What Languages Do We Use Online? The Role of Indigenous Language Digital Activists

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[ Session Name ] What Languages Do We Use Online? The Role of Indigenous Language Digital Activists [ Primary Space ] Digital Inclusion [ Secondary Space ] Web Literacy

[ Submitter's Name ] Monica Paola Bonilla Parra [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Rising Voices | Mozilla Nativo | ISUR [ Submitter's GitHub ] iNiki

[ Other Facilitator 1's Name ] Eduardo Avila [ Other Facilitator 1's GitHub ] risingvoices

[ Other Facilitator 2's Name ] Rodrigo Perez [ Other Facilitator 2's GitHub ] zapotecotrescero

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[ Language ] Spanish

[ Localisation Support Requested ] No, I can host the session myself

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What will happen in your session?

During our session we will present the Activismo Lenguas (Language Activism) project focusing on indigenous language digital activism in Latin America. Originally convened by Rising Voices, the digital inclusion initiative of Global Voices, the project has been facilitating local and regional networks of indigenous youth that are leveraging the power of the internet to to produce digital content in their own languages, in an effort to create a more linguistically diverse web.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

We will share our experiences participating in the Mozilla Open Leaders program that focused on developing the Activismo Lenguas peer learning and exchange platform for communities participating in an open and linguistically diverse web. The objective of the session will be to share lessons learned, challenges we face, and to build a model of collaboration between indigenous and non-indigenous language speakers to enable us to achieve linguistic diversity on the web.

Time needed

60 mins