Saturday, 8 January 2011
Friday, 7 January 2011
We are in the World Bank Apps for Development Gallery!
Exciting stuff, the MDGTagger was submitted to the World Bank competition today, and we are now showcased on the Application Gallery. Some really interesting uses of the WB data sets on there, great to see the creativity. Why not have a look for yourself...
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Launched a new MDGTagger info website
The MDGTagger team have been busy beavering away and proudly launch the MDGTagger website.
This is now the main shop window or marketing site for the MDGTagger project. It will also serve as the basis for more detailed usage instructions, installation FAQs, that sort of thing. All very exciting and hopefully will help draw in even more people to create global network of MDGTaggers!
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Of course, we'll still keep blogging away here to give you the behind the scenes view as well :-)
This is now the main shop window or marketing site for the MDGTagger project. It will also serve as the basis for more detailed usage instructions, installation FAQs, that sort of thing. All very exciting and hopefully will help draw in even more people to create global network of MDGTaggers!
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Of course, we'll still keep blogging away here to give you the behind the scenes view as well :-)
Feedback and suggestions are most welcome
If you have any feedback, suggestions or questions about MDGTagger or MDGTagger HQ, please post them here. Thanks.
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
A word about globalisation
A really nice aspect of the whole MDGTagger project is that it provides a mechanism for global MDG professionals to find each other and connect over topics of common interest, regardless of language. By the magic of a consistent hastag taxonomy, we can start to bring people together whether they speak/write English, Spanish, Swahili, Portuguese, etc, etc. So that's wonderful! It does of course also mean that the MDGTagger team needs to provide a level of support in all those languages too. A this stage in the game the only way to do that is via the magic of Machine Translation. So thanks very much Googl Translate. Srlsly. As you are probably aware, machine translation, is awesome, but far from perfect, so if you happen to be a native Kiswahili speaker, say, and you spot that we have got a dodgy translation of something, please do let us know via the blog comments here
cheers
UPDATE: well, seeing as I was relying on Google to translate everything anyway ( they did Swahili, freetranslation.com did not) I thought I'd see what else was available. A nice tool that is provided is the embedded web page translator (http://translate.google.com/translate_tools) . Basically, rather than me having to go through and create different language versions of all my pages, just add the translation widget and let users choose for themselves. Magic! lets see how we get on.
cheers
UPDATE: well, seeing as I was relying on Google to translate everything anyway ( they did Swahili, freetranslation.com did not) I thought I'd see what else was available. A nice tool that is provided is the embedded web page translator (http://translate.google.com/translate_tools) . Basically, rather than me having to go through and create different language versions of all my pages, just add the translation widget and let users choose for themselves. Magic! lets see how we get on.
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