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" Babblefish: promoting world peace through global communication "


Introduction: The Essence of Babblefish - an essay by Johnny Jaskot

Babblefish.com was conceived by Johnny Jaskot in 1996 to help people from all parts of the world, regardless of their language barriers, communicate over the Internet. Right from the start the Internet was a powerful tool for communication and people started sharing information and reporting from all parts of the globe. In order to help break through the language barriers, Babblefish.com was conceived. It started out as a web development site offering language localization services and later included free online translators, world news, world facts, money exchange rates, special needs information and more. Over time the babbleboard, a message board for the world, was added and the site itself has grown to be a leading web portal.

The site is dedicated to "World Peace through Global Communication" and over the years that has become more and more prevalent as our world has plunged into global terrorism and chaos.

When asked to write about Babblefish.com and our mission to promote world peace through global communication, it made me stop and think a bit about what it could be like if we had peace in the world today.

Imagine if we took the billions of dollars we spend in war and put it to better use like feeding, healing, educating and clothing the world's less fortunate.

Could the good leaders of the world unite in places like the UN and NATO and help the world be a better place to live for all, as opposed to allowing the leaders of the worst countries for human fights veto all efforts to help. Instead of seeking the cheapest labor in communist countries and countries with no workers' rights or pollution controls in place, could big business make a stand and demand that workers' rights be upheld and only do business where workers' rights and global pollution control laws are in place, complete with a world monitoring committee to ensure that workers' rights and global pollution laws are being enforced.

We are citizens of the world! We have rights and responsibilities.

A citizen: A person owing allegiance to and entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a state or nation (Merriam Webster Dictionary)

The innovations of the 21st century have bestowed upon us this new designation. The barriers have been removed due to the convergence of technology and events that enabled countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing,

As citizens of the "New World" what is our role, our obligation to ensure that all of its "citizens" are protected by this newly defined state? Are we utilizing our technology to ensure that victims of ethnic cleansing, authorized murder, rape, and torture by tyrants are abolished? We can no longer plead ignorance on these fronts--we all have 24X7 news coverage.

Has big business become the new tyrant in that they subjugate their workers by taking advantage of them all in the name of profits? They employ such practices as low pay, long hours, poor working conditions, coupled with a complete disregard for the environment.

Where are our powerful corporations in making a stand and demanding that workers' rights be upheld, limiting operations where workers' rights and global pollution control laws are in place. Are they upholding their citizenship?

Our world leaders, politicians, kings, rulers and big business alike have an obligation to work together to make world peace a reality. But the reality seems just the opposite. They seem to work together to make as much money as possible for themselves exploiting human fights and our environment at the expense of peace.

So from its inception in 1996, Babblefish.com has proudly displayed our motto of promoting world peace through global communications. We must talk to each other about our differences and have acceptance for one another's cultures and religions. We must speak out against injustices and those who speak out need to be heard. It is with great hope that Babblefish.com has in some way helped someone in another part of the world reach out to a caring ear and found help through our site.

For the first time in history we have the opportunity to reach out to other countries and to truly see and understand what is going on from the point of view of everyday people.

There is one great barrier to all this, language. And thus, the conception of Babblefish.com, a world portal with links to language translators, world information, news, money exchange rates, and more, all with the hope of expanding global communication.

The Internet, by design, is a perfect means of promoting dialog between different cultures and nations. When Babblefish.com started it was just the beginning of the Internet revolution. It seemed obvious to me then that this was going to be a great medium, a place for all citizens of the world to be able to have a single, unified platform and to be able to say what they feel without being filtered by the press or governments. It has great potential as being the world's eyes and ears, and the world's unified voice.

We now find ourselves fighting to keep the web free. Communist and radical regimes see the web as a tool to find and punish dissidents and radicals and employ monitoring and filtering technology to limit what people can see and say. The shame of all this is that it is the

capitalists, the big business industries that are providing these filtering tools. These are the same businesses that attained great wealth and power from the free countries that allowed them to grow and prosper freely. But greed seems to blur this and they see it as a growth opportunity. I am confident in my belief that the citizens of the world today, through the use of the internet, have an opportunity to unite and stand up for fair working conditions, a clean environment and world peace.

This is what threatens these avaricious regimes. This is the reason they are attempting to filter the web. I see it as a crime against the world.

It is my hope through Babblefish.com and its links to language translation that we can in some small way empower people of different nations, the citizens of the world, to find other like minded, peace loving people and unite to obtain peace here on our planet.

Communication not confrontation.

So join us in our community bulletin board called the babbleboard available on www.Babblefish.com. Never censored and always open. Reach out to someone in another part of the world and join together for peace.

Citizens of the world-unite.

Bio:

Education: Bachelor Science Electronic Engineering Technology at Wentworth College of Technology Boston MA

Johnny started his career in Aerospace from 1979 to 1990 at which time he had been involved in the design of the first space shuttle and B2 bomber. He was part of a two man design team to develop a radiation hardened computer for guidance control in space and military applications. In 1990 Johnny left the Aerospace industry and started writing software and consulting for small business applications. In 1996 he got his first job working on the Internet and has never looked back. Babblefish.com was conceived in September of 1996 and released in early 1997. Since then Johnny has developed online games and virtual tour sites as well as many interactive web sites for major financial institutions and fortune 500 companies. Most recently, Johnny produces streaming videos for the recording industry, legal videos for attorneys, virtual tours for the Internet, and consults in software development. More and more time is spent advancing his world language portal Babblefish.com Award and Accomplishments First Flight Pin awarded for work on space shuttle and B2 bomber Northrop Team Award for development of computer models for radiation analysis on electronic circuits Babblefish chosen as Translation Portal by the Olympic Foot Care Patent awarded for laptop mouse pad protector. Babblefish releases online card game fortyfives.com. Babblefish footage used in the 2006 Grammy award show Babblefish participates in 2006 International Journal of Humanities and Peace



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