Ensuring such support for all European languages will create jobs, growth and opportunities in the digital single market. Equally crucial, overcoming language barriers in the digital environment is essential for an inclusive society and for providing unity in diversity for many years to come.
The European Language Equality (ELE) project is developing a strategic research, innovation and implementation agenda as well as a roadmap for achieving full digital language equality in Europe by 2030. A key step has been to document the current state of readiness of each language.
Research partners, including the University of Malta, have prepared updates to the META-NET White Papers published ten years ago. The new reports include the results of an exhaustive data collection procedure providing a detailed, empirical and dynamic map of technology support for all official EU languages and some others.
Further details can be obtained from the local coordinators Mr Michael Rosner and Dr Claudia Borg (Department of Artificial Intelligence).