David has been a member of Wycliffe Bible Translators (Canada) for almost 25 years. Always interested in technology, he served as IT and language software support in Suriname and later in the Philippines.
Due to family health issues, he returned to Canada and joined OneBook (Wycliffe Canada’s sister fundraising organization) as IT manager and project liaison. In this position he has worked with the partners of various national Bible translation organizations (NBTOs), gaining an understanding of translation project management, along with its successes and challenges.
One of David’s other job assignments at OneBook is to stay abreast of language software technology that could be of help to their NBTO partners. David ran across ATW’s website early in its development and it always stuck in his mind. During a ‘chance’ meeting with Jeremiah Chung in 2019, he was excited to learn the software was now being used in field trials, and was challenged to hear that most of the Bible still needed to be encoded.
He is currently networking with OneBook and other like minded organizations to start a 3-year project to encode the full Bible along with development and scripture use aids.
email: David_Duncan@AlltheWord.org