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• establishing ethnic schools to intergenerationally transmit
experiences, traditions, culture and ethics;
• promoting the ethno-cultural component of education and extending
it wherever necessary and possible;
• equipping public schools with minority language and literature
classrooms;
• contracting the governments of other regions densely inhabited by
speakers of a particular language to assist in measures to preserve that
language, for example by supplying literature to public and school
libraries to enable the study of a given language, and participating
in the graduate and postgraduate training of teachers for ethnic
minorities; and
• creating graphic systems for non-literate languages.
Securing languages representation and development in cyberspace gains in
importance in the context of rapid Internet penetration in all spheres of modern
life. Use of ICT has both positive and negative consequences. On the one hand,
it may decrease linguistic and cultural diversity, on the other hand, it opens new
prospects for preserving and even developing languages and cultures in cyberspace.
Promoting linguistic and cultural diversity in cyberspace is a new field of action,
expanding our opportunities for preserving languages and cultures and for
extending the sphere of influence of under resourced languages rather promptly
and efficiently.
That is exactly why the Declaration of Principles of the World Summit on the
Information Society stresses that the Information Society should be founded
on and stimulate respect for cultural identity, cultural and linguistic diversity,
traditions and religions, and foster dialogue among cultures and civilizations.
The creation, dissemination and preservation of content in diverse languages
and formats must be accorded high priority in building an inclusive Information
Society. The development of local content suited to domestic or regional needs
will encourage social and economic development and will stimulate participation
of all stakeholders, including people living in rural, remote and marginal areas.
To promote multilingualism in cyberspace, authorities can take both general
and goal-oriented measures to create a multilingualism-friendly environment:
• designing and implementing ICT penetration programmes;
• drawing up action plans to promote public use of the Internet,
including information literacy programmes for both dominant and
minority languages;