Babylon to provide multi-lingual dictionaries to OLPC

by Giovanni Glass April 16, 2008 11:50 am Permalink
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Source: PRNewswire

Babylon will be providing searchable dictionaries to OLPC laptops. These dictionaries are comprised of 2,500 words in 16 languages. This is the largest contribution of words and definitions to the OLPC project.

"Education is of much importance to Babylon, which is always seeking to intensify its value, and contributing to such a significant cause is extremely meaningful." Alon Carmeli, CEO, Babylon Ltd.: "Having Babylon's dictionary content integrated into the XO laptops, will not only deliver the world to the children, but the children will have the opportunity to express themselves and explore the world. " Carmeli further added: "Babylon is very excited about the fact that it has succeeded to deliver the dictionary content to OLPC before the next distribution of the 500,000 XO laptops worldwide."

"Babylon dictionaries has contributed a basic set of 2500-word dictionaries with translations in 16 languages for use in OLPC projects. This is the largest coordinated contribution of words and definitions to OLPC to date. There are related projects going on to develop the dictionary projects such as words and speak." - OLPC

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April 17, 2008 9:54 am
Comment by Anonymous (not verified)

My name is Earl Williams, address P.O. Box 60008 Philadelphia, PA 19102-0008, I have not received my laptop yet. I donated this past November but have received nothing.

Please advice:

Nothing was receive at my office address, 1617 John F. Kennedy Blvd, Suite 1300, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Please someone give me a call at 215.920.7684 or 215.963.3476.

Thank you.

April 18, 2008 10:22 pm
Comment by momendo

Hello Earl. I'm sorry to hear you haven't received your laptop. Unfortunately, this site isn't the place to inquire about your OLPC purchase.

One place to check is the laptopgiving website.

http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/index.php

Try your reference number if you have it. http://64.34.176.239/laptop_giving/index.html

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