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linkages and coordination of efforts with the federation, states and
municipalities.
2. To encourage the use of the national languages in governmental
practice and daily life, and
3. To ensure linguistic planning at national level with focus on the
formalization of the national indigenous languages (cataloguing)
and the standardization of writing, grammars and dictionaries and
specialized lexicons.
However, it should be noted that while the indigenous population is not able to
seize the institutional framework that has been described, it is harder to reach
more ambitious development goals. The only way out is organizing intensive
diffusion campaigns to show that it is possible to break the cycle of poverty
and discrimination, historically associated with the use and preservation of
indigenous languages.
In addition, jointly defining objectives and working out clear strategies
international agencies, developers, and users of cyberspace would be able to:
1. Establish leadership to promote awareness, respect and the
strengthening of the global, regional and local cultural and linguistic
diversity.
2. Reinforce support programmes to install infrastructure and
equipment, as well as develop focused applications to revitalize and
fortify linguistic diversity.
Cyberspace as a Window of Opportunity for Diversity
Today the options that cyberspace and public media provide are essential to
make visible and to spread knowledge about the social and regional realities of
minority groups, traditionally excluded and isolated.
The expansion of coverage and the accelerated growth of cyberspace and its
applications, offer new opportunities to developers and users for revitalizing,
strengthening and developing the cultural and linguistic diversity at all levels.
At the same time, cyberspace is an “ideal place” where respect, freedom and
democracy prevail, representing a real and huge “window of opportunity”,
allowing “the others” to be “visible and audible”, to communicate among
themselves and to share their ideas and creations with others.
According to a recent United Nations report by Frank La Rue (UN Human
Rights Council, 2011) Internet is a medium where the right to freedom of
expression can be exercised; and that access should be included by the Member
States as a human right to develop effective policies to achieve universal access.
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