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?<div><br></div><div>Thanks heaps</div>
<div><br></div><div>Te Taka Keegan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Dave Pearson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave_pearson@sil.org">dave_pearson@sil.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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!<br>
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Dave Pearson<br>
SIL International<br>
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Subject: [ILAT] Making technology speak your language (fwd link)<br>
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Making technology speak your language<br>
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010<br>
UK<br>
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Microsoft and UNESCO are working together to help people across the<br>
globe access technology in their own languages.<br>
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According to recent reports, one of more than 7,000 languages spoken<br>
on Earth disappears from the face of our planet every 14 days;<br>
forgotten languages take with them often unrecorded cultural<br>
traditions, language-specific histories and thousands of years of<br>
knowledge.<br>
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Half of the languages spoken around the world today are expected to<br>
die out by the end of the 21st century.<br>
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Technology has brought this world many fantastic - and live-saving<br>
inventions. It has also been influential in the segregation and<br>
isolation of millions of people who can't speak or understand the<br>
dominant languages used in the computing world.<br>
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UNESCO is working with a number of technology partners to ensure<br>
native languages are not lost.<br>
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Access full article below:<br>
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/making-technology-speak-your-language-1908197.html" target="_blank">http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/making-technology-speak-your-language-1908197.html</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>nāku noa nei, nā<br> <br>Te Taka<br> <br>-------------- <br>Te Taka Keegan, PhD<br> <br>Pukenga Matua [Senior Lecturer] <br>Tari Rorohiko [Computer Science Dept] <br>
Whare Wananga o Waikato [University of Waikato]<br>Waea: (07) 838 4420 Ph: (07) 838 4420 <br><a href="http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~tetaka">http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~tetaka</a> <br>----------------------------------------------------------- <br>
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