Asia Online – the world’s most significant literacy project (and internet investment opportunity)

“A typical human translates 2000-3000 words per day. Using our system as an adjunct, a human translator can increase their productivity to between 8000 and 10,000 words a day.”

We offer an enabling technology for this industry and one which will enable knowledge to reach people who it otherwise would simply never get to.”

Asia Online and the future

To say we were impressed when we visited Asia Online’s headquarters in Bangkok is an understatement. The technology is there to enable all Asians to join the ICT revolution and the ability for the translation technology to independently develop further language pairings based on already input data augers well for providing compelling educational content to the majority of the world’s technologically disenfranchised peoples.

The company has already developed significant intellectual property in translations systems and has established a sales pipeline and partner relationships. It has already completed founder, Angel and Series A funding (from Japan Asia Investment Corp which has previously backed Mixi.com in Japan and Alibaba.com in China), and is currently seeking strategic Series B investors.

Interested parties should contact Dion Wiggins.

The history of machine translation of languages

Like voice recognition, machine translation of languages has been a science which has promised much and delivered comparitively little to this point in time. The first patents for such a “machine” were issued in 1933 to researchers operating independently in France and Russia, but it was not until the immediate post-WWII years that the concept of using the newly invented digital computing machines to translate between languages sewed the first seeds of what we know today.

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