[governance] Re: Preparar los puntos de vista

[Koven Ronald]

Dear All --


Just who do you think will pay for interpretation into 6 languages ? French and English are the official working languages of the UN system, and UN meetings in those 2 languages is standard. Interpretation in all 6 official UN languages is the exception, not the rule. When still other languages are requested, the interpreters must be paid for by the governments requesting them. 


Given that UNESCO has lost 22% of its budget because of US law and is involved in drastic budget-cutting, you are unlikely to get a very sympathetic hearing for a demand of more than the standard working languages. 


There's also a problem of the image that civil society projects. If it is even more demanding of pricey services than even member-state governments are, it risks coming across as demanding spoiled children.


Bests, Rony Koven



-----Original Message-----
From: Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>
To: governance <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>; Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com>
Cc: José Félix Arias Yn
 che <jaryn56 at gmail.com>
Sent: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:30 pm
Subject: Re: [governance] Re: Preparar los puntos de vista


Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:

> However since there is the possibility of remote participation - and I
> imagine that with UNESCO we can rely on the availability of
> interpretation as well???

I don't know about the IGF "open consultations" specifically, but at
the main WSIS+10 conference, the main sessions and *some* of the
workshop will have interpretation into French. I haven't heard anything
about provisions for Spanish or any other language besides English.

Do we have consensus that if the "open consultations" don't support at
least the five UN languages, including for remote participants, they're
definitely not open enough?

If we have agreement on this point, that's something that I could point
out while there.

Greetings,
Norbert


 
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