Common Voice is a global digital project that wants to forge a repository of voice clips from all the languages of the world from the voice recordings made by volunteers that Softcatalà promotes in Catalan-speaking territories
Plataforma per la Llengua will now be involved in voice collection and announce a new campaign to make Catalan the first language on Common Voice
The new campaign of the entity will start on 14 April in the Palau Blaugrana, within the framework of the Barça-València basketball match of the EuroLeague, and the details will be made public soon
The Alliance for the digital presence of Catalan, presented this morning, is being promoted by Plataforma per la Lengua and nine other organisations and has the support of the Government of Catalonia
The president of Plataforma per la Llengua, Òscar Escuder, has sent a letter to the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, and to the European Ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly, to denounce the organisation by Dolors Montserrat of an event today at the European Parliament opposing linguistic immersion, taking advantage of her position as president of the petitions committee (PETI)
The resolution, presented by Plataforma per la Llengua, has been approved at the General Assembly of the European Language Equality Network, held in Cardiff at the weekend
Maria de Lluc Muñoz, Plataforma per la Lengua's international officer, takes part in a round table on Spain's language minorities together with representatives of the Basque Country and Galicia
Òscar-Adrià Ibàñez, head of the language rights unit at the Catalan NGO, attends the 66th Congress of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), one of the main organisations defending national and linguistic minorities, in Berlin
The FUEN assembly of delegates agrees to ask the Spanish authorities to recognise Catalan-speakers as a linguistic minority and to take measures to recover the levels of use of the Spain's minority languages
The exhibition displays data on the vitality of the language and denounces the situation of marginalisation it is suffering from Spanish, French, Italian and European institutions
A survey, commissioned from GESOP by Plataforma per la Llengua, also concludes that 35% of Catalans who do not have LinkedIn would start using it if the platform included Catalan
The survey commissioned by Plataforma per la Llengua from GESOP also concludes that 30% of the Catalan non-users of Instagram would use the app if the platform included their language
The survey commissioned from the GESOP company by Plataforma per la Llengua also concludes that, at the moment, only 11% of Catalans with GPS have an application like Waze or TomTom which offers spoken directions in Catalan.
Half Google Maps users would consider change their GPS system for language reasons