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

[Nyangkwe Agien Aaron (via governance Mailing List)]

Thanks Anriette,

H
When I Saw "women and Lgbt" linked, I Saw thé hand of the capitalist
establishment at work trying to spread its very dreadful agenda that is
anathema to certain cultures.

Aaron

On Sun, 20 Oct 2019, 14:11 Anriette Esterhuysen, <anriette at apc.org> wrote:

> 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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