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(Bamako, 2009), and the first and second international seminars on
multilingualism in cyberspace (Barcelona, 2009 and Brasilia, 2011) allow to
compare opinions of the main experts, disseminate best practices and make
decisions to improve the role of languages in knowledge.
Promotion and research initiatives came out of these meetings, such as
Net.Lang, Dilinet and Voices and Texts.
Net.Lang, a book that is due for publication in October 2011 in English and French
(and other languages later on), brings together the most eminent people active
in promoting linguistic diversity in cyberspace so as to provide all possible ways
forward in giving languages the best instruments for their inclusion in cyberspace.
Some 30 articles and texts by politicians and researchers should help raise awareness
of all those who can have a decision-making role in the dynamic of languages. The
hard copy of the book, and various digital formats free of charge and with universal
access on the Internet (ePub, PDF, etc.), will be distributed worldwide.
Dilinet is a research project that will facilitate the elaboration of indicators
for the presence of (all) languages in cyberspace. The indicators, as we know,
are the instruments that enable us to direct policies. And we feel a crying lack
of them, as regards languages. The main laboratories and entities dedicated
to this research, together with serious institutional partners and private
companies should enable us, through Dilinet, to monitor closely the evolution
of languages in cyberspace.
Voices and Texts, an upcoming project, will aim at applying voice recognition,
machine translation and voice synthesis technologies to certain languages,
giving them access to a series of software packages and many applications using
these languages.
However, promotion and research are not enough. MAAYA is present in
international forums trying to regulate and encourage the flourishing of all
languages in the shared knowledge society, particularly those that came out of
the World Summit on the Information Society, as sub-moderator for Action
Line C8 (Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content)
and lead moderator for the Dynamic Coalition for Linguistic Diversity in the
context of the Internet Governance Forum.
MAAYA will be present in these major undertakings ahead of us so as to ensure
that every of the world’s languages occupies its rightful place and guarantee
the right of its speakers to use it fully.
We are also glad to participate in the 2 nd International Conference on Linguistic
and Cultural Diversity in Cyberspace in Yakutsk. We hope that any resolutions
adopted here will help us make a reality of the idea of a world that is fairer,
better balanced and more harmonious.
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