Increasing Content Accessibility for Multilingual Communities
The Opportunity Project (via HeroX)
About this opportunity
Overview THE CHALLENGE Develop (ideally open source) tools to help serve the increasingly multilingual community in NYC and in cities nationwide, enabling them to access government resources for an equitable recovery to the impacts of COVID-19. EXECUTIVE CHAMPION John Paul Farmer, Chief Technology Officer, New York City Mayor’s Office THE PROBLEM With more than 3 million foreign-born residents from more than 200 different countries, New York City is home to one of the most diverse populations in the world. New Yorkers come from every corner of the globe and speak over 200 different languages. Nearly one-half of all New Yorkers speak a language other than English at home, and almost 25% -- or 1.8 million people -- are not English Proficient. In crisis response and recovery, critical public ...