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The Open Service Grid Initiative aims at connecting various types of Service Grids that are operated by different organizations, and building an Open Service Grid Infrastructure by federated operation among different organizations across domains. As a first step for putting the Open Service Grid into practice, the Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University and the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand will start federated operation of the Language Grid for the language service domain.

NICT Language Grid Project
	Several research groups including NICT, universities, and NTT are developing a language infrastructure on the Internet called the Language Grid. This project is based on collaboration between industry, government, universities, and citizens.

Language Grid Association
	The Language Grid Association is a flexible collaboration among industry, government, academia and citizens. Its goal is to advance the technology and application of the Language Grid, and the organization consists of various research groups and projects that share this goal.

Language Grid Playground

The Language Grid Playground provides easy access to the Language Grid, and allows anyone to try out various language resources and language services using a web browser. The Language Grid Playground also showcases research results and technological development related to the Language Grid. Examples of real-world challenges, such as creation of new language services using language resource composition, or application of the Language Grid technologies to real-world sites with language needs, are also introduced through this website. The source codes of the Language Grid Playground are open to the public.

Language Grid Toolbox

The Language Grid Toolbox is an open-source software system developed by the National Institute of Information and Communication Technology. The software supports multilingual communication using the Language Grid. The Toolbox provides a variety of functions including Text Translation, Multilingual Web Creation, and Language Resource Creation (Multilingual Dictionary, Parallel Texts, Q&As, and Glossaries). Combining machine translators and the created dictionaries improves the translation quality. To meet various needs of multilingual communities, the Toolbox allows addition of new functions and is designed to allow development of new functions by combining existing functions, as this lowers the development cost.