The Silent Infodemic within South African Sign Language: Developing Human Language Technologies for South African Sign Language - Paperback

by Herkulaas Mve Combrink (Editor)

As the frontiers of technology continue to expand, the responsibility to ensure justice, inclusion, and ethical stewardship becomes not merely an academic concern, but a moral imperative. South African Sign Language is not simply a linguistic system, it is a vessel of identity, memory, and resistance. Its integration into the fabric of twenty-first-century innovation must be pursued not as an act of charity, but as a matter of equity and cultural survival. The future will not be shaped solely by algorithms, datasets, or institutions, but by the people who dare to ask: whose voices are missing, and what futures are possible when they are heard? This book closes, but the real work begins.