Ram Mohan is Chairman and Founder of the Coalition on Digital Impact (CODI), an independent, global coalition founded to empower global communities to access and navigate the Internet in their native languages.
The modern ability to digitize medical records, financial transactions, and cultural documents means that important items can be recorded for posterity. But when it comes to language, technology’s rapid advancement could lead to the extinction of global languages.
For example, in southwestern Ethiopia, the Ongota language has virtually no digital presence, lacking a standardized script, keyboard support, app localization, digitized content, or representation in AI language…