The Arabic language is vital to educational systems of the future

[ad_1] By Latrecia Wilson, Executive Director, QFI  •  Updated: 18/05/2023 – 12:39 Arabic is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, so why aren’t more schools offering it as part of their regular school timetable at an earlier age, Latrecia Wilson writes. Access to critically needed languages, including Arabic, is increasingly becoming a social justice issue.  Without access to language learning, 21st-century workers — especially the marginalised or disadvantaged — face a significant loss of economic, social,…

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Language matters when Googling controversial people

[ad_1] One of the useful features of search engines like Google is the autocomplete function that enables users to find fast answers to their questions or queries. However, autocomplete search functions are based on ambiguous algorithms that have been widely criticized because they often provide biased and racist results. The ambiguity of these algorithm stems from the fact that most of us know very little about them — which has led some to refer to…

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Facebook Spanish Language Moderators Say They’re Treated Worse Than English Counterparts

[ad_1] At the Richardson, Texas, office of Genpact, a Meta subcontractor, Spanish-language moderators told BuzzFeed News they’ve been required to report to the office since April 2021, despite the emergence of both Delta and Omicron variants that caused COVID infections to spike across the US. According to them, moderators responsible for English-language content review have been permitted to cycle through the office three-monthly. “Being in the office … has been nothing short of a nightmare,”…

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