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the fact that in 2010, Evgeny Kuzmin, Committee Chair and ILCC’s President,
was elected the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Council of the UNESCO
Information for All Programme. Today ILCC acts not only as the working body
for the Russian Committee of the UNESCO Information for All Programme,
but also as the Secretariat for the Intergovernmental Council Chairman.
Promoting linguistic diversity in cyberspace is a cross-cutting issue of the
UNESCO Information for All Programme, and the Russian IFAP Committee
and ILCC have been working in this field for about 5 years. On the order of
the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO we prepared national
report on measures taken to implement the UNESCO Recommendation
concerning the Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and Universal Access
to Cyberspace. We investigated the state of the art in the area in Russia and
worldwide and recognized that not a single attempt had ever been made in
Russia to conduct a systematic study and search for solution of the problem of
language promotion in cyberspace, and especially from the political viewpoint,
despite the fact that we have numerous highly experienced linguists and
efficient politicians tackling the issues of cultural diversity.
We have translated into Russian and published the works by prominent world
experts in the area of multilingualism and cultural diversity development, and
have prepared a number of original publications:
• “Measuring Linguistic Diversity on the Internet” (the book by John
Paolillo, Daniel Prado and Daniel Pimienta translated into Russian).
• “Comment assurer la presence d’une langue dans le cyberespace”
(Russian translation of the book by Marcel Diki-Kidiri comprises
practical recommendations on facilitating the process of increasing
the number of languages presented and used in cyberspace through
developing linguistic and information resources, cultural components
and supporting user communities).
• “Multilingualism in Russia: Regional aspects” (the book covers
linguistic policies in several multinational and multilingual Russian
regions, as well as activities by major regional libraries related to
multilingualism promotion).
• “Preservation of Linguistic Diversity: Russian Experience” (the
publication in English examines practical experience and efforts
made at various political levels and by various institutions to support
multilingualism).
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