Shared vision
Partners
A world where all people have equal opportunities in their own language.
We get there by partnering, building coalitions and working together — “a broad, multi-stakeholder alliance for digital cooperation”, as the 2019 UN report on digital cooperation put it. It is the surest path to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Organizations we work with 16
- The International Year of Indigenous Languages is a UNESCO initiative.sites.google.com
- PanLex is the world’s largest lexical translation database.panlex.org
- Human Language Technology deals with linguistics and language technology.hlt.bme.hu
- Ideas Beyond Borders empowers individuals often suppressed by authoritarian regimes and dictatorships.ideasbeyondborders.org
- Pen Zambia runs an extensive program of literary events.pen-international.org
- The Enactus team of the University of Houston works with our Sunuwar language pilot.enactusuh.org
- The Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters is a certifying body.cchicertification.org
- ProZ Pro Bono is a volunteer-driven initiative that allows language professionals to help those in need through their expertise.prozprobono.world
- The Endangered Languages Project is a collaborative online space.endangeredlanguages.com
- The Script Encoding Initiative focus is in modern minority languages.sei.berkeley.edu
- The Localization Research Center (LRC) is located at the University of Limerick.localisation.ie
- The Algonquian Linguistic Atlas is an on-line, multimedia atlas of Algonquian languages.atlas-ling.ca
- The Mozilla Foundation supports and leads the open source Mozilla project.foundation.mozilla.org
- Cielo deals with indigenous language rights and cultural mediation.mycielo.org
- South Plug is a platform of projects related to music and art, from the south of the world.southplug.cl
- Keyman is a free and open source multilingual keyboard system which allows you to build and share keyboard layouts for any language. Keyman already supports over 2,500 languages and more are contributed every weekkeyman.com
“What if we could make a bigger difference than anything we’ve done so far?”
Everyone in Translation Commons is committed to this vision. We pledge to be the coordinating force between all of us — to connect and channel our expertise where, when and how it is needed.