<div>Hi Michael and all,</div>
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<div>I am glad that IGC pays attention to "Multilingualism" on the Internet. I have been working with Tin Wee, Subbiah from Multilingual Internet Names Consortium (MINC) and Tijani and Zhong from World Federation of Engineering Organization (WFEO)/Committee on Information and Communication (CIC).<br>
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<div>If you are interested in the proposal on <strong><em>Access to Local Culture and Language</em></strong>, I will be happy to circulate it to the list.<br> </div>
<div>Thank you,</div>
<div>YJ</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/29/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Gurstein</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com" target="_blank">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div><font face="Tahoma"><font size="2"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff">Colleagues, </font></span></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma"><font size="2"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff">I think that we should pay serious attention to Baudouin's message below with respect to the issue of multilingualism on the Net something that we have been as guilty of overlooking as many others in the Anglophone dominated Internet world... (the reason being I think, the rather narrow CS base on which the IGC and ultimately the IGF draw upon for participation...</font></span></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma"><font size="2"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff">Among other things, 2008 year is the UNESCO sponsored</font> <font face="Arial" color="#0000ff">International Year of Languages <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=35344&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html" target="_blank">http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=35344&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html</a> and I think it would have been very appropriate if CS had proposed a workshop on the role of languages (or multi-lingualizing) and the Internet.</font></span></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>(Just a thought, I'm wondering if it is too late to put in a very brief proposal which could be fleshed out a bit later... </span></font></font><font face="Tahoma"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>I'm quite sure that the Secretariat for the International Year (managed I believe by our CS colleague Viola Krebs would be very supportive...</span></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>MG</span></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma"><font size="2"><span> </span>-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b> BAUDOUIN SCHOMBE [mailto:<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:b.schombe@gmail.com" target="_blank">b.schombe@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> April 29, 2008 2:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>; Parminder<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] IGF workshops<br>
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<blockquote style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">the four workshop proposals are well and I also support it. So beside consumer/user rights including privacy and right to freedom of expression, we have also multilinguism preoccupation. Since 2006, when we have open a debate about Tunis Agenda, frequently this problematic is come down from major internet user in africa.<br>
<br>Baudouin.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2008/4/28 Parminder <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"><br>Hi all<br><br>Please find enclosed the full text of four workshop proposals, that IGC<br>proposes to sponsor at the IGF, Hyderabad.<br>
<br>1. The Transboundary Internet: Jurisdiction, Control and Sovereignty<br><br>2. The Future of ICANN: After the JPA, What?<br><br>3. A Rights Agenda for Internet Governance<br><br>4. The role and mandate of the IGF<br><br>
<br>These are being put for a 48 hour consensus process. If a consensus or a<br>rough consensus is made out, these proposals will be submitted to the IGF<br>secretariat on the 30th, around 5 PM GMT.<br><br>Please indicate a clear 'yes' or 'no' for forwarding these proposals, as<br>
they stand...<br><br>While additional comments justifying a yes or no vote may be made, they<br>should follow a clear unqualified 'yes' or 'no'.<br><br>In fact such additional comments are welcome especially in case of a 'no'<br>
vote, because it helps calling a possible rough consensus, taking into<br>consideration the nature and the extent of dissent.<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Parminder<br>____________________________________________________________<br>
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