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The BBC appears to be thinking seriously about using translation to connect its global audience online.
On Thursday the World Service hosted a cross-language discussion between English, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Persian, Indonesian and Spanish speakers with Google’s Machine Translation service providing translations.
What ensued was a bizarre disjointed discussion about nothing much in particular, resembling a collection of spam attacks.
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I read a great post today on Global Voices Advocacy presenting the incredible power of Twitter as a mechanism for enabling communication and better networking despite state repression.
So much is said about Twitter, but not a huge amount about its emerging role in the Middle East. So it’s great to see this conversation emerge. It will no doubt enrich and forward the ‘what have bloggers done for the Middle East’ discussion – which has started to feel stale.
But two important caveats need to be made about Twitter in the Middle East before we simply assume that it already plays a critical social role.
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Google has admitted it faces major challenges in widening access to the internet in the Arab World.
Limited infrastructure and language problems in the Middle East hinder access to the best of what the web has to offer, the search engine said in launch post of the Google Arabia blog.
With just one percent of all internet content in Arabic, Middle East audiences still have some way to go before they can enjoy the breadth of content other language communities have access to.
