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

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Dear Daniel

Someone else also just pointed that out to me that there are errors in
the online form.  The first part of  question 4 was not supposed to be
there. It was part of the call for input for the Gender and Access BPF.
When the Secretariat's tech support people put the call, they must have
used the Gender call as a basis, and then accidentally left in some
parts of the other call's questions.

My apologies. It is confusing.

Question 4 was supposed to just be:

4. 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.

Question 5 was supposed to just be:

5. 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?

Your point about meaningful is important. It would have been a better
term. I hope you put that in your response.

Thanks

Anriette

On 2019/10/20 13:37, Daniel Pimienta wrote:
>
> 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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