New book on multilingualism in cyberspace

[Nick Thieberger]

UNESCO and Maaya have published a collection of papers related to
their approach to language diversity on the internet. It is freely
downloadable from the following site

http://net-lang.net/

The English version is here:
http://net-lang.net/externDisplayer/displayExtern/_path_/netlang_EN_pdfedition.pdf

CONTENTS

Forewords
Irina Bokova, General Director, UNESCO 13
Abdou Diouf, General Secretary, La Francophonie 17
José Luis Dicenta, General Secretary, Union Latine 21
Dwayne Bailey, Research Director, ANLoc 23
Daniel Prado, Executive Secretary, Maaya Network 27

Part 1 - When Technology Meets Multilingualism
Daniel Prado Language Presence in the Real World and Cyberspace 35
Michaël Oustinoff  English Won’t be the Internet’s Lingua Franca 53
Éric Poncet  Technological Innovation and Language Preservation 69
Maik Gibson  Preserving the Heritage of Extinct or Endangered Languages 75
Marcel Diki-Kidiri  Cyberspace and Mother Tongue Education 89
Part 2 - Digital Spaces
Stéphane Bortzmeyer  Multilingualism and the Internet’s Standardisation 105
Mikami Yoshiki & Shigeaki Kodama  Measuring Linguistic Diversity on the Web 119
Joseph Mariani  How Language Technologies Support Multilingualism 141
Vassili Rivron  The Use of Facebook by the Eton of Cameroon 161
Pann Yu Mon & Madhukara Phatak  Search Engines and Asian Languages 169
Hervé Le Crosnier  Digital Libraries 185
Dwayne Bailey  Software Localization: Open Source as a Major Tool for
Digital Multilingualism 205
Mélanie Dulong De Rosnay   Translation and Localization of Creative
Commons Licenses 221

Part 3 - Digital Multilingualism: Building Inclusive Societies
Viola Krebs & Vicent Climent-Ferrando   Languages, Cyberspace, Migrations 229
Annelies Braffort & Patrice Dalle  Accessibility in Cyberspace: Sign
Languages 249
Tjeerd de Graaf  How Oral Archives Benefit Endangered Languages 269
Evgeny Kuzmin  Linguistic Policies to Counter Languages Marginalization 287
Tunde Adegbola Multimedia and Signed, Written or Oral Languages 311
Adel El Zaim  Cyberactivism and Regional Languages in the 2011 Arab Spring 325
Adama Samassékou  Multilingualism,  the Millenium Development Goals,
and Cyberspace 337

Part 4 Multilingualism on the Internet : a Multilateral Issue
Isabella Pierangeli Borletti   Describing the World: Multilingualism,
the Internet, and Human Rights 351
Stéphane Bortzmeyer  Multilingualism and Internet Governance 373
Marcel Diki-Kidiri Ethical Principles Required for an Equitable
Language Presence in the Information Society 387
Stéphane Grumbach  The Internet in China 401
Michaël Oustinoff  The Economy of Languages 407
Daniel Prado & Daniel Pimienta  Public Policies for Languages in Cyberspace 423
Conclusion

the Future speaks, reads  and writes in all languages
Adama Samassékou President of Maaya