The most up to date versions of the list here can be found on the Effective Altruism Hub’s links page, with a community-editable version cross-posted to the EA wiki.
Does anyone have thoughts or reports on non-English language effective altruism? Is it a promising area of outreach, and if so in what languages, and through what methods? In what countries and languages is it most active? (My impression is German, especially in Switzerland, and following that Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish. It’s interesting that north European and historically protestant countries are particularly strong; I believe these have especially strong ethoses of private charity, in particular the UK—think the Victorian culture of charity.)
The list and map of EA groups shows the spread of these; some are much larger or more active than others (filtering to come if I, or someone else, get the time).
Here’s a list of non-English language EA venues which I just compiled for the Effective Altruism Hub’s links page, and cross-posted this to the EA wiki. It currently consists entirely of the general EA Facebook groups for linguistic communities, but additions are welcome.
If you know anyone potentially interested in EA who speaks these languages, do point or invite them to these groups. To invite someone to a group, join it and then use the box at the top right of it.
Non-English language effective altruism (including a list of venues)
The most up to date versions of the list here can be found on the Effective Altruism Hub’s links page, with a community-editable version cross-posted to the EA wiki.
Does anyone have thoughts or reports on non-English language effective altruism? Is it a promising area of outreach, and if so in what languages, and through what methods? In what countries and languages is it most active? (My impression is German, especially in Switzerland, and following that Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish. It’s interesting that north European and historically protestant countries are particularly strong; I believe these have especially strong ethoses of private charity, in particular the UK—think the Victorian culture of charity.)
A few things worth noting:
The book The Life You Can Save has been widely translated.
Matt Wright and I got a basic version of the Giving What We Can site translated into several languages.
Thanks to Pablo Stafforini, Spanish now has http://altruismoeficaz.net
The list and map of EA groups shows the spread of these; some are much larger or more active than others (filtering to come if I, or someone else, get the time).
Some have advocated ‘spray and pay’ EA marketing.
There is a .impact project page for non-English outreach.
Here’s a list of non-English language EA venues which I just compiled for the Effective Altruism Hub’s links page, and cross-posted this to the EA wiki. It currently consists entirely of the general EA Facebook groups for linguistic communities, but additions are welcome.
German EA group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1575844375976037/
Italian EA group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/795131383874787/
Hebrew EA group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/786744044734860/?ref=browser
Bulgarian EA group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1375044486151027/?ref=browser
Czech EA group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/329548610588797/?ref=browser
Dutch: https://www.facebook.com/groups/262932060523750/?ref=browser
French: https://www.facebook.com/groups/altruistes.efficaces/?ref=browser
Russian: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1568058766787596/?ref=browser
Indian languages: https://www.facebook.com/groups/415216661980478/
Spanish: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1605543996325148/
If you know anyone potentially interested in EA who speaks these languages, do point or invite them to these groups. To invite someone to a group, join it and then use the box at the top right of it.