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<b>Subject:</b> [governance] UNESCO CI News: "UNESCO and ICANN sign
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<p class=repeatertitle><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>UNESCO and ICANN sign
partnership agreement to promote linguistic diversity on Internet</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>10-12-2009 (Paris)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>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></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>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>
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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>
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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>
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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></p>
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