The Latvian public administration language technology platform Hugo.lv has been nominated for the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS Prizes 2025) project award in the category “Cultural Diversity and Identity, Linguistic Diversity and Local Content”. Currently, until next Wednesday, April 30, at 23:59, it is possible to vote on the WSIS Prize 2025 website for the Hugo.lv platform to receive this prestigious international award.
Hugo.lv is the Latvian public administration language technology platform, which provides modern, artificial intelligence (AI)-based public administration e-services to the residents of Latvia. Hugo.lv offers automated translation into 24 European languages, speech recognition and synthesis, a Latgalian written language spelling tool, an easy language tool, as well as virtual assistants for public administration institutions based on a single platform. Hugo.lv e-services are available free of charge to every Latvian citizen, resident and guest with the aim of ensuring the accessibility of public administration e-services to all population groups, regardless of their language skills, competences and physical capabilities. So far, no other European country has such a unique project as Hugo.lv, with which Latvia has truly emerged as a leader in the use of European state language technologies in public administration.
The public administration language technology platform was developed with the support of the European Union, in collaboration with the Culture Information Systems Centre (KISC) and the language technology company Tilde.