Thank you to our newest sponsor, Adobe! We are grateful to Adobe for helping to make this year’s event possible. For four days, UTW 2026 will convene global experts across engineering, localization, type design, academia, user-experience design, and cultural preservation for an immersive program of cutting-edge tutorials, talks, and community building. Learn more about becoming an event sponsor for UTW at https://lnkd.in/eErhk396. #Unicode #TechForGood #LanguageTechnology
Unicode Consortium
IT Services and IT Consulting
South San Francisco, California 3,092 followers
Everyone in the world should be able to use their own language on phones and computers. Unicode makes it possible.
About us
The Unicode Consortium is the premier standards body for the internationalization of all software and services. Today, most people take for granted that their phones and computers can display text in any of hundreds of languages, handle dates, times, numbers, currencies in familiar local formats, and faithfully send emoji-laden messages to friends using any device. That wasn’t always the case, and it didn’t happen by accident. For 30 years, the Unicode Consortium has coordinated the efforts of a worldwide team of volunteer programmers and linguists to standardize, evolve, and maintain a global software foundation that allows virtually every computer system and service to help people connect using their native language. This has real world consequences. Today’s global economy runs on networks that reach billions of users around the globe. Databases, commerce engines, websites and shipping systems handle local names, addresses, and text in hundreds of languages from Latin to Cyrillic to Hindi to Japanese – all thanks to Unicode standards and code. The most compelling rationale was interoperability across the world. Unicode Consortium Quick Facts - Founded in 1988, incorporated in 1991 - Public benefit, 501(c)3 non-profit organization - Open source standards, data, and software development - Orchestrates the contributions of 100s of professionals, expert volunteers, and language experts - 30+ organizational members across corporate, academic, and governmental institutions - Funded by membership dues and donations Unicode was founded on the basis that: - Local solutions require global collaboration - Interoperability across platforms serves you – and the greater good - Transparency and open source ensure: Reliability — Security — Stability - Localization respects and empowers users Latest news and information: https://www.unicode.org/consortium/general-contact-signup.html
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http://home.unicode.org
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- IT Services and IT Consulting
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- 2-10 employees
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- South San Francisco, California
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- Nonprofit
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- 1991
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Unicode Consortium reposted this
Nominations Now Open The Mark Edward Davis Distinguished Lecture and accompanying Davis Prize will recognize an outstanding individual at any career stage whose work demonstrates impact and a compelling vision for a more linguistically inclusive digital future, providing a prominent platform to advance the ideas, technologies, standards, policies, and community initiatives that can carry the work of global digital inclusion into its next chapter.
Davis Prize: Nominations are now open ➡️ Established in honor of Unicode co-founder and Stanford alumnus Dr. Mark Edward Davis, the Mark Edward Davis Distinguished Lecture and Davis Prize recognize individuals whose work expands digital participation across the world’s languages, scripts, and cultures. Multiple nominations and self-nominations are welcome. Link to the form: https://bit.ly/meddl2027 The deadline for nominations is December 20, 2026. The inaugural recipient will be selected in 2027, culminating in a Distinguished Lecture at Stanford. For questions, contact davisprize@stanford.edu
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✨ Unicode would like to congratulate Elizabeth Chung, our latest Gold Sponsor! 🥇 https://lnkd.in/eEKnPX4R ❗Interested in adopting a character? Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eb5ER4C8 #UnicodeAAC #Unicode #TechForGood #CharacterAdoption
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✨Unicode would like to congratulate Mary Cutrali, our latest Bronze Sponsor. 🥉 https://lnkd.in/e6VUTvSp ❗Interested in adopting a character? Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eb5ER4C8 #UnicodeAAC #Unicode #TechForGood #CharacterAdoption
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We are pleased to be able to offer a number of UTW 2026 scholarships to students and early career professionals! Lowered costs for accepted awardees are as follows: Tutorial days only: $50 Session days only: $50 All UTW days: $75 Applications close tonight, September 25 — don't miss your chance to apply! https://lnkd.in/ehJ5kdBt
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Thank you to our newest sponsor, U+! We are grateful to U+ for helping to make this year’s event possible. For four days, UTW 2026 will convene global experts across engineering, localization, type design, academia, user-experience design, and cultural preservation for an immersive program of cutting-edge tutorials, talks, and community building. Learn more about becoming an event sponsor for UTW at https://lnkd.in/eErhk396
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Thank you to our newest sponsor, Glyphs! We are grateful to Glyphs for helping to make this year’s event possible. For four days, UTW 2026 will convene global experts across engineering, localization, type design, academia, user-experience design, and cultural preservation for an immersive program of cutting-edge tutorials, talks, and community building. Learn more about becoming an event sponsor for UTW at https://lnkd.in/eErhk396
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✨Unicode would like to congratulate Radu Cioplea on becoming a Silver Sponsor. 🥈 https://lnkd.in/eNF-3mkJ ❗Interested in adopting a character? Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eb5ER4C8 #UnicodeAAC #Unicode #TechForGood #CharacterAdoption
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Unicode Consortium reposted this
"Like the Nobel Prize for Digital Inclusion." We are thrilled to announce the Mark Edward Davis Distinguished Lecture Series and The Davis Prize Stanford University. Nominations open soon. Learn more at davisprize.org cc Unicode Consortium