Indonesia is using crowdsourced language data to implement policies directed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The Translator Gator online game incentivises citizens to translate words related to the SDGs from English into their native language by rewarding users with phone credit. Indonesians have submitted 109,000 translations, which government is using to create taxonomies for six of the country's 300 languages and monitor public opinion on SDG-related policies.

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