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<p>My two cents and sorry if they are not consensual.</p>
<p>While it is more than welcomed to see the theme of cultural an
linguistic diversity being addressed in IGF during the UNESCO year
of indigenous languages the reading of the 6 questions which are
supposed to structure the issue makes wonder if the focus is the
appropriate.</p>
<p>Question 4 : <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;
display: inline !important; float: none;"> How does the quality
and type of their internet connection impact on the type of
economic activity that women and LGBTQI engage in? For example,
if they do not have access to affordable high speed broadband
connectivity, or if their access is primarily through social
networking platforms?Please list examples of how digital
technologies and the Internet are used to promote, preserve and
share local culture, history, language, heritage and content?
Please add URLs or other references of these examples and
provide a short description.</span></p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">While I agree that gender is a priority
transverse theme I wonder if gender and LGBT is really a priority
focus when talking about preserving local language and cultures.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Question 5 :<span style="color: rgb(0,
0, 0); font-family: roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 700;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;
display: inline !important; float: none;"> What type of economic
activity do you think the BPF should focus its work on for us to
come up with useful policy recommendations?Are there specific
policy interventions and recommendations that the BPF should
consider or develop in order to maximise the use of the Internet
and digital technologies to help preserve, promote and share
local language and cultural heritage?</span></div>
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font-family: roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Maximizing the use of digital
technologies is certainly a legitimate objective for technology
and application vendors yet it may not be the real issue while
discussing local content production: how about focusing
"meaningful use" rather than "maximized use", production rather
than consumption? What matters is probably much more related to
the themes of <i>information literacy and localization of
languages </i>than to broadband connectivity. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Daniel Pimienta</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Observatory of languages and cultures
in the Internet</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://funredes.org/lc">http://funredes.org/lc</a></div>
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