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supporting multilingualism, particularly through proper usage of ICTs,
including multimedia.
Regional Level
At this level there are two complementary trends.
On the one hand, at the level of each region of the world (according to the
definition of the United Nations), it is necessary to encourage the creation of
a structure similar to what African Academy of Languages (ACALAN) is for
Africa, that is to say an intergovernmental scientific institution responsible
for the enhancement and promotion of the languages of the continent, in the
context of a continental language policy encouraging multilingualism and
convivial partnership between all the existing languages.
This institutional innovation could be reinforced with a more or less restricting
legal instrument, inspired by the «European Charter for Regional or Minority
Languages», yet with a permanent concern for equity between all the languages.
On the other hand, at the level of each organization engaged in the promotion
of one or several languages spoken in several regions in the world (OIF,
Commonwealth, Latin Union, Arab League, CPLP, etc.), it is necessary to
encourage them to leave the logic of defending a specific language or a group
of languages in order to resolutely commit themselves to the promotion of
languages co-existence and multilingualism.
International Level
The MAAYA World Network for Linguistic Diversity was established to
constitute a kind of international platform for a multistakeholder partnership
in order to safeguard linguistic diversity and promote multilingualism. The
existence of such organizations should make it possible to federate the initiatives
taken at the international level, both from the point of implementing all the
various declarations, resolutions and conventions dealing with multilingualism
and cultural and linguistic diversity (UNESCO,WSIS, UN, various regional
and interregional organizations, Lena Resolution, Bamako International
Forum on Multilingualism, etc.), and from the point of establishing a kind of
monitor structure, a world observatory for multilingualism.
The MAAYA Network and its founding organizations initiated the process
of the preparation for the World Summit on Multilingualism and this second
Yakutsk conference is seen as a preparatory step for it. The Summit should
permit to make concrete propositions at the highest level of the international
community, in order to promote multilingualism in the world both from
institutional and legal points of view, thus contributing to the global realization
of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and to the event of a World of
Peace based on the dialogue of cultures and civilizations.
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