DAY 1 - 9 MAY 2006
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08:30 - 09:30 |
REGISTRATION |
09:30 - 09:55 |
OPENING SESSION
Symposium Chairman: Direk Charoenphol (National Telecommunications
Commission, NTC, Thailand)
Welcome address and opening remarks:
- Houlin Zhao (Director of TSB) [BIO]
[SPEECH]
- Elizabeth Longworth (Director, Information Society Division,
UNESCO) [BIO] [SPEECH]
Symposium objectives and organization: Direk Charoenphol (NTC
Thailand) |
10:00 - 10:45 |
Introduction:
Chairman: Adama Samassékou (African Academy of Languages - ACALAN) [BIO]
- Inclusion of a Language on the Internet: What is needed?:
Marcel Diki-Kidiri (CNRS)
[BIO] [ABSTRACT] [PRESENTATION] [PAPER]
- Culturally-appropriate Local Environments and a Global
Internet: John Klensin (Internet Society - ISOC)
[BIO] [ABSTRACT] [PRESENTATION]
[PAPER]
- From oral language to digital objects: the UNESCO’s
contribution for the inclusion of languages and local content in
cyberspace: Cláudio Menezes (UNESCO)
[BIO] [ABSTRACT] [PRESENTATION]
[PAPER]
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10:45 - 11:05 |
Coffee Break |
11:05 - 12:45 |
Session 1 –
Standards and technical solutions
Chairman: Reinhard Scholl (TSB Deputy Director)
Debate, input for Session 10 |
13:05 - 14:05 |
Lunch Break |
14:30 - 16:10 |
Session 2 – IDN
operational experience showcase
Chairman: Ayman El-Sherbiny (United Nations, ESCWA)
- A contribution to the exchange of information and know-how in multiple languages: Fay Howard (CENTR)
[BIO] and Marcel Schneider (SWITCH) [ABSTRACT]
[PRESENTATION]
- CJK Experiences and CNNIC’s Contribution to the Multilingual Internet: Feng Wang (CNNIC)
[BIO]
[ABSTRACT]
[PRESENTATION]
- Africa: Mouhamet Diop (Next SA)
[BIO] [ABSTRACT] [PRESENTATION]
- Development of Arabic Domain Names System- UN ESCWA perspective: Ayman El-Sherbiny (United Nations, ESCWA)
[BIO]
[ABSTRACT]
[PRESENTATION]
- Arab League Arabic Domain Names (ADN) Pilot Project: Imad Al-Sabouni (Ministry Communications Damascus, Syria)
[BIO]
[ABSTRACT]
[PRESENTATION]
[PAPER]
Debate, input for Session 10 |
16:10 - 16:30 |
Coffee Break |
16:30 - 17:30 |
Session 3-
Scripting operational experiences
Chairman: Tarcísio Della Senta (UNDL Foundation)
- Scripts Encoding Initiatives – Africa: Michael Everson (Evertype)
[BIO]
[ABSTRACT]
[PRESENTATION]
- Experience with language implementations in ATAMIRI: Iván Guzmán de Rojas (IGRAL)
[BIO] [ABSTRACT]
[PAPER]
- Speech mining to make African oral patrimony accessible: Nimaan Abdilahi (Université d'Avignon)
[BIO] [ABSTRACT]
[PRESENTATION]
[DEMO]
Debate, input for Session 10 |
DAY 2 - 10 MAY 2006
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09:30 - 10:50 |
Session 4:
Thematic Session on Domain Name Registries Perspective
Chairman: Cary Karp (MUSEDOMA) [BIO]
Debate, input for Session 10 |
10:50 - 11:10 |
Coffee Break |
11:10 - 12:30 |
Session 5:
Thematic Session on development and promotion of local content over
Internet
Chairman: Elizabeth Longworth (UNESCO) [BIO]
CONTRIBUTIONS
Debate, input for Session 10 |
12:30 - 14:30 |
Lunch Break |
14:30 - 15:45 |
Session 6:
Thematic Session on Advancing the Deployment of IDN
Chairman: Khaled Fattal (MINC) [BIO] [PRESENTATION]
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15:45 - 16:05 |
Coffee Break |
16:05 - 17:30 |
Session 6:
Thematic Session on Advancing the Deployment of IDN (continued)
- Status of full Russian and Cyrillic language Internet names
in Russia: Sergey Sharikov (Cyrillic Language Working Group-CLWG)
[BIO] [ABSTRACT] [PRESENTATION]
- Tamil Language Computing and IDN: S. Maniam (IDN Working
Group INFITT)
[BIO] [ABSTRACT] [PRESENTATION]
- Persian IDN at .IR ccTLD Registry: Alireza Saleh (IRNIC)
[BIO] [ABSTRACT] [PRESENTATION]
Debate, input for Session 10 |
DAY 3 - 11 MAY 2006
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09:30 -10:30 |
Session 7:
Thematic Session on Hardware and Software for Multilingual Internet
Chairman: Cláudio Menezes (UNESCO) [BIO]
- Challenges of creating terms for localisation into
Developing Languages: the Case of Kiswahili terms for the
KiLinux Project: Seleman S. Sewangi (University of
Dar-el-Salaam, Tanzania)
[BIO] [ABSTRACT] [PRESENTATION]
- Free Open Source Software for facilitating language flows:
Dawit Bekele (University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
[BIO] [ABSTRACT] [PRESENTATION]
Debate, input for Session 10 |
10:30 - 10:45 |
Coffee Break |
10:45 - 12:15 |
Session 8
Thematic Session on Measuring Linguistic Diversity on the Internet
Chairman: Adama Samassékou (ACALAN)
- Language Observatory Project : Ahmad Zaki Abu Bakar (Universiti
Teknologi Malaysia)
[BIO] [ABSTRACT] [PRESENTATION]
- Reliable methodologies for Measuring Linguistic Diversity on the Internet:
Daniel Pimienta (Networks and Development Foundation- FUNREDES)
[BIO] [ABSTRACT] [PRESENTATION]
- Presence of Language in the Knowledge Society:
Daniel Prado (Union latine)
[BIO] [ABSTRACT] [PRESENTATION]
- World Network for Linguistic Diversity: Viola Krebs
(ICVolunteers)
[BIO] [ABSTRACT] [PRESENTATION]
Debate, input for Session 10 |
12:15 - 13: 45 |
Lunch Break |
13:45 - 14:45 |
Session 9:
Thematic Session on Multilingualism in practice
Chairman: Louis Pouzin (Native Language Internet Consortium - NLIC) [BIO] [PAPER]
Debate, input for Session 10 |
14:45 - 15:05 |
Coffee Break |
15:05 - 16:05 |
Session 10:
Conclusions and recommendations of thematic sessions
Discussion |
16:05 - 16:25 |
Coffee Break |
16:25 - 17:15 |
Session 11 –
Presentation of results, chairman’s report and future actions
Chairman: Direk Charoenphol (NTC Thailand)
Chairman's Summary Report and Recommendations
Presentation of roadmap
Discussion |
17:15 - 17:30 |
Closing Session
Symposium Chairman: Direk Charoenphol (NTC Thailand)
- Final remarks:
- Houlin Zhao (TSB Director)
- Elizabeth Longworth (Director, Information Society Division, UNESCO)
- Closing: Direk Charoenphol (NTC Thailand)
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