DH-student praised for thesis on digitally-disadvantaged languages

The thesis is called "Paving Future Pathway for Disconnected Voices to Unbalanced Digital World: An analysis of multi-stakeholder perspective on improving the digital support for digitally-disadvantaged languages" (2024), and is written by Biyanto Rebin.

From the Abstract:

This thesis aims to explore the current situation, challenges, and proposed recommendation of digitally-disadvantaged languages (DDL) in the social and digital context from six stakeholders' perspectives: academia, civil society organizations, for-profit corporations, government, language community, and language supporters, with additional language policy analysis in Indonesia and Sweden. [...] The thesis concludes with the final result: collaborative efforts among stakeholders, especially the language community as the central actor and the government as the regulator, are the key to improving digital support and accommodating the need for digitally-disadvantaged languages.