Recognition and Awards

2026
Government of Makassar City - Contribution for Preserving and Developing Local Language via Digital Dictionary

2025
Winner of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes 2025 by the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Cultural Diversity and Identity, Linguistic Diversity, and Local Content Category

2022
The IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge is a new, global IEEE competition that solicits solutions from start-ups, grassroots organizations, universities, or anyone else that is working to bridge this digital divide in innovative ways.
Watch Our Presentation at IEEE 2022, click here!

2021
Featured in the Interfaith Short Film Festival & Conference on December 7, 2021. These films, highlighting religious harmony in Indonesia, were part of a selection from over 45 global contributions.

2021
The Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival – Our National Geographic-supported animation of community developed superhero, Luh Ayu Manik Mas, was selected by the Smithsonian Mother Tongue Film Festival as an official selection in the category of animations. Our animation was also a Staff Pick and featured on their Indigenous Language Animation Playlist

2019
UNESCO Confucious Prize for Literacy – The 2019 prize honors outstanding work in literacy and multilingualism.

2019
Kerthi Bhuwana Sandhi – Government of Bali awarded us this award for using digital media to strengthen the language and culture of Bali.

2019
Twitter Emoji for International Women’s Day along with our superhero Luh Ayu Manik Mas emoji

2018
International Linguapax Award – Each year, Linguapax delivers an award on the occasion of the International Mother Language Day (21 February). According to Lingupax, “This prize is a tribute to outstanding action carried out in different areas in favour of the preservation of linguistic diversity, revitalization and reactivation of linguistic communities and the promotion of multilingualism.”

2015
Semantic Media Wiki of the Month in February 2015
