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Be Understood…Be Gatfol…

 

…150 million people in Africa currently carries a
smartphone with web access…with 50 million added every year…

…1 in 8 of these people has an English reading vocabulary below that of an average 14-year old…

…online real-time translation of local languages are hugely deficient
(of the 64 languages Google translates into today, none of the 16 largest
languages in Africa – spoken by over 300 million people – are included)…

…with the power of the web in their hands, millions of people in Africa
– and many hundreds of millions of people worldwide
– do not understand web text well enough to meaningfully act on it…

…Gatfol translates online and in real-time  – from complicated
web English into any level of vocabulary set by the user…

…Gatfol empowers severely challenged readers (down to a bare 200 word vocabulary)
with an instant active vocabulary of that of a university graduate (over 20 000 words)…


…the web can change the world…

…Gatfol makes it possible…

Gatfol and Challenged Readers Worldwide…


At the lower end of the socio-economic scale are the “excluded” – huge population swathes excluded from capital, -good education, -basic amenities,  -job opportunities, and most of all – exclusion from information in general and online information in particular.


1 billion literate adults on earth
500 million literate adults in Africa and India
300 million literate adults in Africa
3 million literate adults in South Africa…

…have reading skills lower than that of an average 14 year old…

The language of the web – English – can semantically and grammarwise be difficult to understand with many levels of complexity. For tens of millions of adults in the developing world now carrying smartphones – empowered but online impotent, exclusion still reigns as online text information is freely at hand at increased affordability, but not fully understandable at lower reading-skill levels.

Gatfol employs a world-first patented semantic technology to translate English online text into tiny vocabularies to enable hundreds of millions of reading-challenged persons worldwide to instantly and in real-time magnify limited vocabularies into graduate-level first-world massive word power.

By empowering the reading challenged and also semi-literate populations of the world, Gatfol wants to change the socio-economic landscape from the “bottom-up” to bring our information-rich privileged online world to the huge number of disadvantaged people with mobile handset ownership. In doing so, Gatfol wants to push the fully lowest socio-economic level of humanity upwards to have at least some future interface and interaction with the online world of information.

 

Gatfol will work for communities in Africa, South-East Asia, many parts of the old Soviet Union and even large sweeps of the America’s…

…it is not often that we can change the lives of a billion people…


…support Gatfol to support them…

 

The difference Gatfol makes to 300 million worldwide…


Funeral Insurance !!!

 


At least half a billion LITERATE adults worldwide have at most been educated to primary school level.

At least one in every two has a cell phone.

Gatfol asked a small sample of reading-literate people based in Africa to tell us what words
(taken from the Hollard insurance website with products specifically for them), they do not understand.

From all keywords describing funeral insurance for the right target market,
only 34% of the test demography understood the conveyed message
at a level substantial enough to act upon.

Words that you and I and the internet world take for granted
bypasses this massively large socio-economic stratum…

For us – simple words – for them – information (and a better world) beyond reach…

Words not understood…

Immediate 20%

Accidental 13%

Cover 47%

Premium 73%

Annually 87%

Expenses 27%

Insured 13%

Insurance 13%

Provide 40%

Valid 20%

Required 27%

Additional 53%

Policy 20%

Essential 13%

Claim 27%

Benefits 80%

Illustrative 53%

Disclaimer 53%

Lump sum 33%

Mileage 47%

Reassurance 27%

Affordable 40%

Optional 7%

Devastating 40%

Acceptance 20%

Guarantee 27%

Documentation 47%

In the developing world, funeral expenditure is socially important and
economically burdensome, both on an individual- and family group level.
Over 300 million people worldwide are carrying a financial burden that could
have been lessened had the message conveyed to them been better understood…

This is a wake-up-call…


Gatfol…from cradle to grave…

Can You See Gatfol?

 

Gatfol Technology for Mobile Applications

The developing world over – but especially in Africa – more and more people are interfacing with mobile- or cellphone-based technology from first language bases that are not always that of the information carrying web – English. Cultural sophistication is also in many ways not currently present in – especially rural – communities to “talk” to electronic information effectively.

