[governance] Re: Workshop Proposal on Access to Local Culture and Language

[YJ Park]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:46 PM, YJ Park <yjpark21 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is a work-in-progess IGF workshop proposal on Multilingualizing
> Internet Gateways on the Internet for your consideration and feedback.
>
> Thank you,
> YJ
>
> =========================================
> 1.      Name of proposed workshop: Access to Local Culture and Language
> (ALCL)
>
> 2.      Provide a concise description of the proposed workshop theme
> including its importance and relevance to the IGF.
>
> The global Internet as of today recognizes only ASCII addresses as domain
> names. But we are in a transition to Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs).
> This transition has evolved into a series of political challenges such as
> creating IDNs associated with Country Code Top Level Domain Names
> ("ccTLDs"), developing policies on IDN dispute resolution, IDN whois
> records, and competition among incumbent registries. Who sets the standards?
> How many IDNs should be allocated for each country? Should incumbent
> registries get the same top level domain ("TLD") in new scripts?
>
> This workshop explores how to resolve such political challenges. The
> concept of multilingual road signs on the global Internet was first proposed
> to ICANN in 2000. ICANN is about to implement the IDNs. Why did it take so
> long to reach a global consensus on multilingual domain names?
>
> Those who believe in the principle of global compatibility of the Internet
> were afraid that the Internet would become a tower of Babel. They resisted
> multilingual gateways to protect global compatibility on the Internet. Those
> who believe in the principle of access to local culture and language on the
> Internet kept fighting to build multilingual gateways. Tensions also arise
> among those who use same language and character sets when it comes to a
> decision-making process for the specific language and character sets. The
> Government of China believes it has a sole authority to decide matters about
> Chinese gateways on the global Internet, whilst stakeholders of Chinese are
> all around the world. India has another challenge. The Government of India
> recognizes 23 official languages including Hindi and English. Everybody
> struggles at this stage how to handle this complicated challenge ahead.
>
> 3.      Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are
> planning to invite. Describe the main actors in the field and whether you
> have approached them about their willingness to participate in proposed
> workshop.
>
>    - Tinwee Tan (Civil Society, National University of Singapore, MINC)
>    -- Singapore (Confirmed)
>    - ____________ (Civil Society, WFEO CIC) -- Tunisia (under
>    consultation)
>    - China government (Gov't) -- China (under consultation)
>    - Vasil'ev Vladimir Mikhailovich,Head of Department, Ministry for
>    Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation
>    (Gov't) -- Russia (Confirmed)
>    - Yoav Keren... (Private Sector, GNSO/ICANN) -- Israel  --- Domain
>    the Net, Member of ICANN President's Advisory Commitee on IDN, Member of the
>    ICANN GNSO IDN Policy Working Group, Israel Ministry of Communications
>    Representative on IDN to ICANN (Confirmed)
>    - ____________ (International Organization, ICANN or ISOC) -- USA
>    (under consultation)
>    - Subbiah (Private Sector, i-DNS.net) -- Singapore/USA (Confirmed)
>
> 4.      Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their
> affiliation to various stakeholder groups. Describe how you will take steps
> to adhere to the multi-stakeholder principle, geographical diversity and
> gender balance.
>
>    - Tinwee Tan (National University of Signapore, Multilingual
>    Internet Names Consortium)  Civil Society, Singapore, Asia
>
>
>    - YJ
>    - Tijani Ben Jamma (WFEO Committee on Information Communication,
>    Vice-Chair) Civil Society, Tunisia, Africa
>    - Subbiah (i-DNS.net) Private Sector, Singapore/USA, Asia/North
>    Americ
>
>

> 5.      Does the proposed workshop provide different perspectives on the
> issues under discussion?
>
> Yes. Visions on multilingualization on the Internet will be explored to
> provide a comprehensive coverage of the challenges in materializing "Access
> to Local Culture and Language" on the Global Internet.
>
> 6.      Please explain how the workshop will address issues relating to
> Internet governance and describe how the workshop conforms with the Tunis
> Agenda in terms of substance and the mandate of the IGF.
>
> The Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, adopted at the Tunis Phase
> of WSIS, highlights the importance of multilingualism for bridging the
> digital divide.
>
>    - WSIS Tunis Agenda Action Line C2
>    - WSIS Tunis Agenda Action Line C3
>    - WSIS Tunis Agenda Action Line C8
>
> 7.      List similar events you and/or any other IGF workshops you have
> organized in the past.
>
> Not applicable. We would like to urge IGF secretariat to pay more
> attention to the proposals from newly participating members of the forum.
>
> 8.      Were you part of organizing a workshop last year? Which one? Did
> you submit a workshop report?
>
> Not applicable.
>
> 9.      Under which of the five IGF themes does the proposal fall under ?
>
>    - Multiligualization
>    - Critical Internet Resources
>    - Managing the Internet (Using the Internet)
>    - Arrangements for Internet Governance
>
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>
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