Making technology speak your language (fwd link)

[Te Taka Keegan]

I'd be really interested to hear about the "war" Google and Microsoft are
waging against the presence of languages on the Internet. Any chance you can
summarise what was said?

Thanks heaps

Te Taka Keegan

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Dave Pearson <dave_pearson at sil.org> wrote:

> Thanks for this Phil. Today I was at a meeting in UNESCO HQ in Paris
> listening to a French Internet expert describing the “war” Google and
> Microsoft are waging against the presence of languages on the Internet.
> Meanwhile, my colleague Bill was in a different part of the building
> listening to a Microsoft presentation illustrating all the good things they
> are doing to ensure their presence!
>
> Dave Pearson
> SIL International
>
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> Subject: [ILAT] Making technology speak your language (fwd link)
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> Making technology speak your language
>
> Tuesday, 23 February 2010
> UK
>
> Microsoft and UNESCO are working together to help people across the
> globe access technology in their own languages.
>
> According to recent reports, one of more than 7,000 languages spoken
> on Earth disappears from the face of our planet every 14 days;
> forgotten languages take with them often unrecorded cultural
> traditions, language-specific histories and thousands of years of
> knowledge.
>
> Half of the languages spoken around the world today are expected to
> die out by the end of the 21st century.
>
> Technology has brought this world many fantastic - and live-saving
> inventions. It has also been influential in the segregation and
> isolation of millions of people who can't speak or understand the
> dominant languages used in the computing world.
>
> UNESCO is working with a number of technology partners to ensure
> native languages are not lost.
>
> Access full article below:
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/making-technology-speak-your-language-1908197.html
>



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nāku noa nei, nā

Te Taka

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Pukenga Matua   [Senior Lecturer]
Tari Rorohiko       [Computer Science Dept]
Whare Wananga o Waikato [University of Waikato]
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