[Culturetalk] Outreach to increase use of under-representedlanguage online

Sat Nov 19 20:59:40 EST 2011

Bula Elise,

You are welcome.All the best with your conference.

 I am thankful that the right to  freedom of expression, that is vis a vis
Article 19 of the *Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)* and
C*onventions
on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
2005*, *Convention for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage*,
*International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,*  *C169 Indigenous and
Tribal Persons Convention* and other laws promotes cultural expression.

My observation of how our cousins in Asia such as Korea, Japan, India have
succeeded in leaps and bounds is because they have encouraged learning in
local languages and done what they can to ensure that this is preserved. In
the new millenium, with globalisation radically disintegrating notions of
borders through the creation of borderless world, and social utilities and
Applications (Apps) such as Facebook, Twitter etc have redefined social
networks, relationships and communications and created the phenomena of
"death of a distance".

It becomes increasingly important that in order to be relevant and stay
relevant that language and our stories be preserved and nurtured through
the evolving tools of communication. This is one of the reasons why I
promote the use of the internet to encourage local language preservation.
In places like Fiji, for instance, it can also be "dialects". This is what
is often referred to as "content".

Another development in the Internet world is the Internationalized Domain
Names (IDNs). This is where Domain Names are in Native scripts such as
Arabic etc. There were IDN Variant Issues Reports that were published
recently, you can access them here:
https://community.icann.org/display/alacpolicydev/At-Large+IDN+Variant+Issues+Project+Workspace

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Also within the realm of internet governance in the world, multilingualism
is a policy thematic area within ICT. I hope that the Pacific languages
will increase and it will be great that when the Leaders' Communique are
being published.

Best,

Sala

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Elise Huffer <EliseH at spc.int> wrote:

>  Bula vinaka Sala,****
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> Thanks for circulating information about this initiative. In February next
> year there will be a conference on ICT and culture – February 22-24th  at
> the University of the South Pacific and this would make for a useful topic
> and intervention. I see that there are four Pacific languages represented
> among the dialogue leaders – hope your message encourages wide Pacific
> interest and participation.****
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> Best,****
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> Elise****
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> *De :* culturetalk-bounces at lists.spc.int [mailto:
> culturetalk-bounces at lists.spc.int] *De la part de* Salanieta T.
> Tamanikaiwaimaro
> *Envoyé :* samedi 19 novembre 2011 20:23
> *À :* culturetalk at lists.spc.int
> *Objet :* [Culturetalk] Outreach to increase use of
> under-representedlanguage online****
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> Dear All,****
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> This was posted on the PICISOC list by Emani from Niue who is featured as
> a practitioner. It would be great if those from Fiji particularly the
> Ministry of Taukei Affairs got on board. It has been proven amongst the
> Basque speaking generation that having language represented online helps to
> keep the interests and enthusiasm and love for the language of the younger
> Basque speaking community. At some point, I would like to finish mapping
> what who is doing in the region. I was also very impressed with the
> Samoanisation of Technology presentation where I saw how the Samoans were
> doing their bits. For Pacific Islanders who have migrated to different
> parts of the earth, these sorts of initiatives can help maintain/preserve
> the local languages. For more information, email Emani on
> emani.flui at gmail.com ****
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> Even though most of the Pacific countries already have local languages
> hosted on the internet, we can do more, see links below:****
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> The dialogue is *NOW OPEN*!  Here’s a link to the dialogue page:****
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> http://www.newtactics.org/en/dialogue/using-citizen-media-tools-promote-under-represented-languages
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> You are welcome to start adding your comments to the following dialogue
> discussion threads (found on the dialogue page) at any time. ****
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> **·  **Why is a language underrepresented online?<http://www.newtactics.org/en/thread/why-language-underrepresented-online>
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> **·  **What steps need to be taken before an underrepresented language is
> used online?<http://www.newtactics.org/en/thread/what-steps-need-be-taken-underrepresented-language-used-online>
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> **·  **Share your stories<http://www.newtactics.org/en/thread/share-your-stories>
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> **·  **How do you build an online community committed to using this
> language online?<http://www.newtactics.org/en/thread/how-do-you-build-online-community-committed-using-language-online>
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> **·  **What steps are needed for outreach and encouragement of the next
> generation?<http://www.newtactics.org/en/thread/what-steps-are-needed-outreach-and-encouragement-next-generation>
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> -- ****
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> Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro aka Sala****
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> Tweeter: @SalanietaT****
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> Skype:Salanieta.Tamanikaiwaimaro****
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> Cell: +679 998 2851****
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