleagues were the highlight for me.