Gatfol provides an invisible (to the user) core technology that acts as interpreter between unsophisticated user input and what the application based information “requires” for efficient retrieval. Gatfol is the connection at a level that can be understood by both sides.

The technology differs from the current in that it can analyse everyday word relationships at power levels several magnitudes more subtle than that presently available. Gatfol has moved away from strictly mathematical pattern analysis to develop a compact and powerful two-dimensional matrix based technology that can deal with the “grayness” and “messy” structure of everyday verbal communication. To do this Gatfol uses unique matrix feedback structures and applies programmatic equivalents based on neurophysiological functionality such as neuron-interaction, quantity and quality of axon connections and neuronal firing impulses.

Gatfol can integrate disadvantaged communities worldwide – through language, culture and internet exposure – far quicker into our web world of meaning by successfully bridging the human-to electronic-information communication gap.

The strength of the Gatfol technology is that it not just acts as interpreter across informal communication channels – for instance in social networks, but also through more formal applications including news services, educational programs, consumer advertising, health- and medical support, financial- and insurance services and entertainment  – all linked to a fast growing pool of previously unsophisticated consumers.

The Secret Service, Gatfol, Alyssa and Abraham…

Secret Service investigates 16-year-old Alyssa
Douglas’ tweet about assassinating President Obama

(Cincinnati.com) — Alyssa Douglas, a high school girl from
the Clarksville area of Ohio, sent out a tweet Thursday night saying:

“Someone needs to assassinate Obama…like ASAP #DieYouPieceOfS—“

Now the Secret Service is investigating the threat.
(Gannett News Service, 3:19 PM, Sep 7, 2012)

Alyssa is not very clever…


  Abraham is…

Unlike Alyssa, Abraham is a terrorist and will act.

Security analytics use standard keyword blacklists containing
obvious danger words and danger word combinations:

…assassinate…kill…dispose of…murder…

Abraham gets in contact with his cell and uses keywords
that are individually innocuous, but threatening in combination:

…now is time for the final solution to our Obama problem…
…slice the head of the USA serpent…

Security blacklists struggle…

Gatfol’s patented technology generates thousands
of alternative multi-word equivalents per second – inline and
in realtime – to semantically crystallize high volume data streams

With Gatfol, Abraham becomes Alyssa…and gets picked up…

Joseph and Gatfol


It is 35°C in the shade outside…

Joseph’s child is shivering with a headache…

Joseph wonders if it might be food poisoning…

The nearest clinic is 85 miles away and closed for the religious holidays…

Joseph’s child has malaria..

Joseph has a cell phone…

With Gatfol…the medical terminology of the web becomes Joseph’s limited vocabulary…

Gatfol saves lives…

“Legitimate rape”…? Gatfol knows…

“The six-term congressman, who represents part of the St. Louis suburbs, drew an outraged response from members of both parties after a Sunday interview in which he explained his opposition to abortion, even in the case of rape. Akin said such pregnancies were “really rare” because “if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

Gatfol knows that “legitimate rape” is also…

“good, right, regular, proper, straight, fair, correct, true, sensible, honest, just, reasonable,
real, genuine, official, acceptable, authoritative, valid, authentic, legal, lawful, rightful,
permissible, justifiable, authorized, veritable, bonafide, statutory”…

 …“outrage, dishonour, assault, violation, defilement, ravagement, defloration “

Semantically baseless to morally unacceptable…

Gatfol gets behind the meaning of statements…

The Gatfol Divide

 What do you get when you subtract 10 maids and gardeners
from 10 bankers and internet entrepreneurs?

 


….a vocabulary of 10 000 ordinary English words that they do not share….

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk/Vocabulary)

The maids and gardeners need what the bankers and entrepreneurs can offer…

The bankers and entrepreneurs want to keep them informed…

Gatfol makes it possible…