Easy language isn't 'just' about avoiding long sentences, but rather a defined language style. Until now, texts have been translated manually, which is expensive and time-consuming. The Munich-based startup Summ AI wants to change this with its AI-based technology. Its AI-supported tool "Summ AI" automatically translates any complex text into easy language, making information accessible and understandable for everyone. Summ AI's solution is primarily aimed at government agencies and companies that are subject to legal accessibility requirements or that want to offer easy language to communicate inclusively and understandably with customers and employees.
10,000 euros for Summ AI
In an interview with Munich Startup The startup also explains:
"The topic is also much broader in general, because everyone is familiar with difficult-to-understand texts. In the future, we also want to make texts in particularly complex areas, such as legal texts or medical information, accessible to everyone by automatically simplifying these texts."
For this approach, Summ AI has now been honored as a digital pioneer in the Bavarian Digital Prize B.DiGiTAL. The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros.
The second prize, worth €8,000, goes to agricultural engineer Andreas Dörr from Ostheim vor der Rhön. He will demonstrate on his farm how digitalization in agriculture can reduce costs and protect the environment.
Third place, with a prize of €6,000, goes to Andreas Schneider and the Online Services team in the Office for Digitalization and Process Organization of the City of Nuremberg. With a broad, citizen-friendly, intuitive, and understandable digital offering, the Nuremberg city administration is a pioneer in customer-friendly e-government.
Special award for Ukrainian Deputy Minister for Digital Transformation
Valeriya Ionan, Ukraine's Deputy Minister for Digital Transformation, was honored with a special award. Ionan received the award for her personal commitment and the commitment of the ministry's employees to the digital transformation of her country. Despite the difficult war situation, Ukraine offers many digital administrative services. For example, the "State on Your Smartphone" concept already offers numerous services via apps. This allows government documents such as ID cards and driver's licenses to be used entirely digitally.
