Community members
Contribute the words, voices, and stories of your language, keep control of consent, and earn coins for every approved item.
Botswana's languages
Collect local language data for culture, research, and AI
Indigenous helps communities, custodians, and researchers gather, review, reward, and export Botswana's multimodal language data from one trusted source of truth.
Translation pair
Dumela mma
Good morning, ma'am
Setswana · Kweneng · approved
Who Indigenous is for
Language custodians
Review submissions, protect dialect detail, and keep community context attached to everything that enters a dataset.
Researchers and AI teams
Work from structured, human-reviewed data with provenance, review status, consent, and export manifests included.
About us
Indigenous
Indigenous is a national data platform for Botswana's languages. We believe language preservation and responsible African AI should grow from the same reviewed, consented source of truth.
Every approved item keeps its language metadata, source context, consent record, review status, and dataset eligibility attached, so communities stay visible in the systems built on their knowledge.
What we do best
What you can contribute
Multimodal data that reflects real language life, from a single translated phrase to a recorded story, reviewed by people who speak the language.
View all typesTranslations
Parallel text for local language pairs, public services, education, and AI training.
Conversations
Natural dialogues that capture greetings, idioms, context, and everyday usage.
Voice recordings
Pronunciation, speech variation, accents, and oral knowledge linked to consent.
Images and labels
Object labels, captions, bounding boxes, and visual context from Botswana communities.
Videos and stories
Cultural demonstrations, narratives, and multimodal records for future research.
Documents
Scanned or uploaded records that can be cleaned, reviewed, and prepared for datasets.
How it works
From contribution to dataset, accountable at every step
Items move from draft to submitted, reviewed, rewarded, and exported without ever losing their language or consent metadata.
- 01Register as a contributor, reviewer, or administrator.
- 02Select the language, dialect, speech community, and contribution type.
- 03Upload text, audio, image, video, document, or conversation data.
- 04Confirm consent, open-release permissions, and attribution.
- 05Reviewers approve, request changes, or reject with reasons.
- 06Approved data earns coins and is exported into trusted datasets.
What they say
From the community
I recorded my grandmother's proverbs on my phone during a weekend visit. They are now part of a reviewed dataset instead of being lost with her generation.
Build the national data foundation
Start collecting trusted indigenous data today
Contributors can begin submitting immediately, while administrators manage languages, reviews, datasets, rewards, and analytics.