[WSIS CS-Plenary] WGIG (further): Issue papers available online

[Vittorio Bertola]

Martin - if you (and anyone else) would like your comments to be added
to the public record and taken into consideration by the WGIG, you
should send them to the WGIG secretariat at wgig at unog.ch. (Of course, we
will read and report them, but they will not officially "exist" if
they're not sent there.)

Il giorno mer, 09-02-2005 alle 19:09 -0300, Martin Olivera ha scritto:
> comments on cultural and linguistic diversity WGIG
> issue paper:
> 
> >"With the rapid proliferation of the Internet, one of
> >the biggest challenges facing the industry is
> >effectively catering to a wide array of national
> >regional and local markets by providing content
> >and applications that are adapted in accordance with
> >cultural and linguistic needs. Despite being
> >the dominant and most pervasive communications medium
> >and axis of modern economies, the
> >Internet can also be the unwitting vehicle for social
> >exclusion, suppression of vulnerable cultures
> >and language, and penalization of already
> marginalized >communities through the requirement to
> >learn and adopt alien culture and language in order
> to >partake of its promises."
> 
> That is the introduction, the "what?" section of the
> issue paper. I cannot understand why a paper of a
> United Nations working group should define the need of
> a cultural and linguistic diversity in Internet as a
> "challenge facing the industry". Cultural and
> linugistic diversity in Internet it is not an industry
> matter, it is society one.
> 
> There are interesting experiencies as translating the
> FLOSS OpenOffice to mayan languages in Guatemala, and
> it has nothing to do with industry, because it is not
> a matter of business or revenues, there are civil
> society groups as Academia de Lenguas Mayas, Free
> Software Community and  other NGOs as Fundacion
> Rigoberta Menchu involved. The industry is not the
> only way of doing things work. 
> 
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