Thank you very much Radhika! Every donation counts <3 We tend to be sceptical about AI at GV, and in general one of the criticisms of LLMs is that they are trained on mostly American English and stumble a lot with even languages as widely spoken as Spanish. This is partly why we see localization in AI creation also I feel, I think I just saw something yesterday about a Latin American alternative to chat GPT? Nevertheless, thank you for the link--I will share with Subha and the others working on Indigenous languages in India!
Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ameyann> On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 at 02:33, Yeddanapudi Radhika via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ameya et al! Just contributed in a small way to Global Voices. I was > wondering if you know of any indigenous-led efforts in India to use AI to > revitalize, restore, and preserve language. I read the story on the Global > Voices site about Bultoo Radio (brilliant local name!) but that effort has > the advantage of having many speakers. I'm thinking of efforts more like > what Danielle Boyer has done: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLRLyt5Ux7I > > Cheers. > Radhika > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM Ameya Nagarajan via Silklist < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Silklisters (S-listers?) >> >> Some of you know me, some of you don't. I'll admit I'm really more a >> lurker here than a talker, but I am delurking to ask for help. >> >> I am the Managing Editor of Global Voices <http://www.globalvoices.org>, >> a non profit that publishes news from the global south in many many >> languages. Most of our writers and translators are volunteers, people who >> really believe in how important it is to get this news out into the world, >> to cross linguistic barriers and help people understand that really, most >> of us have the same problems, and actually we need to band together against >> digital >> authoritarianism >> <https://advox.globalvoices.org/special/unfreedom-monitor/> more than >> distrust regular people from one country over. >> >> GV and our partners work to defend the independence of the media >> <http://advox.globalvoices.org>, the openness of the internet, and the >> right of everyone, everywhere, to free expression. Our multilingual >> newsroom publishes in 5 languages and stories are translated into over >> 30 others <https://lingua.globalvoices.org/>. We work with Indigenous >> activists >> <https://rising.globalvoices.org/blog/2025/06/17/join-us-online-meeting-to-highlight-digital-initiatives-for-adivasi-languages-of-india/> >> to decolonize the internet and digitize their languages, and raise >> awareness of digital security. We are able to run really great projects, >> like the climate justice fellowship >> <https://globalvoices.org/special/global-voices-climate-justice-fellowship-2025/> >> that pairs Sinophone journalists and global south journalists to write >> investigative pieces about China's presence in other countries and the >> climate impacts of it. >> >> We've been around for twenty years, and in 2025 we've been very badly hit >> by Trump's funding cuts and their cascading consequences. We are a very >> low-cost organization, with no office and few operating costs, and most of >> our funding goes directly into staff pay. >> >> At a time when many for-profit media organizations are struggling, Global >> Voices’ production and readership have been going up -- but since we are >> committed to never paywalling and not showing ads, that doesn’t translate >> into covering our running costs. >> >> The four years I have worked at Global Voices have transformed me, my >> understanding of the world, and my faith in humanity. Yes, working in the >> news in the past four years I have managed to have my faith in humanity >> restored. That is the power of Global Voices. I can find another job, but I >> don't know if we can ever build another Global Voices. Our mission is now >> more urgent than ever. Please help us keep going! Donate if you can >> <https://globalvoices.org/donate/>, and share in your networks. >> >> I apologize if this was not a good forum for this plea, but we're >> desperate! Here are some recent stories that give you a sense of what we >> do, pulled from the newsletter: >> >> Truth-to-power stories, like this one about an Australian journalist >>> punished for her post on Gaza >>> <https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad999&id=c2f49b4088&e=ff64988260> >>> or this one about Turkey's political oppression >>> <https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad999&id=643f270485&e=ff64988260>, >>> remind me how much courage there is among journalists and activists. Other >>> stories remind me about the complexity of the world beyond the headlines >>> that are screamed over and over in my feed, like this one about Uzbekistan's >>> football team >>> <https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad999&id=643f270485&e=ff64988260>, >>> or this one about the de-colonialization of the official language in >>> Niger >>> <https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad999&id=55d6b513e3&e=ff64988260>. >>> And then there are the articles that remind me of the joy in the world, >>> like this one about International Reggae Day >>> <https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad999&id=3dafc036e2&e=ff64988260>, >>> this one about using K'iche’ Maya glyphs to reconnect art and language >>> <https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad999&id=86ae3f66e8&e=ff64988260>, >>> or the new special coverage about migration and belonging >>> <https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad999&id=a5bd592612&e=ff64988260> >>> . >> >> >> >> Cordially, >> Ameya Nagarajan >> (she/her) >> >> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ameyann> >> >> >> >> -- >> Silklist mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >> > > > -- > *Translator/Owner* > *AzulIndica Translations* > *North Vancouver BC, Canada* > > > > > > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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