Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Workshop

Catalog description

Digital inclusion is a major issue for linguistic justice: languages are shut out of the digital sphere when their script is not formally encoded in the Unicode standard, and when fonts and keyboards and other input methods do not exist. In this workshop, students will learn about the challenges faced by digitally-disadvantaged languages, and will engage in hands-on work on a project with the Unicode Consortium that takes concrete steps towards improving digital support for one or more languages, or improves the tools, workflows, and processes used by the consortium for improving digital inclusion.