Humanitarian aid workers around the world can communicate with disaster victims in their own languages thanks, in part, to five University of Minnesota undergraduate students.
A group of four College of Liberal Arts students and one College of Design student helped Minneapolis-based startup Ultralingua build a program to make language translation software available to response and relief agencies.
Apps for Aid has been used by the Red Cross and by International Medical Relief, an organization that sends short-term medical missions to help in disasters around the world.
August 3, 2012
Talent, Technology