When emergency warnings, aid applications, and recovery services arrive in the wrong language, we're abandoning the communities most vulnerable to climate change. Climate action must be multilingual, or it will fail the people who need it most.

CLEAR Global believes that real impact comes from combining human expertise with scalable tools. This giving season, you can join us in building responsible AI that speaks every language, with humanity at the center. Do not let AI leave people behind. Act now. Donate today: clearglobal.org/donate

Supporting survivors of sexual violence through vital communications 🎙️ Together with Bibliothèques Sans Frontières, we produced community-focused content that offered guidance to survivors of sexual violence in the form of a podcast. Read more: clearglobal.org/supporting-s...

How can we build chatbots that are safe for girls? In this video, Aimee discusses Girl Effect's launch of Big Sis, a chatbot which was built for users, particularly girls, to ask sensitive questions in a safe environment: youtube.com/shorts/5DTDW... What do you think of this initiative? 💭

This #InternationalDayforDisasterRiskReduction, we want to highlight how Indigenous knowledge is essential to disaster preparedness, especially for communities who are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vctN...

To understand how health services can become more effective in their communication, we interviewed members of the Rohingya community about their experiences and perspectives relating to mental health, including the words they use to talk about it. #WorldMentalHealthDay

Through our collaboration with @practicalaction.bsky.social, we created this interactive map to understand how language, risk, and communication intersect in Bolivia, especially in Aymara and Tacana communities. 🇧🇴 🌎 Try out the interactive map on our website: clearglobal.org/resources/ma...

The language services and humanitarian sectors have something in common: both are going through severe changes, from the widespread use of machine technology as a replacement for humans to drastic funding cuts. The people behind these industries have been bearing the weight of these pressures.

We are excited to share that @clearglobal.org has joined #CODI! Clear Global utilizes technology and hundreds of linguists to connect with communities in 40+ countries, delivering vital information and enabling them to be heard in over 1,000 local languages. #DigitalAccess

Indigenous communities are vulnerable to climate change threats, being directly affected by high-level climate decisions.

Can answering a question with AI be more cost-effective than through a search engine? @aimeeansari.bsky.social discusses a study investigating generative AI that looks at its data usage versus regular web searches. The researchers studied how 450+ teachers in Sierra Leone used an AI chatbot:

The true purpose of language technology is enabling dignity and meaningful access to information. Our colleague Abubakar Sulaiman explains how humanitarian work can become more effective with the use of language technology. 💡 youtu.be/PnoA1Ey0dkg

An outbreak of the Ebola virus disease has been declared by the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ministry of Health in Kasai province. As of 4 September 2025, 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths had been declared.

Ensuring accurate and accessible resources for communities in Myanmar 🇲🇲 Our collaboration with Internews and @newhumanitarian.bsky.social was featured in H2H Network's report on their recent work in Myanmar.

This year, we commissioned an independent evaluation of our language technology efforts. We wanted to understand our impact as an organization focusing on low-resource language technology. 💻 Discover what we found out: clearglobal.org/our-impact-o...

Ready to implement language technology but not sure where to start? 🤔 The key is choosing the RIGHT use case. Here's a proven framework to help you identify language tech opportunities that will actually make a difference. ✨ (1/2)

The TWB Voice Playbook is a practical guide for planning and managing voice data collection projects for low-resource languages. 📄🌐🗣️ Head over to this link to go through the playbook: twbvoiceplaybook.clearglobal.org

💡 Asking this key question can lead to more equitable and inclusive social impact.

Building language technology solutions? Your choice of partner can make or break your project. Here's your guide to selecting the right language technology partner and building a winning team. From assessing expertise to ensuring alignment, these factors will set your project up for success.

Humanitarian response needs greater language inclusion. We set out to fix this in northeast Nigeria. Our CEO @aimeeansari.bsky.social shares some highlights of our work and its effects in the region over the past few years in this video. 🔗 Read the full evaluation: hubs.ly/Q03t6D9m0

🧒🏽 Imagine trying to advocate for yourself in a language you barely speak. We recently partnered with U-Report On The Move, a digital platform developed by @unicef.org to support young migrants and refugees in Italy. 🤝🏿 Read more about our collaboration: clearglobal.org/language-sup...

🤔 What is language data? In this series, Christian Resch, our Language Technology & AI Specialist, explains what language data is, how we create synthetic data, and what its limitations are. Come back to this thread for part 2 where Christian will discuss how we generate new voice data with AI. 📣

A reminder that US troops relied heavily on language pros in Afghanistan. I wrote about it in @devex.com: "The power of language is subtle. But when harnessed, it demands attention, asserting who wins, who loses, and who is left behind." www.devex.com/news/opinion... @clearglobal.org

This month, CLEAR Global was invited to host three training sessions for UNICEF Latin America and Caribbean on language and communications in protection from sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment. Thank you #UNICEFLAC for the ongoing collaboration 💙

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 20 June is #WorldRefugeeDay. At the end of April 2025, @unhcr.org reported that 122.1 million people were forcibly displaced due to persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. (1/3)

Generative AI is more likely to be "harmful" when used in low-resource languages. An article by @cohere.com, developers of #Aya, suggests that lower-resource languages have a higher rate of irrelevant generations by GPT-4, around 25-38%, as compared to high-resource languages, which are around 0-2%

🗣️ Ethical collection of language data should be the norm. @aimeeansari.bsky.social discusses the RESPIN corpus, a new database of voice data developed by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Signal Processing Interpretation and REpresentation (SPIRE) Laboratory.

