The two days’ Consultation and planning workshop on African Languages and Cyberspace, organized by the African Union in Garorone, Botswana has fully commenced today, June 21.
The United Nations Ambassador and the founder of CEOAfrica media platform Mr. Cletus Ilobanafor is at the workshop with other digital experts from different continent all over the world.
The Nigerian based digital expert will be delivering a lecture on ‘‘The Use of Online TV to promote African Languages and Africa as a Continent’’ at the workshop tomorrow, June 22.
The focus of the workshop is on Computational linguistics, Broadcasting/Cloud Publicity, Folktale digitalization, Robotic language technology networking and software development, Corpus development and many more, in order to surmount the challenges facing the lack of effective presence of African languages on the cyberspace and determine the way forward to increase their presence and apply human language technology to them.