Civic Tech Field Guide

Carbyne Live Audio Translation

Govtech vendor whose live audio translation has been used to translate 911 calls in realtime

Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP)

Alexandria, VA

The Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships is the first new NSF directorate in 30 years and "advances use-inspired and translational research in all fields of science and engineering, giving rise to new industries and engaging all Americans — regardless of background or location — in the pursuit of new, high-wage jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)."

STEM

재단법인 팩트체크넷 (Fact Check Net Foundation)

Republic of South Korea (Hanguk or Namhan)

South Korean fact-checking organization, supported by government during the pandemic but now shut down

Indigenius

Lagos

Indigenius Keyboard is a smart, multilingual keyboard supporting inclusive digital communication in 180+ Languages.

CDIAL

Lagos

Digitizing Local Languages, Localizing Digital access for 1 Billion Africans

Tolgee

Czech Republic (Ceska Republika)

Open-source developer & translator friendly localization platform

Weblate

Copylefted libre software, used by over 2,500 libre software projects and companies in over 165 countries.

Meta's Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) model

Our Massively Multilingual Speech AI research models can identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than any known previous technology. These models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100.

Facebook

Synesthesia

Text to video, translation

Are We Together?

Ethiopia (Ityop'iya)

The findings from our study are intended to provide insights to developers and designers to improve the accessibility and inclusivity of digital platforms from the perspective of language.

reports

Name Reclaim

ReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as errors.

Common Voice

Mozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.

2023 Webby Awards

Language & Coloniality: Non-Dominant Languages in the Digital Landscape

This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.

reports

Convey911

United States of America (the)

Enabling public safety, law enforcement and government services to communicate in any language over text, video, and voice.

Hyperaudio

A new way of looking at audio and video. Transcribe, translate, repurpose and share.

Tarjimly

Mountain View, CA, USA

Millions of refugees & people in need of humanitarian assistance struggle with language barriers. Help give them on-demand language access. Volunteer with Us

CV Project

Trento

An open source Android app to drive data donations to Mozilla's Common Voice project

apps

Weglot

Translate your website - Multilingual for WordPress, Shopify and more

extensions

مبادرة تغريدات (Taghreedat)

Middle East and North Africa

Taghreedat (Arabic: مبادرة تغريدات) is the largest Arabic crowdsourcing initiative in the MENA region.

Why We Need to Change the Way We Write About Africa

A storyteller’s guide to reframing Africa

guides

Localize JS

Easily translate dynamic websites & apps while eliminating tedious file transfers from your localization workflow.

Transifex

Transifex is the world's largest localization community for open source projects

Uchaguzi 2022

Kenya

Election monitoring project of volunteer digital response teams for the upcoming Kenyan elections in August 2022

सङ्ग्रह (Collection)

Nepal

The collection is a digital collection of literary works written in Nepali and other languages of Nepal.

Global Language Data Review

This Global Language Data Review sets out what language data you need for planning, where you can find it, and how you can help build the body of data to support inclusive services.

7000 Languages

745 Atlantic Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

We create free language-learning software for Indigenous communities around the world.

Talk to Taiwan: Behind the Scenes

Participation Officer 101

캠페이너 인생게임 | 툴킷 (Campaigner Life Game)

Republic of South Korea (Hanguk or Namhan)

An IRL game where you try to recruit 1,000 supporters to your campaign

Intervozes

Brazil (Brasil)

Intervozes – Coletivo Brasil de Comunicação Social is an organisation that works for the realisation of the human right to communication in Brazil.

Translation and linguistic representation

Villgro Africa

Kenya

Villgro Africa addresses the lack of access to quality and affordable health services & technologies in Africa by investing in innovations with the potential for scalable and sustainable business models and by offering technical assistance to entrepreneurs.

Good health and well-being

Assembl

Paris, France

Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.

Whose Knowledge

We are a global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet.

Translators Without Borders

Translators without Borders is a global community of over 100,000 members helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak.

g0v Hong Kong

Hong Kong

g0vhk 受台灣「零時政府」（g0v.tw）的理念啟發。目的是透過技術解決社會問題，以項目形式推動社會進步。以開放數據為例，透過開放源碼程式編寫 (Open Source Program) 或群眾外包 (Crowd Sourcing) ，令不同範疇的數據透明化，解決資訊不流通問題，以擴大公民的知情權。

NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K)

Washington, DC

Rasm.io

Tehran

رسمیو(لیلاک سابق) موتور جستجوی اشخاص و شرکت‌ها است که بر مبنای آگهی‌های روزنامه رسمی کشور ایجاد شده است. رسمیو با تحلیل روزنامه رسمی کشور و ایجاد خروجی معنادار، دسترسی به اطلاعات شرکت‌های ایرانی را راحت کرده است.

Defusor

Factory 619, 66 bis Avenue Salah Ben Youssef, Tunis, Tunisia

We leverage both AI and Human Expertise to allow everyone to check facts, understand News sources and content, empower truth and consolidate responsible Brands and Media in the MENA region.

extensions

Crowdin

Crowdin is a localization project management platfom and translation tool for developers and website owners. We make it easy to work with content being translated using our collaboration platform.