The Consultation and planning workshop on African Languages and the Cyberspace which took place in Gaborone, Botswana between 21st and 22nd of June 2018, witnessed United Nations ambassadors from different countries in the continent.
The workshop focused on Computational linguistics, Broadcasting/Cloud Publicity, Folktale digitalization, Robotic language technology networking and software development, Corpus development, 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.
Recall that, a Nigeria based digital expert and founder of CEOAfrica media platform , Mr Cletus Ilobanafor delivered a lecture on ‘‘The Use of Online TV to promote African Languages and Africa as a Continent’’ at the workshop on Friday June 22.
See pictures of ambassadors at the workshop below:
Dr. Eventhough with Prof. Sheila at the workshop
CEOAfrica boss, Mr. Cletus Ilobanafor at the cyberspace workshop in Botswana
Display of cultural art works at the cyberspace workshop
Lt-Rt: Dr. Dampha Lang Fafa, the Ag. Executive Secretary of ACALAN with Prof. Ayo Bamgbose at the workshop
Another set of ambassadors in the conference room at the workshop in Botswana
Cross section of different ambassadors at the workshop
