The Sorosoro Program

What links all humanity is not a unified language and culture, but rather the effort all people must make to communicate their language, beliefs or culture to others. Thus, it is precisely through the act of communicating across and beyond our differences that we build human solidarity.

Because Sorosoro is an open undertaking founded on the principle of sharing, the project seeks to foster a dynamic renewal of diversity, because it both a prerequisite for sustainable development and a promise of peace.

The project ’s primary development goals include:

• A digital encyclopedia of languages, an audiovisual database on threatened languages and cultures comprised of images and sound recorded specifically for the database or collected across the globe, then saved for posterity according to an ad hoc digitization and preservation program;

• A web-based television channel dedicated to languages with webcasts of short films, intended for the general public, based on the sounds and images collected for the database;

• The restitution of data to the communities concerned, which will enable them to take full ownership of them, namely for purposes of educating children in their native tongues and to facilitate transmission of knowledge of their traditional culture.

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