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Empowering Communities Through Technology

We provide the technical foundation and linguistic expertise for every community to flourish in the digital age.

Language Equity

People flourish when they can communicate in their own language. We build the tools to make that possible.

Local Partnership

We equip communities with the technical tools they need to reach their own language development goals.

Global Infrastructure

We share expert data and open-source resources to help every language community reach its full, God-given potential.

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Software & Standards

We rely on open tools and processes to develop and support over 50 linguistic and translation products, including:

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Recent Posts

FieldWorks
24 July 2026

FieldWorks 9.3.10

Release Date: July 24, 2026 For more specifics about version 9.3 and the changes included in it, see the Release notes.… read more

Keyman
24 July 2026

Keyman Update for 17 July 2026

In this sprint cycle (6-17th) of July, Keyman for Android, Linux, iOS, and Web bring significant bug fixes to alpha versions (19.0.252-258). Moreover, Android has one BREAKING CHANGE and KNOWN ISSUE. … read more

Scripture Forge
21 July 2026

Cleaner process for logging in after session expires

Bug Fixes: Users are now notified when their session has expired and will be prompted to log in again. On mobile, the previous/next navigation buttons now correctly appear disabled when there is no pr… read more