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Together Against Covid-19

Public-health information, in the languages Oslo's communities speak.

At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Diversify translated and distributed official public-health information from Oslo kommune into more than 20 languages, closing an information gap for Norway's immigrant and minority-language communities during a public-health emergency.

SummaryClosing an information gap, in more than 20 languages.

At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Diversify translated and distributed official public-health information from Oslo kommune — vaccine information, testing guidance, isolation and close-contact rules, prevention posters — into more than 20 languages, including English, Arabic, Somali, Spanish, Turkish, Urdu, Polish, Kurdish, Vietnamese, Persian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi, German, French, Dutch, Russian, Portuguese, Serbian, Swahili, Tigrinya, Albanian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Romanian and Ukrainian — closing an information gap for Norway's immigrant and minority-language communities during a public-health emergency.

Outcomes

Framed as a public-service delivery project: what was produced, and in how many languages, rather than an outcomes-metric project. Reach, download and engagement figures were not published.