Client
Major US City
Event
Multiple Town Halls
Audience
City Residents
Languages
English, Spanish, Tagalog, Khmer
In the summer of 2021, the Redistricting Commission of a major city in the US held 20+ community events to gather public feedback. The events were hybrid, and participation from the greater community was vital. As this city has a diverse population, access to these meetings in multiple languages is helpful but also mandatory. KUDO provided its platform for real-time interpretation both in person and via streaming enabling full city access to the event in English, Tagalog, Khmer, and Spanish.
Historically, the town halls and other community events were held in person. Onsite interpretation was available when requested, and organizers gave out headsets to audience members who wanted to follow the meetings in another language. With COVID-19 restrictions and protocols, attending town halls in person was not an available option for the community.
This city’s event organizers were able to leverage KUDO’s user-friendly platform to enable 20+ hybrid meetings that were live-streamed. KUDO provided onboarding to the platform for the city’s in-house interpreters and technical support before and during the events for the event organizers.
With KUDO, citizens were able to watch these events from the comfort and safety of their own homes in their preferred languages. KUDO’s streaming capabilities gave more people access to the meetings, kept more people informed, and drove more overall engagement between the residents and the community leaders.
“By using KUDO, we were able to ensure a more inclusive and truly global event that brought together a range of speakers and participants and facilitated a diverse level of engagement and representation.”
“For large events like this, the turnaround time for getting answers to technical questions is crucial. The support we received from the KUDO team in this regard was excellent.”
“Accessing live interpretation from KUDO in Microsoft Teams made it possible for our company to navigate the new hybrid work environment seamlessly. But most importantly, it helped us ensure we could maintain inclusive and seamless communication internally given the bilingual context we operate under in Belgium”
“Thanks to Hopin’s integration with KUDO, language wasn’t a barrier. KUDO supported live interpretation, ensuring attendees from around the world could enjoy the conference’s content live and in their local languages.”
“We chose KUDO for the seamless live interpretation feature and the training and support provided by their amazing staff.”
“KUDO enabled us to significantly increase the number of participants in our meetings and made it possible for faraway countries to actively participate in decision-making.”
“KUDO delivered good quality multilingual translation cost-effectively. Our participants had an excellent experience as the service was intuitive and seamless.”
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