[governance] Communication Challenges [Brainstorming]

[michael gurstein]

I suggest that we include Daniel Pimienta in this discussion (I'm copying
this to him although I believe he is on this list...

Daniel has devoted a very considerable amount of time and skill to dealing
with precisely this issue. I'm not clear what the state of the art is but
I'm sure he could tell us.

M

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Subject: Re: [governance] Communication Challenges [Brainstorming]

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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