New book on multilingualism in cyberspace

Wed Mar 7 16:45:30 UTC 2012

Dear Dave:
Thanks for sharing the information about the book. It is a great resource.
Regards,
Francisco

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From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dave Pearson
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 5:47 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] New book on multilingualism in cyberspace

Dear All,

Next week will see the launch of a new book: NET.LANG: towards the multilingual cyberspace<http://net-lang.net/lang_en>. You can download the pdf version either in English<http://net-lang.net/externDisplayer/displayExtern/_path_/netlang_EN_pdfedition.pdf> or French<http://www.maayajo.org/IMG/pdf/Net.lang_FR_livre-2.pdf> free of charge. I have pasted the table of contents below.

Dave Pearson
SIL International

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

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