Abstract:

The use of technologies applied to education, and the implementation of online teaching modalities, increasingly common since the covid19 pandemic, represents a great opportunity for the training of students in universities from low-income countries, such as Madagascar, a country where internet use is not widespread, although on a growing trend, and where spending on education accounted for 3.14% of GDP in 2022, below the average spending of sub-Saharan African countries (5% of GDP). In this experience, promoted by the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Castilla-la Mancha (in Spain) and the University of Antananarivo (in Madagascar), the Rask AI software is used for translation of master classes, practical training and informative and technical videos into French, the vehicular language of Malagasy higher education. The integration of this teaching in the degree in Veterinary Medicine and in the master's programs of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Antananarivo is expected, all complemented with innovative proposals aimed at promoting online communication between Spanish professors and Malagasy students. The main difficulty that Malagasy teachers face in incorporating these contents into their subjects is related to the availability of reliable energy supply and the lack of equipment and infrastructure to apply the practical aspects.

Keywords:

Translation, online, low-income countries, training.