In February 2024, a Rapid Word Collection (RWC) workshop was conducted in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG) for the Abau language. The primary goal of the workshop was to add at least 1,000 new words to the existing Abau database.
(March 2017) In the town of Thionck-Essyl in the south of Senegal, speakers of the Gusilay (Gusiilaay) language are celebrating the success of a recent Rapid Word Collection (RWC) workshop, where they collected a total of 12,485 words in 11 days. The workshop was publicized on the local radio station, including interviews of participants who voiced the importance of their collective work, resulting in a room full of Gusilay speakers at the closing ceremony, ready to join the celebration.
(January 2017) Johnny Walker (SIL) facilitated a Rapid Word Collection workshop in Tanzania for two closely related language communities, Ikizu and Sizaki, with the goal of producing a joint trilingual dictionary: Ikizu/Sizaki-Swahili-English.
An article highlighting Rapid Word Collection workshops held recently in Burkina Faso and the Solomon Islands can be found here:
http://www.sil.org/about/news/communities-pursue-language-development-through-dictionary-workshops