Consulting the Community: How to Reach Digital Language Equality in Europe by 2030?

This chapter describes the community consultation process carried out in the European Language Equality (ELE) project concerning the future situation in 2030. Due to its central status for the future-looking activities within the project, this chapter introduces the second part of the present book. We gathered, analysed and structured the views, visions, demands, needs and gaps of European Language Technology (LT) developers, both industry and academia, and European LT users and consumers. Additionally, based on these collected findings and other evidence, we attempted to derive a thorough description of the steps to take to reach Digital Language Equality (DLE) in Europe by the year 2030 and, moreover, what the field of LT will look like in Europe in about ten years from now.