Stanford SILICON and the Endangered Languages Project (ELP) are excited to announce a new one-year pilot partnership starting in April 2026, designed to explore collaborative models for advancing digital inclusion with endangered, Indigenous, and under-resourced language communities. The partnership brings together SILICON’s innovations in digital language infrastructure and ELP’s community-centered approach to language revitalization. Cooperating through knowledge exchange and resource sharing, this initiative aims to facilitate increased access to foundational language technologies for digitally-disadvantaged language communities.

Guided by shared commitments to community-driven problem solving, data sovereignty, reciprocal learning, and equity in digital access, the pilot will integrate SILICON’s Digital Inclusion Tools into select ELP programs and learning spaces. Through trainings, workshops, and collaborative experimentation, the partnership aims to demonstrate how language technologies can be paired with wrap-around support and trusted long-term relationships, to meaningfully expand linguistic diversity in digital spaces.

A central component of the pilot is a dual-internship program designed to bridge technology development and community uptake. An ELP Technology Fellow will explore how SILICON’s tools can be applied within ongoing language revitalization efforts, while a SILICON Summer Intern will provide technical expertise and incorporate community feedback into development processes. These two roles will collaborate to identify gaps in existing tools for language revitalization, and support SILICON and ELP in their shared goal of advancing linguistic inclusion within digital environments.