BBC Media Action, Internews, and Translators without Borders are working together to improve two-way communication between the Rohingya refugees, the host communities and the humanitarian actors. What Matters? provides a snapshot of feedback received from affected community members, to assist sectors to better plan and implement relief activities with communities’ needs and preferences in mind. […]
Communications Dashboard: Internally Displaced People in Northeast Nigeria
This dashboard is an interactive tool to help humanitarian organizations better plan their communication strategies and language support. Developed by Translators without Borders, in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) team in Maiduguri, the dashboard can help aid workers make data-informed decisions to communicate with and support the crisis-affected […]
Papua New Guinea Earthquake – Crisis Language Map
On 25 February 2018, a M7.5 earthquake struck the island of Papua New Guinea, displacing over 26,000 residents and leaving 270,000 people in need of assistance. At least 53 people have died as a result of landslides and structural collapse. Women, men, and children who have had to leave their homes speak a variety of […]
AdHoc Translations becomes a TWB sponsor – because language matters
DANBURY, CT USA – 23 June 2017. AdHoc Translations has announced that it will become a bronze sponsor of Translators without Borders (TWB). The company says it is proud to support TWB and its ongoing work to make knowledge accessible to all, through language. US-based non-profitTranslators without Borders strives to provide people access to vital, […]
Translators without Borders announces the winners of its 2017 Access to Knowledge Awards
DANBURY, CT, USA – 28 February 2017. Translators without Borders (TWB) has announced the winners of its fourth Translators without Borders Access to Knowledge Awards. The awards recognize individuals or organizations that have contributed outstanding work that exemplifies TWB’s mission to increase access to knowledge. The Access to Knowledge Awards were created by the US-based […]
TWB expands board to better reflect breadth of stakeholders
DANBURY, CT USA – 13 December 2016. Translators without Borders (TWB) announces the appointment of three new board members who will work with the current board to increase access to information in the right languages. The new board members are Nigel Fisher, former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General; Iris Orriss, Head of Internationalization at Facebook; and […]
The Humanitarian Innovation Fund announces TWB as a winner of its innovation initiative.
DANBURY, CT USA – 18 October 2016. Translators without Borders is honored to be one of three innovation teams selected by the Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) to accelerate our journey to scale. The TWB Words of Relief program, first piloted in 2013 and 2014, with an initial HIF grant, has grown significantly, providing translation and […]
Translators without Borders wins Microsoft Hackathon Award
DANBURY, CT USA –31 August 2016. The Translators without Borders (TWB) Words of Relief project has been named as an award winner in the 2016 Microsoft //oneweek Hackathon in the non-profit category. The Microsoft Hackathon is a global event that brings Microsoft employees together to create, innovate and hack on ideas that inspire them. Microsoft […]
50,000 medical articles freely available off-line
Danbury, CT, USA – 16 August 2016 – Community health workers who understand Arabic, Chinese or English now have access to thousands of articles on their phones, off-line for free. Translators without Borders, the Wiki Project Med Foundation and Wikimedia Switzerland have announced the launch of the Arabic and Chinese version of the offline medical […]
3.3 million people accessing vital medical information every month
Danbury, CT, USA – 09 August 2016. Translators without Borders (TWB) and the Wiki Project Med Foundation are partnering to ensure that critical healthcare information reaches an estimated to 3.3 million people every month. Since the partnership began in 2012, 1,900 medical articles have been made accessible on local-language Wikipedias, with TWB providing the translations […]
Mirko Plitt appointed TWB’s Head of Technology
DANBURY, CT USA – 16 June 2016. Mirko Plitt appointed TWB’s Head of Technology. Mirko Plitt, one of the foremost experts in the industrial use of machine translation and other language technologies has joined Translators without Borders (TWB) as Head of Technology. TWB strives to find innovative technology solutions that can help provide people with […]
Pangeanic announces the renewal of its Translators without Borders Silver sponsorship
DANBURY, CT, USA – 30 September 2012. Pangeanic, a translation company based in Valencia (Spain) and its Spanish translation office, are pleased to announce the renewal of their Silver sponsorship of Translators without Borders in an ongoing commitment to ensure that humanitarian translations provide key information to people in need around the world. Commenting on […]