2023-12-20 COMS

Options/Costs for Translation Plug in for Website (e.g. French/Spanish/Arabic)

@Martha Mundas

@Martha Mundas

• starting to do research here: Translations.xlsx

• Discussed a combination of automated translation with native-speaker (GIZ intern?) review for important pages

• We agree we don’t want to spend too much money so a grass roots approach which may also require technical support for plug-in configurations.

• Prioritizing French for now for manual translations

• Plug-in could start with French, Spanish, Arabic

• next steps:

  • continued research on plug-in options with intern

  • define an approach by the end of January and propose/share with GC

  • @Farina Owusu and @Martha Mundas will kick off the project with GIZ intern.

Global Showcase update

• Arielle met with APAC team to discuss publishing global showcase pages for:

  • PNG - they’ve published a lot of info on LinkedIn that we can use for a page. Arielle is putting together a draft based on this information and will share for internal review and (likely) quick approvals with PNG.

  • Cambodia - will require stricter approvals and likely need more time.

Year in Review 2023

• email went out, everything has been published! hoorah!

Comms Framework

@Farina Owusu

• prioritize for very beginning of next year

• Arielle will review first pass / make updates

• Full review with Comms Huddle

• Potential review cycle with subject matter experts (for sandbox, country work, etc.)

Newsletter quarterly

• define process for newsletter planning

• DIAL credit card covers Mailchimp account until end of April - depending on grants, may need an alternative.

Compliance testing tool

• Launching end of February of next year!

• Comms campaign / events promos / etc.

• German GovTech Summit Feb 20ish - would be good to tease at a side event or launch