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 […]
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 […]
Architekst announces sponsorship of Translators without Borders
Moregem – 23 December 2016. Architekst, a Belgium-based language services provider, is pleased to announce that we have pledged our support to help humanitarian translations reach more people around the world by becoming a bronze sponsor of Translators without Borders. Translators without Borders (TWB) strives to provide people access to vital, often life-saving, information in […]
Translators without Borders Announces Bronze Sponsor Wieners+Wieners
Danbury, CT, USA – 21 December 2016. One of the world’s leading non-profit translation organizations, Translators without Borders is pleased to announce Wieners+Wieners GmbH, a language service provider for high-quality translations, adaptions, proofreading and editing, have pledged support to help humanitarian translations reach more people around the world by becoming a bronze sponsor. Translators without […]
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 […]
Translators without Borders develops the world’s first crisis-specific machine translation system for Kurdish languages
DANBURY, CT USA – 21 November 2016. Translators without Borders (TWB) has developed offline machine translation (MT) engines for Sorani and Kurmanji, specifically for translating content for refugees. Sorani and Kurmanji are the two main languages spoken by Kurdish refugees; the data used to build the systems came from the work that TWB has done […]
The first ever Humanitarian Interpreter Roster deploys in Greece
By Lali Foster, Communications Manager European refugee crisis response One of the things I love about my job here in Greece is that I get to meet the dedicated people who are deployed to TWB’s Humanitarian Interpreter Roster. Since TWB started deploying interpreters to work with our partner organizations in Greece in July, I have […]
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 […]