[governance] IGF BPF on Local Content - call for contributions

[Daniel Pimienta]

My two cents and sorry if they are not consensual.

While it is more than welcomed to see the theme of cultural an 
linguistic diversity being addressed in IGF during the UNESCO year of 
indigenous languages the reading of the 6 questions which are supposed 
to structure the issue makes wonder if the focus is the appropriate.

Question 4 : How does the quality and type of their internet connection 
impact on the type of economic activity that women and LGBTQI engage in? 
For example, if they do not have access to affordable high speed 
broadband connectivity, or if their access is primarily through social 
networking platforms?Please list examples of how digital technologies 
and the Internet are used to promote, preserve and share local culture, 
history, language, heritage and content? Please add URLs or other 
references of these examples and provide a short description.

While I agree that gender is a priority transverse theme I wonder if 
gender and LGBT is really a priority focus when talking about preserving 
local language and cultures.

Question 5 :What type of economic activity do you think the BPF should 
focus its work on for us to come up with useful policy 
recommendations?Are there specific policy interventions and 
recommendations that the BPF should consider or develop in order to 
maximise the use of the Internet and digital technologies to help 
preserve, promote and share local language and cultural heritage?

Maximizing the use of digital technologies is certainly a legitimate 
objective for technology and application vendors yet it may not be the 
real issue while discussing local content production: how about focusing 
"meaningful use"  rather than "maximized use", production rather than 
consumption? What matters is probably much more related to the themes of 
/information literacy and localization of languages /than to broadband 
connectivity.

Daniel Pimienta
Observatory of languages and cultures in the Internet
http://funredes.org/lc


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