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style='font-size:13.5pt'>UNESCO and ICANN sign partnership agreement to
promote linguistic diversity on Internet</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=1 color="#333333" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>10-12-2009
(<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:City>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=1 color="#333333" face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>A significant step was taken on
10 December 2009 towards greater linguistic diversity on the Internet when
UNESCO signed an agreement with ICANN - the body that assigns online
addresses to Internet users - to help put into operation the first
multilingual domain names.</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=1 color="#333333" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>The
cooperation agreement follows the recent decision by the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to introduce IDNs, or
Internationalized Domain Names, in non-Latin script. Until now, domain
names in Internet addresses (for example .org, .com) were written using
characters from the Latin alphabet exclusively. On November 16, in the
first phase of the plan, ICANN began accepting requests from
representatives of countries and territories around the world for new
country codes in Arabic, Chinese and other scripts. Non-Latin script users
will eventually have access to internet addresses completely in their own
language.<br>
<br>
Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, welcomed ICANN’s move to
introduce IDNs. “This is a development that UNESCO has long been
advocating. The Internet must be linguistically diverse so that all
language groups can harness its unique potential,” she said.
“Through this new agreement, UNESCO and ICANN will work together to
bring more people into the information network.”<br>
<br>
The President of ICANN, Rod Beckstrom, described the importance of this
change to the global Internet community: “Over half the Internet
users around the world don’t use a Latin-based script as their native
language. IDNs are about making the Internet more global and accessible for
everyone.”<br>
<br>
The UNESCO-ICANN agreement covers a variety of cooperation areas so that
the new development can benefit as many language groups as possible. UNESCO
will notably call upon its network of linguistic experts to help in the
process; inform Member States about the new IDNs; encourage involvement of
other relevant United Nations agencies; and establish working groups to
help developing and least-developed countries participate fully.<br>
<br>
UNESCO is a key contributor to the Internet governance debate. During the
two phases of the World Summit on the Information Society in 2003 and 2005,
and the following four editions of the Internet Governance Forum, UNESCO
promoted the international community’s endorsement of four basic
principles for the creation of “knowledge societies”: freedom
of expression; quality education for all; universal access to information
and knowledge; and respect for cultural and linguistic diversity.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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