Q&A
Database of translated materials and future plans
0:56:46
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Council Member Alexa Avilés inquires about MOIA's database of translated materials across city agencies. Kenneth Lo explains that while MOIA currently doesn't have such a database, they plan to work on it in the coming year.
- MOIA aims to collaborate with the Mayor's Office of Operations and the Office of Technology and Innovation
- Plans include updating digital infrastructure to embed multilingual communications
- The goal is to effectively collect and monitor translated materials across agencies
Alexa Avilés
0:56:46
So does Moya have a database of translated materials across city agencies?
Kenneth Lo
0:56:55
My current do not.
0:56:58
That is something that we anticipate working on in the coming year because of on 2 levels.
0:57:10
1 is the cluster engagement with the mayor's health office of operations, and 2 are in engagement with the the OTI, Office of Technology And Innovation.
0:57:23
They have as you may have seen with the MyCiti, the ByCiti project.
0:57:31
There are efforts underway to update their underlying digital infrastructure.
0:57:40
As I mentioned in testimony, we're very interested in making sure that with those advances that considerations around multilingual communications is embedded in that work.
0:57:54
And with that, it provides an opportunity to also to more effectively collect the materials that they're putting out to make sure that we're monitoring that they're available in other languages as well.
