{"id":192,"date":"2012-03-05T12:08:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T12:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/05\/how-translation-can-help-eliminate-information\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T14:35:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:35:03","slug":"how-translation-can-help-eliminate-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/how-translation-can-help-eliminate-information\/","title":{"rendered":"How Translation Can Help Eliminate Information Disparities in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAccess to information is a basic human right,\u201d said former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wbi.worldbank.org\/wbi\/stories\/empowering-africans-access-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Bank Institute<\/a>, at a conference on the subject last year in Accra, Ghana.\u00a0 \u00a0Information is also power, and more and more organizations are recognizing that it will play an essential role in Africa\u2019s future. Having access to information enables people to do things like take care of their health, understand their rights, start businesses, and participate in political processes.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to information access, most of the discussions are about the delivery systems such as mobile phones, which in many parts of Africa are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/11\/weekinreview\/11giridharadas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the computing devices of choice<\/a>. Obviously, getting information into people\u2019s hands is critical. But what good is it if they cannot understand that information once they receive it? Africa is home to more than 2,000 different languages spread across six major language families \u2013 Nigeria alone has more than 500 tongues spoken within its borders.\u00a0 Some of them \u2013 such as Amharic, Berber, Hausa, Igbo, Oromo, Swahili, and Yoruba \u2013 are used by tens of millions of people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonsenseadvisory.com\/Default.aspx?Contenttype=ArticleDetAD&amp;tabID=63&amp;Aid=2164&amp;moduleId=390\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<pre><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"744\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/how-translation-can-help-eliminate-information\/nataly301-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Nataly301-1.png?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"150,150\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Nataly301\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Nataly301-1.png?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Nataly301-1.png?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-744 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Nataly301-1.png?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"blog author \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><strong>By Nataly Kelly<\/strong><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAccess to information is a basic human right,\u201d said former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, according to the\u00a0World Bank Institute, at a conference on the subject last year in Accra, Ghana.\u00a0 \u00a0Information is also power, and more and more organizations are recognizing that it will play an essential role in Africa\u2019s future. Having access to information &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/how-translation-can-help-eliminate-information\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Translation Can Help Eliminate Information Disparities in Africa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-importance-of-language"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Translation Can Help Eliminate Information Disparities in Africa - Translators without Borders Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/how-translation-can-help-eliminate-information\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Translation Can Help Eliminate Information Disparities in Africa - Translators without Borders Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cAccess to information is a basic human right,\u201d said former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, according to the\u00a0World Bank Institute, at a conference on the subject last year in Accra, Ghana.\u00a0 \u00a0Information is also power, and more and more organizations are recognizing that it will play an essential role in Africa\u2019s future. 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