Dear Everyone,<div>A good deal of the recent discussion on the list has been concerned in some way with human rights.</div><div>One of the basic of those rights, and surely a very significant one in the online world, is the right to the freedom to express oneself in one's own language. The awkward phrase is deliberate - this is also a freedom of expression issue.</div>
<div>One of the tasks of Internet Governance is to protect this right as well as to negotiate appropriate means by which all of these diverse voices can be brought to understand one another.</div><div>And one of the first requirements for that understanding is respect for other languages, willingness to try.</div>
<div>Deirdre</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 February 2013 07:27, Imran Ahmed Shah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ias_pk@yahoo.com" target="_blank">ias_pk@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Dear Norbert, </span><u></u><u></u><u></u></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span><span style="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="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></span> </div><div><span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Thanks, </span></span></div>
<div><span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></span> </div><div><span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Imran<u></u><u></u></span></span></div><div>
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</div> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Norbert Bollow <<a href="mailto:nb@bollow.ch" target="_blank">nb@bollow.ch</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>; Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com" target="_blank">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> Avri Doria <<a href="mailto:avri@acm.org" target="_blank">avri@acm.org</a>> <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><div><div class="h5"> <br>Sala <<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com" target="_blank">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></div></div><div class="im">____________________________________________________________<br>
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