The Unkad Platform

The Unkad Platform is our flagship project: an open platform where Somali speakers write, record, and validate language data. Contribution is organized by sector — health, education, agriculture, law, media, religion — and by dialect, covering both Maxaa tiri and Maay.

Data creation is model-assisted and human-verified. Models draft and suggest; Somali speakers correct, validate, and approve. Nothing enters a released dataset without human verification, and every contributor is credited and consented.

All data is released under open licenses — CC BY or CC BY-SA — so that researchers, developers, and the Somali community itself can build on it without restriction.

• Pilot the platform in one or two sectors.
• Reach 500+ active contributors.
• Release the first open dataset on Hugging Face.

The platform is live. Write, translate, and validate Somali — qor.unkad.com

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