Languages Are Disappearing Faster Than We Can Learn Them — Let’s Reverse the Trend
In the digital age, we often marvel at how technology allows us to connect across borders, communicate with people from different...
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Designing Futures, Building Accessibility
Build Initiative drives progress through innovation, designing accessible futures where inclusivity thrives. We empower communities by breaking barriers in physical and digital spaces, ensuring equal opportunities for all.
About BUILD Initiative
BUILD Initiative commits to designing inclusive, accessible futures, ensuring everyone thrives, regardless of ability or background. We focus on advocacy, education, and collaboration to dismantle barriers and expand opportunities, transforming both physical and digital spaces to foster equality and empower every individual.
Building a Barrier-Free Future:
Our Commitment to the U.N. SDGs
At Build Initiative, our commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) drives every aspect of our mission. We design futures and build accessibility for everyone, envisioning a world where all individuals, regardless of their abilities or background, can thrive in inclusive, barrier-free environments. Through persistent advocacy, comprehensive education, and strategic collaborations, we actively dismantle obstacles and enhance equal opportunities. Our work encompasses transforming both physical and digital landscapes, empowering individuals across all spectrums of ability, and advocating for fair practices and expanded educational access. By partnering with stakeholders, influencing policy reforms, and fostering international cooperation, we are dedicated to making inclusivity a universal norm and a tangible reality for all, thus advancing the global agenda for sustainable development.
Main Focus
Gender Equality
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Reduced Inequalities
Sustainable Cities and Communities
Climate Action
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Quality Education
Climate Action
Partnership for the Goals
Life on Land
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GreenMatch
GreenMatch is a versatile platform accessible via mobile and web, designed to streamline the global trading of carbon credits through a user-friendly dashboard. It ensures secure, transparent, and real-time transactions by connecting buyers, sellers, and registries worldwide, with seamless integration through banks or direct access. With features like standardized transaction processes and detailed trade insights, GreenMatch empowers users to effectively manage their carbon assets and make a significant environmental impact.
Night Owl GPT
Night Owl GPT is an advanced mobile app designed to break language barriers in the Philippines. Fluent in Tagalog, Cebuano, and Ilokano, it aims to support all 170 local languages, enhancing AI accessibility for marginalized groups including indigenous peoples and persons with disabilities.
Carbon Compas
Carbon Compas is a cutting-edge app designed to help users worldwide, particularly in the Philippines, manage their carbon footprint. Leveraging AI, it tracks daily activities, travel, consumption, and energy usage, offering personalized insights and enabling effective carbon offsetting through global, verified projects.
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Build Initiative partners with UK’s The Climate Coalition
One of our main advocacies at Build Initiative is harnessing technology to promote climate action and sustainable development. In line with this, we initiated a partnership with The Climate Coalition (TCC), the United Kingdom’s largest group of people dedicated to action on the climate and nature crises.
Filipino Whiz Kid Creates AI Platform to Preserve Languages Nearing Extinction
“Hello! My name is Anna Mae Lamentillo, and I am proud to hail from the Philippines, a nation rich in cultural diversity and natural wonders,” shares Anna Mae, the dynamic founder and Chief Future Officer of Build Initiative Foundation. Speaking at IMPACT-WB24X at George Washington University, she highlights her roots in the Karay-a ethnolinguistic group, underscoring the unique challenges faced by non-English speakers in leveraging modern technologies.
Manila Bulletin and Build Initiative partner to enhance Night Owl GPT's coverage of Philippine current events
Manila Bulletin, the nation’s leading and most trusted news organization, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Build Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating accessible and inclusive futures for all. This collaboration integrates Manila Bulletin’s reliable and comprehensive news data into Night Owl GPT, an innovative AI-driven mobile application developed by Build Initiative to bridge linguistic and digital divides across the Philippines.
Filipina creates AI platform that preserves nearly extinct Filipino languages
Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo, founder and chief officer of Build Initiative Foundation and Chairman of the Build, Build, Build (BBB) Committee of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) under Secretary Mark Villar, is a 23-year-old Filipina Juris Doctor, academic, author, opinion columnist, philanthropist, and civil servant.
This AI platform promotes linguistic diversity of the Philippines
In a bold move to protect these linguistic gems and facilitate their integration into the digital age, former Information and Communications Undersecretary Anna Mae Lamentillo has introduced Night Owl GPT, an AI platform incubated under London School of Economics and tailored for the Filipino people, especially those belonging to various ethnolinguistic groups.
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