When we say we help people understand information and be heard, whatever language they speak... 🤷🏿 We REALLY mean it. #language #translation #lowresourcelanguages #holyairball

In low- & middle-income countries, language is a key barrier when people try to use generative AI for health. 🚧 In this video, @aimeeansari.bsky.social discusses a white paper by @stanfordcdh.bsky.social specifically focused on the use of generative AI tools to drive health-related behavior change.

🤝🏿 We have been working closely with @interaction.org in the past year. One of the outputs of our collaboration is this report prepared by InterAction, where some of our work was featured, particularly into the critical importance of language usage in the humanitarian sector. Read the report:

🚨 In an era of escalating crises, humanitarian assistance must reach more people and do so more effectively. However, language continues to be often overlooked in delivering impactful aid, despite its critical essence.

How do you train machines to work with a language for which very little content exists? Daniel Wilson from #XRIGlobal, one of our tech partners, explains how they create #SyntheticData to enable the development of tech tools for low-resource languages 👏🏽 #AITranslation #MachineTranslation

💡 Sexual and reproductive health and rights services are essential everywhere. However, these services may not reach those who need them if they are not communicated in languages people actually speak and understand.

📢 Language is much more than a communication tool, it is a fundamental pillar for inclusive and effective risk management in indigenous communities.

🔔 We are hosting a special panel on #ELEVATE2025 🔔 This panel explores the challenges, opportunities, and innovations shaping localization for underresourced languages, which are essential for driving digital inclusion and economic participation. Secure your place: www.trados.com/events/eleva...

🚨 When most people directly affected by humanitarian emergencies don’t speak a powerful language, how can they be heard and get the information they need? (1/3)

😵‍💫 🌀 🌌 Large language models tend to hallucinate. This is especially apparent on low-resource languages, which can be seriously harmful in specific contexts.

Language data, made accessible to serve everyone! 🎉 Our CEO @aimeeansari.bsky.social & Program Development Manager Alice Castillejo were at #SkollWF last week to discuss all things language tech, like our very own Language Use Data Platform, which provides open data of languages around the world.

🏥 April 7 is World Health Day. At CLEAR Global, we help people get accurate and reliable health information, whatever language they speak. Quality research to understand people’s communication needs is essential to building effective health programs.

📊 Using quality data on the languages affected people speak is crucial to meeting their needs. Language data is just as important as age and gender data. 📝 Check out this guide on how to use language data at different stages of planning and delivering aid programs: clearglobal.org/wp-content/u...

🎉 We partnered with Kobo to make one of their courses available in French! Their #KoboToolbox Essentials Course helps users learn how to use their data tool in humanitarian response and other social impact initiatives. Read more about the translation process: clearglobal.org/advancing-da...

👀 In case you missed it: Take a first look with our colleague Lisa at the new Language Use Data Platform ✨

💡 Want to know about CLEAR Global's latest language technology developments, research, and collaboration with partners in the humanitarian and development spaces? Be the first to know by subscribing to our newsletter! ✍🏽 Sign up now: share.hsforms.com/1uhgcYL-eS0O...

🔔 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS! 🔔 💡 Our newly launched Language Use Data Platform provides open, accessible data about the languages used across the world. We currently cover over 30 countries and 1,000 languages with more being added all the time, but we can do this better together!

Language plays a critical role in ensuring people can get information and be heard - but humanitarian and development organizations often lack the data they need to know who speaks what, where, or how to assess language exclusion in their work.

Two major events from the past couple of weeks could reshape international aid and AI: 1. The launch of DeepSeek shows that powerful language models can be built with fewer resources, making AI more accessible and viable for underserved languages.

⚠️ RECRUITMENT FRAUD ALERT ⚠️ It has come to our attention that there have been individuals who claim to be CLEAR Global staff offering paid work opportunities. We advise potential job seekers to stay alert and recognize these fraudulent activities. ⛔️

💡 Are you ready to see a world where language technology is reached by anyone, whatever language they speak? 🫵🏼 We want you to be a part of it. Read the post to find out how you can take part or through our blog: clearglobal.org/we-have-a-pl...

In recent weeks, M23 rebels in DRC have made significant advances in the region of North Kivu, closing in on Goma, a vital hub for security and humanitarian operations. The most recent UN data (already a week old) points towards 237,000 people who ar forced to flee their homes in 2025 alone.

🤔 What’s Interesting in Low-Resource Language Tech? @aimeeansari.bsky.social discusses Nwulite Obodo Open Data License, a license for sharing African language datasets, developed by Data Science Law Lab at the University of Pretoria, with others in South Africa and Kenya. youtu.be/udNgVYSDCCA?...