Upcoming Program

Artificial Intelligence Development for Minority Language Resilience and Revival.

We are set to lose over half the earth’s 7000 languages by the end of this century.

If we continue at the rate of loss:  one language lost every two weeks on average. 

But what is contained in those languages? Are they merely “translations” of the major spoken languages on the planet: Chinese, English, Spanish, Russian, Hindi, Arabic, etc?

It’s obvious — “no”. There is much more contained in many of the vanishing languages. Knowledge about undocumented plant species, regenerative agricultural methods, music, peace-making strategies, parenting models, land management, low-impact architecture, medicine and much more. 

As we enter the exponential curve of AI tool development and adoption, there is an opportunity to use AI for minority language resilience and revival. This not only is a crucial component of indigenous data sovereignty and governance; but could be a tool used by speakers to speed up safeguarding their languages and strengthening their communities.

This program, different than Data Warriors, aims at minority language resilience and revival.

The extinction of a language results in the irrecoverable loss of unique cultural knowledge embodied in it for centuries, including historical, spiritual and ecological knowledge that may be essential for the survival of not only its speakers, but also countless others.

– UNESCO

Join us at the Earth Codes Observatory as we partner with researchers, universities, organizations like Wikitongues, and above all indigenous communities who themselves decide to digitize, bolster or revive their languages. This is a formidable challenge with much work to be done to digitize, parse, package, tag data — making human knowledge usable to AI.