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• providing telecommunication networks to remote areas;
• elaborating information resource development programmes in
minority languages;
• promoting training in ICTs and information, especially in local
languages;
• promoting the creation of local content, translation and adaptation;
• promoting the translation of world literary classics into minority
languages, and of minority speakers into other languages, and posting
these translations online;
• establishing integrated multilingual information resource networks;
• introducing electronic documentation and record management in at
least two languages; and
• promoting the research and development of operating systems, search
engines and internet browsers, online dictionaries and term reference
books, and their adaptation to local demands.
Research Centres (Universities and Institutes for Scientific Research)
Research centres provide the theoretical basis for governmental and nongovernmental
efforts on multilingualism promotion and make fundamental
and relevant applied research. Their duties may comprise:
• studies of ethnic cultures, traditions and quotidian life;
• studies of languages and their history;
• studies of the current linguistic situation and related issues;
• studies of language-promoting policy and practice in other parts of
the country/world, display and dissemination of pioneer experience;
• elaboration of proposals on adapting cutting edge experience;
• elaboration and implementation of permanent monitoring tools to
measure language use by social groups;
• elaboration and implementation of permanent monitoring tools to
qualify and quantify the work of language-promoting institutions;
• proposals to the government for draft regulatory legislation on
language protection and promotion;
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