[governance] Communication Challenges [Brainstorming]

[Norbert Bollow]

Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

> Is Spanish the only language we have this issue with?

Right now it seems to be a particularly urgent specifically with regard
to Spanish, since we have a Spanish-speaking colleague whose interest
in actively participating here in the Internet Governance Caucus (IGC)
is obviously very great even despite the very substantial language
barrier. 

> Or would this be a pilot that could/would be expanded to other
> languages if it worked well?

That's what I've been thinking, with just a very slight difference of
emphasis in that I wanted to emphasize that creating such Language
Community Caucuses is something that would always be in the hands of
people of that particular language community. That's why I wrote: "If
this works well, maybe it'll set a good example that could be followed
by other language groups.

> One thing, I think that extra time would need to be built into the
> schedules to handle this.

Yes, absolutely.

Greetings,
Norbert


> On 15 Feb 2013, at 05:17, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> 
> > Sala <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> How can we turn this challenge of communication into an
> >> opportunity? Any thoughts?
> > 
> > Maybe this experience of communication problems can serve as a
> > motivation to create a "Spanish Language Caucus" for
> > 
> > a) discussion in Spanish of global information society issues;
> > 
> > b) discussion of information society issues concerning specifically
> >   users of the Spanish language;
> > 
> > c) selecting Ambassadors, trusted by the "Spanish Language Caucus"
> >   community, who able to communicate in English as well as in
> > Spanish, and who would be willing to engage in global fora on
> > behalf of Spanish speakers who don't have sufficient English
> > language skills to be able to effectively engage directly
> > 
> > ?
> > 
> > Of course the Ambassadors would report back to the "Spanish Language
> > Caucus", etc.
> > 
> > If this works well, maybe it'll set a good example that could be
> > followed by other language groups.
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > Norbert
> > 
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