[governance] IGF workshops: A workshop on Multilingualism and the Internet???

[Michael Gurstein]

Colleagues, 
 
I think that we should pay serious attention to Baudouin's message below
with respect to the issue of multilingualism on the Net something that we
have been as guilty of overlooking as many others in the Anglophone
dominated Internet world... (the reason being I think, the rather narrow CS
base on which the IGC and ultimately the IGF draw upon for participation...
 
Among other things, 2008 year is the UNESCO sponsored International Year of
Languages http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=35344
<http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=35344&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL
_SECTION=201.html> &URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html and I think it
would have been very appropriate if CS had proposed a workshop on the role
of languages (or multi-lingualizing) and the Internet.
 
(Just a thought, I'm wondering if it is too late to put in a very brief
proposal which could be fleshed out a bit later... I'm quite sure that the
Secretariat for the International Year (managed I believe by our CS
colleague Viola Krebs would be very supportive...
 
MG
 
 
 -----Original Message-----
From: BAUDOUIN SCHOMBE [mailto:b.schombe at gmail.com] 
Sent: April 29, 2008 2:51 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Parminder
Subject: Re: [governance] IGF workshops



the four workshop proposals are well and I also support it. So beside
consumer/user rights including privacy and right to freedom of expression,
we have also  multilinguism  preoccupation.  Since 2006, when we have open a
debate about Tunis Agenda, frequently this  problematic is come down from
major internet user in africa.

Baudouin.


2008/4/28 Parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>:



Hi all

Please find enclosed the full text of four workshop proposals, that IGC
proposes to sponsor at the IGF, Hyderabad.

1. The Transboundary Internet: Jurisdiction, Control and Sovereignty

2. The Future of ICANN: After the JPA, What?

3. A Rights Agenda for Internet Governance

4. The role and mandate of the IGF


These are being put for a 48 hour consensus process. If a consensus or a
rough consensus is made out, these proposals will be submitted to the IGF
secretariat on the 30th, around 5 PM GMT.

Please indicate a clear 'yes' or 'no' for forwarding these proposals, as
they stand...

While additional comments justifying a yes or no vote may be made, they
should follow a clear unqualified 'yes' or 'no'.

In fact such additional comments are welcome especially in case of a 'no'
vote, because it helps calling a possible rough consensus, taking into
consideration the nature and the extent of dissent.

Thanks

Parminder
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