Language Matters Reinhard Schäler Reinhard.Schaler@TheRosettaFoundation.org LIND-W EB : 1 ST F...

Language MattersReinhard Schäler

www.TheRosettaFoundation.orgReinhard.Schaler@TheRosettaFoundation.org

LIND-WEB: 1ST FORUM OF THE LANGUAGE INDUSTRY WEB PLATFORM – BRUSSELS 24 MAY 2012SHARE, COOPERATE, GROW

Boosting Cooperation – Working Towards Growth

People Matter• The crystal ball (Daniel Pink, Drive)– 1995

• The first encyclopedia comes from Microsoft• The second encyclopedia won’t come from a company

– 2010• One of these encyclopedias will be the largest and most popular n

the world and the other will be defunct. Which is which?”• Data to back it up– A trillion hours a year of participatory value are up for

grabs. (Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus)– The nonprofit sector in the US had revenues of US$1.9

trillion– The nonprofit sector generates 20% more employment

(against revenue) than the for-profit sector

Rationale Actors Filter Players KPIs

Market

$30b industryShort-term financial

ROIFinance

MicrosoftSymantec

GoogleOracle

SAP

Shareholder value

Non-market

Interest Unpaid volunteersFunded by Donourd Community

Open: Mozilla, Wikipedia,…Humanitarian: TWB, TRF,…Crowd: Adobe, Facebook,…

Uptake

Entrepr’shipTranslators work for

(notional) salaryFunders cover costs

ProposalProposal

Measurable impactTranslation loan/inv’ment

Change

Legal Req.’s Publically funded professionals

Universal fundamental Human Right

Government: EC Transl. Services, African Union, … Coverage

Exchange of Knowledge and Information makes the world a better place

Exchange of Knowledge and Information makes the world a better place

Commercial and Social Dividend

Commercial and Social Dividend

PrerequisitesLanguageH/W, S/W

Capital, Infra

Rationale Actors Filter Players KPIs

Market

Profit$30b industry

Short-term financial ROI

Finance

MicrosoftSymantec

GoogleOracle

SAP

Shareholder value

Non-market

Unpaid volunteersFunded by Donors Community

Open: Mozilla, Wikipedia,…Humanitarian: TWB, TRF,…Crowd: Adobe, Facebook,…

Uptake

Translators work for (notional) salary

Funders cover costsProposal

EntrepreneurMeasurable impact

Translation loan/inv’mentChange

Legal Req.’s Publically funded professionals

Universal fundamental Human Right

Government: EC Transl. Services, African Union, … Coverage

Exchange of Knowledge and Information makes the world a better place

Exchange of Knowledge and Information makes the world a better place

Commercial and Social Dividend

Commercial and Social Dividend

PrerequisitesLanguageH/W, S/W

Capital, Infra

We in Africa do not want to participate in a globalized world in which we have nothing to offer. We need to be able to speak to the world and the world needs to be able to speak to us.

(Tunde Adegbola, African Languages Technology Initiative)

Language Matters

We wanted to eradicate poverty by giving money, but we learned very quickly that poverty

is much more complex than this.(John Dada, Fantsuam Foundation)

Language Matters

Empower peopleto develop their solutions

to their problems

Language Matters

A Handup –Not a Handout