Multikulti

"As a small charitable project, Multikulti is a ground-breaking application of Unicode technology to generate and deliver essential translated content to disadvantaged minority communities in the UK." : Dr Dan McQuillan - Project Leader

This project supports citizenship through the delivery of appropriate and accurately translated information in welfare law.

This site:

Uses Unicode throughout. This provides a universal way of encoding characters of any language, regardless of the computer system or platform being used.
Complies with accessibility standards in each and every language.
Has a behind-the-scenes Workflow Area, which provides a space for the translators and proof-readers to work.
Allows users to search in any languages. Additional features of this site include navigation aids, a sitemap, a help page and a local agency finder.

“A very useful website!” : Katharine Spackman – County Reference & Information Librarian

“Best Social Innovation” award for Multikulti

The Institute for Social Inventions has judged the MKDoc Multikulti resource providing access to important information and advice on a range of issues through a multi-language website to be the Best Social Innovation for the year 2004 in the Communications Category.

Multikulti is in good company — in 2003, this award was won by Creative Commons.

"The multikulti site seems to be ranked very highly by google. Obviously I'm not complaining about this …" : Dr Dan McQuillan - Project Leader

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Document Links

Multikulti: The Multikulti website aims to support citizenship through the delivery of culturally appropriate and accurately translated information in the following areas of welfare law - debt, employment, health, housing, immigration and welfare benefits.
http://www.multikulti.org.uk/

Best Social Innovation for the year 2004: The Institute for Social Inventions has judged the MKDoc Multikulti resource providing access to important information and advice on a range of issues through a multi-language website to be the Best Social Innovation for the year 2004 in the Communications Category.
http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/news/index.php?articleId=116

Creative Commons: Creative Commons is devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share.
http://creativecommons.org/

Institute for Social Inventions: The Global Ideas Bank aims to promote and disseminate good creative ideas to improve society.
http://www.globalideasbank.org/

Contact: Contact details of Webarchitects
http://www.webarchitects.co.uk/projects/multikulti/.print.html/../../contact

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