[governance] More multilingual IGF?

[Imran Ahmed Shah]

Meeting Sessions UNO & ICANN are also translated in multiple languages where the 
speaker may speak any one of them.
 
ICANN has arranged a discussion round at ICANN's 36th Meeting at Seoul and that 
compromises on 5 or 6 round tables and each table has participants of one of the 
5 (UNO official) languages inclkuding Korean. However, at that time the 
organizer was speaking English. 

 
B/R
Imran


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From: Imran Ahmed Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com>
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Karim ATTOUMANI 
<karim.attoumanimohamed at ties.itu.int>; Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org>
Cc: Imran UISoc <imran at UISoc.org>
Sent: Thu, 16 September, 2010 19:13:30
Subject: Re: [governance] More multilingual IGF?

Hi, Izumi and all,

By the way during some sessions speakers or presenters are already speaking 
non-English language and the their words are being translated accordingly. For 
example the following session was non-english and also had been translated 
accordingly:

IGF2010 Day-1
Date: 14/09/2010
    IGF Press Conference with 
    IGF Chair the Lithuanian Minister of Transport and Communications Eligijus 
Masiulis and 

    Assistant Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA Jomo 
Kwame Sundaram.

Imran Ahmed Shah

Founder & Executive Member
Urdu Internet Society



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From: Karim ATTOUMANI <karim.attoumanimohamed at ties.itu.int>
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org>
Sent: Thu, 16 September, 2010 19:11:03
Subject: Re: [governance] More multilingual IGF?

Izumi and all, 

Thank you first for your proposal and I totaly support this idea in the sense 
that if we promote the participation of everyone in this multi-stakeholders 
concept, we should find ways of inclusive participation as multi-liguages. If 
each participant can say what he thinks when needed without having to learn a 
language, it would be great and pratical. 

It's a great idea that deserves the support of everyone and that will bring more 
to the internet that we do not imagine now. 

It'll be easy for everyone to contribute in IG debate

Regards
Karim ATTOUMANI MOHAMED
Comoros GAC member,
Taking part on the ISOC NGL Programme 
with DiploFoundation

Le 16/09/2010 14:41, Izumi AIZU a écrit : 
In the workshop this morning on Innovative Internet Governance Ideas and 
Approaches, I came to an idea and spoke it -  Why don't we try to make some of 
the IGF sessions for the next round more "multi-lingual"? Depending on the 
subject and speakers or organizers, some session's working language can be 
Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian or Arabic, all major UN languages. Current 
default for almost ALL sessions, main session or workshop or open space are all 
done in English as the main/working language while other languages are 
translated.  I don't mean to make all equal. Some sessions can use non-English 
languages as the primary language, say Spanish on certain cases.  I spoke this 
idea with Nitin casually and he said nothing prohibits it from happening. I am 
happy to listen more presentations in French, say so long as they are translated 
into English.  This may increase the sense of ownership for many non-English 
speaking people and also create more level playing field. Real main session can 
still remain in English, and also working language as well.  Just a suggestion.  
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