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Is English becoming endangered online?

This post examines multilingualism on the Internet, some of the anticipated benefits and concerns, as well as the impact of this paradigm on English, which traditionally has been the language of the Internet.



Did you know that: -

  • Approximately 80% of the world’s population does not speak English?
  • In 2000, over 70% of all web pages were in English, but current estimates are that about 50% of all web pages are in English?
  • One…
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Added by Michele Marius on December 5, 2011 at 1:59am — 3 Comments

African languages on the cyber space

Hey people!

 

Have you heard of the Academy of African languages? The guys over there are seriously looking into the African languages and the cyerspace.  I have me a few questions:

  1. What African languages are on the net?
  2. Who is putting African languages on the net?
  3. What are the most important languages that need to be on the net?
  4. What are your personal thoughts?

Gimme a shout!

 

 

Added by Nnenna Nwakanma on May 30, 2011 at 12:14pm — No Comments

One of the main sessions: Access and Diversity #p7

Here are some brief notes concerning the session named 'Access and Diversity'.



The difference between IGF 2009 and IGF 2010, when it comes to access and diversity topics, is that last year in Sharm el Sheikh these topics were separated, but in Vilnius these topics are consolidated.



As for the access they discussed two issues: access to infrastructure and access to content, emphasizing that the topics related to regulatory issues will be addressed tomorrow.…



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Added by Maša Kojić on September 16, 2010 at 5:04pm — No Comments

Workshop 318 - Promoting Cultural Diversity through Cultural Heritage in Cyberspace

Various issues were raised such as dealing with material that is still under copyright and those to which copyright no longer applies as well as organisations doing their own projects such as Google and their digitizing of books project.



Panel of experts from Arab states and UNESCO among others discussed various issues and provided examples of initiatives in countries like Egypt and India. A new way to deal with access to publications and payment was mentioned. Some initiatives such… Continue

Added by Marsha Guthrie on November 18, 2009 at 5:21pm — No Comments

The new system of governance?

I would like to tell you a story.



Once upon a time, a very long time ago, when I was just a little girl and the internet hadn’t been invented yet, my friend Michael and I were fascinated by the idea of space. Space hadn’t really been invented yet either, so for us in our small country primary school it was a place where anything could be possible. This story begins such an unimaginably long time ago that it even pre-dates television. We listened to the wireless – it hadn’t evolved… Continue

Added by Deirdre Williams on July 27, 2009 at 2:13pm — 1 Comment

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