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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
