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 […]
Pangeanic is proud to become one of the first Silver sponsors of Translators without Borders
VALENCIA, SPAIN – 15 JUNE 2011 – Pangeanic HQ and its Spanish translation office Traducciones Pangeanic has become one of Translators without Borders’ (TWB) first silver sponsors. The company has pledged its support to TWB with the aim to ensure that humanitarian translations provide access to information for more people around the world. The devastating […]