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</font></div><div><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>Dear Norbert, </span><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>Please do not take it
personally, your advise for the establishment of separate linguistic groups is
not being referred only for the French but for all other languages to which the
belongs member of the IGC. When we say a suitable balanced community
representation, that also mean that the linguistic diversity is inclusively
covered. </span></span></div><div><span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'></span></span> </div><div><span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>Thanks, </span></span></div><div><span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'></span></span> </div><div><span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>Imran<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"></font></span> </div><div><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"> <div style="font-family: tahoma, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height:
0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Norbert Bollow <nb@bollow.ch><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> governance@lists.igcaucus.org; Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Avri Doria <avri@acm.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 15 February 2013, 15:17<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [governance] Communication Challenges [Brainstorming]<br> </font> </div> <br>Sala <<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> How can we turn this challenge of communication into an opportunity?<br>> Any thoughts?<br><br>Maybe this experience
of communication problems can serve as a<br>motivation to create a "Spanish Language Caucus" for<br><br>a) discussion in Spanish of global information society issues;<br><br>b) discussion of information society issues concerning specifically<br> users of the Spanish language;<br><br>c) selecting Ambassadors, trusted by the "Spanish Language Caucus"<br> community, who able to communicate in English as well as in Spanish,<br> and who would be willing to engage in global fora on behalf of<br> Spanish speakers who don't have sufficient English language skills<br> to be able to effectively engage directly<br><br>?<br><br>Of course the Ambassadors would report back to the "Spanish Language<br>Caucus", etc.<br><br>If this works well, maybe it'll set a good example that could be<br>followed by other language groups.<br><br>Greetings,<br>Norbert<br><br><br>____________________________________________________________<br>You
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