Translating open agricultural research to local language project
Empowering farmers and policy makers with making openly accessible agricultural research in local language.Please checkout our website
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Currently, the agricultural research outputs are available in English language and in scientific terms which cannot be understood by farmers and the policy makers which motivated us to start this project.
This project proposes to translate open research outputs in agriculture into Ethiopian local languages like Amharic, and to communicate scientific terms in plain language that farmers can understand. The translations will be openly available to farmers and the general public using an online platform to facilitate citizen engagement in open science, including data collection and data analysis, with the expectation that citizen involvement will increase agricultural productivity.
The project manager , Solomon Mekonnen is an Academic Staff with rank of Lecturer at the Addis Ababa University based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is also a Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Ambassador for East Africa. Solomon is also a final year PhD student at the University of South Africa. The project is mentored by Dr. Paul Villoutreix who is a Postdoc at the Weizmann Institute of Science - Visiting fellow of the Center for Data Arts - Lead The Embryo Digital Atlas. Our project is selected for the fifth round of Mozilla open leaders.
We really need help from different experts. If you would like to help us in translating open agricultural research output to any of Ethiopian languages, you are kindly welcome. We also require expertise in fund raising for the project. Your technical assistance in building the online platform to make available the translations is also greatly appreciated. Do you have any other idea to help us? We warmly welcome any assistance from you. Please visit current available Issues for help.
We hope you will join this project and help us in whatever way you can assist. Please check out our contributor’s guideline and roadmap to start contributing to this project.
If you have any question about the project or any suggestion for improvement, please open an issue at this github repository then we will immediately respond. You may also contact Solomon Mekonnen by email (solomon3matgmail.com) or on twitter.