[Air-l] [Fwd: MISTICA: Unesco/ITU Global Symposium on Promoting the Multilingual Internet]

[Michel J. Menou]

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Sujet: 	MISTICA: Unesco/ITU Global Symposium on Promoting the 
Multilingual Internet
Date: 	Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:09:45 -0400
De: 	Daniel Pimienta <pimienta at funredes.org>
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>Global Symposium on Promoting the Multilingual Internet
>Geneva, 9-11 May 2006
>
>Registration: On-line Registration
>Contact: multilingual at itu.int
>
>Introduction
>ITU and UNESCO are convening the Global Symposium on Promoting the 
>Multilingual Internet as a follow-up of Phase 2 of the World Summit 
>on the Information Society (WSIS). The Tunis Agenda for the 
>Information Society, adopted at the Tunis Phase of WSIS, highlights 
>the importance of multilingualism for bridging the digital divide. 
>It identifies ITU as taking the lead role in the implementation of 
>information and communication infrastructure (WSIS Tunis Agenda 
>Action Line C2), ITU/UNESCO for access o information and knowledge 
>(WSIS Tunis Agenda Action Line C3), and UNESCO for cultural 
>diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content (WSIS 
>Tunis Agenda Action Line C8).
>
>Objectives
>The symposium will examine issues highlighted in paragraph 53 of the 
>WSIS Tunis Agenda, including:
>Options for advancing the process for the introduction of 
>multilingualism in a number of areas including domain names, email 
>addresses and keyword look-up;
>Options for implementing programmes, also in cooperation with other 
>appropriate organizations, that allow for the presence of 
>multilingual domain names and content on the internet and the use of 
>various software models in order to fight against the linguistic 
>digital divide and ensure the participation of all in the emerging new society;
>Options for strengthening cooperation between relevant bodies for 
>the further development of technical standards and to foster their 
>global deployment;
>In addition the event will review technical solutions and current 
>experiences, identify open issues and discuss a roadmap for further 
>steps to promote multilingualism in the internet.
>
>Call for Contributions
>UNESCO and ITU are calling for written contributions on the themes 
>of the event and should be sent in final form to 
>multilingual at itu.int before 25 April 2006. Contributions will be 
>electronically available from the Symposium website in the language 
>received, for discussion at the meeting.


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Dr. Michel J. Menou
Consultant in ICT policies and Knowledge & Information Management
Adviser of Somos at Telecentros board http://www.tele-centros.org
Member of the founding steering committee of 
Telecenters of the Americas Partnership http://www.tele-centers.net/
B.P. 15
49350 Les Rosiers sur Loire, France
Email: Michel.Menou at wanadoo.fr
Phone: +33 (0)2 41511043
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/peoplemenou.php
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