Translating Early Grade Reading Resources and Games into Ukrainian: Lessons from the Global Digital Library Translate-A-Story Campaign

<p>This week, World Bank Senior Education &amp; Technology Policy Specialist and Global Lead for Technology and Innovation in Education Robert Hawkins speaks with the Global Digital Library (<a href="https://mcas-proxyweb.mcas.ms/certificate-checker?login=false&amp;originalUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fnam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com.mcas.ms%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fdigitallibrary.io%252F%26data%3D04%257C01%257Chapplebaum%2540worldbank.org%257C4a34ab6f7cb040b3d5c108da071f252c%257C31a2fec0266b4c67b56e2796d8f59c36%257C0%257C0%257C637830127635214151%257CUnknown%257CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%253D%257C3000%26sdata%3DiJEVUO9TOk471kUvz2ErRKB8b64WcAseKoflyA%252FdyX8%253D%26reserved%3D0%26McasTsid%3D20893&amp;McasCSRF=fcd3e357c01951ba65b9fd90de45e946dd99a43aeb0e0e309e86539ea6a28a2a" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Original URL: https://digitallibrary.io/. Click or tap if you trust this link.">https://digitallibrary.io</a>) about their joint crowdsourcing campaign with UNESCO and UNHCR (<a href="https://digitallibrary.io/ukraine" target="_blank">https://digitallibrary.io/ukraine</a>) to translate early grade reading resources and games into Ukrainian.</p> <p>The campaign is currently recruiting translators and proofreaders to translate 200-300 books and games from the Global Digital Library to create new resources in a language that needs resources urgently. The resources that are translated will be available both in the Global Digital Library and on the Kolibri platform. Robert Hawkins speaks with Global Digital Library CTO Christer Gundersen and Curious Learning Co-founder Tinsley Galyean.</p> <p>Christer will explain how the Global Digital Library works, the goals of this campaign, and how its methodology combines crowdsourcing and quality assurance. He will also speak about how the outputs of the campaign can be shared across multiple platforms.</p> <p>GDL partner Curious Learning (<a href="https://www.curiouslearning.org" target="_blank">https://www.c