[Air-l] Hungarian and others

[Mark Warschauer]

Partly it's out of date but also it's skewed by 
measuring pages on secure servers.  Those are 
largely used for e-commerce and a very high 
proportion of them are in English (or at least 
were in English as of 2001, it's hard to say how 
that might have changed by now).

I've got a couple of studies somewhere 
(referenced in the draft UNESCO report mentioned 
by Elijah).  I'll try to dig them out.
Mark


>Thank you for the correction. My information 
>came from Robert Kozma’s article in 
>International Journal of Educational Development 
>24 (2004). Although recently published, Kozma 
>quotes a study by the Organization for Economic 
>Cooperation and Development from 2001 that puts 
>the world’s Internet content at 94% in English, 
>“as measured by the number of links to pages on 
>secured servers” (p. 362).
>The information very well might be dated.
>Jarek
>
>About 10% of the world's population has access 
>to the Internet but 97% of web sites are 
>designed in English. If you need reference for 
>these statistics let me know but unless we 
>recognize the importance and validity of other 
>languages in cyberspace, we can find ourselves 
>on the receiving end of the global spectrum.
>
>If anything, we should encourage research and 
>scholarly contribution in other, lesser known 
>(to the English-speaking world) languages.
>
>Jarek
>
>Mark Warschauer
>Associate Professor, Dept. of Education and Dept. of Informatics
>University of California, Irvine
>tel: (949) 824-2526,  fax: (949) 824-2965
>markw at uci.edu; http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw
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