Ranking Digital Rights has once again partnered with Global Voices Translation Services to translate the executive summary of the 2022 Big Tech Scorecard into six major languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, Korean, Russian, and Spanish!
The RDR Big Tech Scorecard evaluates 14 companies, whose products and services are used by over four billion people worldwide, in all kinds of cultures and contexts. The languages of our translations represent the most commonly spoken languages in the countries where the companies we rank are located, and therefore reflect the global nature of our work.
Key components of our 2020 methodology, including our 2020 revisions, are also available in Spanish, French, and Arabic. This document provides a great practical tool for anyone around the world who wishes to use and adapt our standards and build unique advocacy campaigns adapted to their goals and local contexts.
For example, over the past year, civil society organizations in West and Southern Africa, as well as South and Southeast Asia, have adapted our methodology to study local tech sectors in a total of 10 countries. Projects carried out by Paradigm Initiative in Angola, the DRC, and the Central African Republic, and by EngageMedia in six Southern Asian countries, used our standards to evaluate local telecommunication companies. Meanwhile, the Internet Freedom Project Lesotho evaluated financial services, in addition to telcos. Making our resources available in multiple languages is therefore a key part of our strategy to expand the reach and impact of our rankings and standards.
With these translations, we hope to support broader advocacy actions that can leverage this data and analysis to hold more companies accountable for policies that better respect people’s human rights online.
Translations for the Telco Giants 2022 Scorecard—forthcoming this fall—will cover 12 companies based in 12 different jurisdictions: Spain, the UK, the U.S., Norway, Germany, France, South Africa, Mexico, Malaysia, India, UAE, and Qatar. You can also visit our translations page for translations from previous years.
It takes a village: We thank Global Voices for their work on the translations, as well as our regional partners for their help in reviewing and promoting these materials!
Get in touch: If you’re a researcher or advocate interested in learning more about our methodology, our team would love to talk to you! Write to us at info@rankingdigitalrights.org.
