Danbury, CT, USA – 21 December 2016. One of the world’s leading non-profit translation organizations, Translators without Borders is pleased to announce Wieners+Wieners GmbH, a language service provider for high-quality translations, adaptions, proofreading and editing, have pledged support to help humanitarian translations reach more people around the world by becoming a bronze sponsor. Translators without […]
TWB expands board to better reflect breadth of stakeholders
DANBURY, CT USA – 13 December 2016. Translators without Borders (TWB) announces the appointment of three new board members who will work with the current board to increase access to information in the right languages. The new board members are Nigel Fisher, former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General; Iris Orriss, Head of Internationalization at Facebook; and […]
Translators without Borders develops the world’s first crisis-specific machine translation system for Kurdish languages
DANBURY, CT USA – 21 November 2016. Translators without Borders (TWB) has developed offline machine translation (MT) engines for Sorani and Kurmanji, specifically for translating content for refugees. Sorani and Kurmanji are the two main languages spoken by Kurdish refugees; the data used to build the systems came from the work that TWB has done […]
Translators without Borders European refugee response
Translators without Borders launched its European refugee response in October 2015, working through partners to provide those arriving in Greece, and transiting to other European countries, with vital information in a language and format they can understand and use. This factsheet summarizes the Translators without Borders European refugee response. Download here Other resources that might […]
The Humanitarian Innovation Fund announces TWB as a winner of its innovation initiative.
DANBURY, CT USA – 18 October 2016. Translators without Borders is honored to be one of three innovation teams selected by the Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) to accelerate our journey to scale. The TWB Words of Relief program, first piloted in 2013 and 2014, with an initial HIF grant, has grown significantly, providing translation and […]
Translators without Borders wins Microsoft Hackathon Award
DANBURY, CT USA –31 August 2016. The Translators without Borders (TWB) Words of Relief project has been named as an award winner in the 2016 Microsoft //oneweek Hackathon in the non-profit category. The Microsoft Hackathon is a global event that brings Microsoft employees together to create, innovate and hack on ideas that inspire them. Microsoft […]
50,000 medical articles freely available off-line
Danbury, CT, USA – 16 August 2016 – Community health workers who understand Arabic, Chinese or English now have access to thousands of articles on their phones, off-line for free. Translators without Borders, the Wiki Project Med Foundation and Wikimedia Switzerland have announced the launch of the Arabic and Chinese version of the offline medical […]
3.3 million people accessing vital medical information every month
Danbury, CT, USA – 09 August 2016. Translators without Borders (TWB) and the Wiki Project Med Foundation are partnering to ensure that critical healthcare information reaches an estimated to 3.3 million people every month. Since the partnership began in 2012, 1,900 medical articles have been made accessible on local-language Wikipedias, with TWB providing the translations […]
Upcoming events
Translators without Borders will be represented at the following events over the coming months. If you are attending, we would love to meet you.
TWB sponsor event raises over $6,500 for Translators without Borders
DANBURY, CT, USA – 08 July 2016. On 11 June LocWorld and KantanMT teamed up to host the Coastal Flag Challenge around Howth Peninsula, Dublin, Ireland to raise money for Translators without Borders (TWB). The hike was a resounding success thanks to TWB sponsors and supporters who raised over $6,500 for the organization. The hike […]
Mirko Plitt appointed TWB’s Head of Technology
DANBURY, CT USA – 16 June 2016. Mirko Plitt appointed TWB’s Head of Technology. Mirko Plitt, one of the foremost experts in the industrial use of machine translation and other language technologies has joined Translators without Borders (TWB) as Head of Technology. TWB strives to find innovative technology solutions that can help provide people with […]
Global Health Media Project releases new videos with the collaboration of Translators without Borders.
DANBURY, CT USA – 12 April 2016 – Global Health Media Project and TWB collaborate on the production of videos translated into three languages that will help close the gap in knowledge of health workers based in low-resource areas. Global Health Media Project has just released seven new instructional videos that provide clinical guidance for […]