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The NEFU Development Programme includes elaborating a hardware and
software system in 2011 that will be used to provide both high-performance
computing and secure storage of large volumes of information resources
and their prompt accessibility. It will also serve as a basis to create a NEFU
repository of information and educational digital resources in the languages of
small peoples of the North-East of Russia, including digitized copies of books
and documents, electronic manuals and teaching aids, cinema and video films,
audio recordings, etc. It will also allow free downloading of digitized copies
of text and multimedia materials for those owners who would like to provide
a free access to their resources but do not have sufficient technical capacities.
We plan to put in place a free and open repository of information and educational
digital resources in the languages of small peoples of the North-East of Russia
and the Arctic regions transmitted by their authors and owners for secure
storage and non-commercial use for educational purposes; to form an integrated
catalogue of Internet resources; an to organize off-campus education projects
with the help of the integrated catalogue and repository to boost interest in
and use of Internet resources in the languages of small peoples of the North-
East of Russia among speakers themselves, particularly among the youth.
On June 9, 2011 UNESCO and the NEFU signed a treaty to establish the
University-based UNESCO Chair “Adaptation of Society and Man in Arctic
Regions in the Context of Climate Change and Globalization.”
The Chair is inter-departmental and aims at addressing issues of adaptation
of both the society and man in Arctic regions by establishing international
scientific and educational collaboration, raising awareness of the population
by means of modern information and telecommunications technologies and
forming an Internet information environment on the issues of Arctic regions.
The Chair will promote cooperation between the outstanding scientists of
the NEFU and other universities of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the
Russian Federation, as well as foreign countries.
The Constitution of the Russian Federation begins with the following words:
“We, the multinational people of the Russian Federation…”, and we must
constantly bear in mind that Russia is a poly-ethnic State. According to the
2002 population census there are 180 ethnic communities living in Russia.
Over the last decade, focus has been on the language policy. The Republic of
Sakha (Yakutia) could be considered polylingual. We understand that, with all
the importance of bilingual motivation, it is linguo-ecological motivation that
has a crucial role to play, which implies preserving and developing languages of
all peoples, expanding their application and use.
I am convinced that our conference will contribute to the further development
of linguistic and cultural diversity in cyberspace.
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