LTCT 2019 Kenya

It was a blessing to have Language Technology workers from Anglo-Lusophone Africa come to Nairobi Kenya for another training event. It has been 8 serious days of training, team teaching, problem solving and looking at the growth plans of every participant to see what progress they have made in the past year. It was also a moment to work with software developers.
This year our principal focus was on ParaTExt 9 which is still in beta, it might be released in May. We also worked more on Bloom, Regular Expressions, Reading App Builder, Dictionary App Builder, Premer Pro etc.
Getting to Nairobi was quite a concern for us and for many, it is truly a big thank you to God for protecting them from the plane crash from Ethiopia to Nairobi.
As we leave here and head back, there is a lot that we need to continue to do to promote, advocate, consult and support language technology so that the work of Bible Translation and Language development may speed up in the different areas that we serve.

Digital Literacy Workshop

February 26, 27, and 28, I was invited to Bamenda to teach how to use Bloom and Reading App Builder. It was an excited time with the literacy specialists and consultant as they are focusing on making more and more digital literacy materials. This is going to advance their literacy work in the Anglophone region as more and more people are getting displaced. This is also going to make literacy and Bible Translation work faster as people from different communities who live in the diaspora can easily engage with reading and writing in their mother language.