In the beginning, let me ask you a question.
Who uses Google search engine?
Or search engine “Google”.
That’s normal, is not it?
Well, when you use any of us to search engine and write the word “Sudan,”
We find that this is a sample of expected results.
Each of these four images reflects an issue or a very negative story.
This is our online content, as well as text and video articles.
This is negative and does not reflect our reality. We are much better.
What we need to do is create positive content to match the negative content before us.
We can not solve all these issues, but we can create the positive content I am talking about.
Through OTP
OTP is the abbreviation for the open TED project for translation.
The project began in 2009 after uploading TED videos online in 2006
Then came the need to translate these conversations from English into all local languages around the world.
In order for everyone to benefit from the positive content you provide.
At the TED community’s desire in 2009, the open TED project began to be translated.
In which content is translated into Arabic or Hindi and various other languages.
The year 2012 was the beginning of a new phase to translate local TEDx talks like this event now.
This is a very terrible spread for all the videos of different languages around the world.
The translations spread beyond the wildfire, and it was a very special event.
It is important that the project today includes more than 26 thousand volunteer translators,
Their mission is to translate conversations from English into your native language.
These translates to more than 113 languages and has actually found translated conversations for more than 100 languages.
Imagine a volunteer project where a conversation is translated into more than 100 languages without any fee.
This is one of the huge volunteer projects that are managed remotely.
I may be dealing with people I do not know, but the result is a high-quality job.
So far, 108,000 translated jobs have been completed, a very large number.
We come to the important question, why do we say this?
What is the relationship between the images you presented and the open TED project for translation?
Well, this project can help us as Sudanese to provide very important positive content.
Since 2011, the first TEDx conference in Sudan,
A huge number of online conversations have been raised,
You do not find one video with negative content, I mean our Sudanese talks.
If we can translate it into English, that will be very important.
Two things are needed:
First: As Sudanese translators within the TED project,
We need to do more and translate our content entirely into English.
Followed by another stage, which is translated into all living languages around the world.
Second: We need to know everyone, especially the presence here this project
And that there is a Sudanese community within this huge volunteer project that we are dealing with today.
What we want when you see a conversation for TED is to find out who translated or reviewed it
Is a Sudanese person belonging to us that feel proud to have given this knowledge to everyone.
Actually, even if you do not know English you can participate in this huge project,
To convert this content from the colloquial language that we speak to the classical Arabic language,
So that another can be translated into English and then to all other languages, which is the real beginning.
One of the important things I would like to mention is that we are talking about this huge project,
That the owner of the highest rate translations of English into Arabic and holds the title of “Director”
Which arguably runs the Arabic language team, is a Sudanese who belongs to us.
Please enlighten Anwar God.
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In conclusion, I would like to say that I am Riad Al-Mubarak, a volunteer translator at TED
I am working on enriching Arabic content, especially positive Sudanese content.
If anyone wants to join the project, I am ready for any help.
Thank.
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