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SignWiki is now in Namibia and Tanzania.  Signwiki provides a way to organize and manage Sing langauge materials.

Arrested Development version will yield dozens of paragraphs. Dozens!

No, I did not kill Kitty. However, I am going to oblige and answer the nice officer’s questions because I am an honest man with no secrets to hide. He’ll want to use your yacht, and I don’t want this thing smelling like fish. No! I was ashamed to be SEEN with you. I like being with you. Get me a vodka rocks. And a piece of toast. Get me a vodka rocks. And a piece of toast.

Web 2.0 Ipsum sounds like babble, but is in fact a jumble of real tech startup names.

Etsy doostang zoodles disqus groupon greplin oooj voxy zoodles, weebly ning heekya handango imeem plugg dopplr jibjab, movity jajah plickers sifteo edmodo ifttt zimbra. Babblely odeo kaboodle quora plaxo ideeli hulu weebly balihoo kno vimeo zlio voxy zinch twones zoodles joost, sococo zynga imvu imeem stypi lijit bubbli flickr mog sococo greplin bebo waze voxy. Spotify kno diigo sifteo dropio sococo chegg meevee empressr kosmix groupon handango, cloudera mzinga chartly plickers loopt xobni airbnb prezi vuvox jiglu omgpop, vimeo jumo eskobo omgpop jabber oooj mobly voki ngmoco blippy.

Gangster Ipsum generates “gangsta loremizzle my ippzle dummy text.”

The vision behind SignWiki is to contribute towards human development, empowerment and equity for deaf people by strengthening sign languages and education through the use of information and communication technologies. SignWiki was developed with the aim to enable other countries to utilize the platform, in particular developing countries. Plans to move forward and form partnerships around those objectives are currently underway.

Visit the Icelandic SignWiki project launched January 31 2012

Web and Mobile Platform for Sign Languages and Deaf Education

SignWiki is a collaborative web and mobile platform which enables collection, dissemination and analysis of sign language resources and knowledge. The platform was developed by the Communication Centre for Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Iceland (SHH) and in the beginning of 2012, Moller-Trondelag Kompetansesenter in Norway became a development partner. The system is unique in its integrated pedagogical, open and participatory approach. The development is based on open source software, including MediaWiki (the software behind Wikipedia) and jQuery Mobile.

In January 2012, the Minister of Education in Iceland officially opened the Icelandic SignWiki (is.signwiki.org), which has been well received by the sign language community and the general public in Iceland. The platform has fundamentally improved access to the Icelandic Sign Language and is widely used in teaching, by parents of deaf children, among interpreters, by university students, in deaf schools and in workplaces. Importantly, SignWiki also serves as an institutional knowledge resource for the SHH; it is actively used by its staff and is greatly improving knowledge sharing in the operation of the centre. SignWiki is currently being implemented in Norway by Moller-Trondelag Kompetansesenter and in Namibia by the Centre for Communication and Deaf Studies.

The vision behind SignWiki is to contribute towards human development, empowerment and equity for deaf people by strengthening sign languages and education through the use of information and communication technologies. SignWiki was developed with the aim to enable other countries to utilize the platform, in particular developing countries. Plans to move forward and form partnerships around those objectives are currently underway.

Visit the Icelandic SignWiki project launched January 31 2012.