<div dir="ltr"><div>So perhaps we need a reminder? See below for what civil society agreed about 13 years ago.</div><div><br></div><div>This year Portuguese was added to the Spanish and English already facilitated by translation at the LACIGF. Next year maybe French as well? This is a huge issue, but more likely to be solved by a continuing succession of very small steps coupled with a lot of good will. India after all has 15 official languages as well as several hundred that are "unofficial".</div><div><br></div><div>"Shaping InformationSocieties for HumanNeeds" Civil Society Declaration to the World Summit on the Information Society WSIS Civil Society Plenary Geneva, 8 December 2003<br></div><div><br></div><div>"information and communication societies that are people-centred,
inclusive and equitable. Societies in which everyone can freely create, access, utilise, share and
disseminate information and knowledge, so that individuals, communities and peoples are
empowered to improve their quality of life and to achieve their full potential. Societies founded on
the principles of social, political, and economic justice, and peoples' full participation and
empowerment, and thus societies that truly address the key development challenges facing the world
today.<br></div><div>...</div>Building such societies implies involving individuals in their capacity as citizens, as well as their
organisations and communities, as participants and decision-makers in shaping frameworks, policies
and governing mechanisms. This means creating an enabling environment for the engagement and
commitment of all generations, both women and men, and ensuring the involvement of diverse social
and linguistic groups, cultures and peoples, rural and urban populations without exclusion.<br><div>...</div><div>2.3.1.2 Language
Plurality of languages is at the core of vibrant information and communication societies. ICTs can be
applied to bridge cultural and linguistic divides, given the right priorities. In the past, ICT
development has too often reinforced inequalities, such as dominance of roman letter based
languages (especially English) and marginalization of local, regional and minority languages. <span style="background-color:rgb(0,255,255)">Priority
should be given in ICT research and development to overcoming barriers and addressing inequalities
between languages and cultures."</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.itu.int/net/wsis/docs/geneva/civil-society-declaration.pdf">https://www.itu.int/net/wsis/docs/geneva/civil-society-declaration.pdf</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 February 2016 at 18:44, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr" target="_blank">jlfullsack@wanadoo.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>I'd like to notice that the contribution forms are exclusively in English. That means that only English speaking (and wriiting) people can valuably submit their views and proposals. </p>
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<p>And nobody on the CS lists here is protesting against this scandalous situation. BTW, isn't cultural and linguistic one of the WSIS goals. OK, I know, these goals are not compulsory for the Chief Organisator : the ITU. </p>
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<p>A large part of CS orgs has lost its ideas and ideals since the WSIS inception ... so far away !</p>
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<span><span>The</span> <span>form on the site</span> <span>only accepts one</span> <span>proposal.</span> <span>I thought it</span> <span>was possible to make</span> <span>a second proposal</span> <span>but unfortunately</span> <span>this is not</span> <span>feasible.</span></span></div>
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