News: Cultural & linguistic diversity, Asia/Pacific

Young but experienced Cambodian NGO joins APC

analia — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:58:09 -0300

MONTREAL (FD for APCNews) -

APC welcomes its new Cambodian member, Open Institute. “We see ourselves as facilitators,” explained Chim Manavy, executive director of the start-up NGO. “We facilitate communication, knowledge-sharing and gender equity through the strategic use of ICT and of the Khmer language”. What this means on the ground, is easy to understand when one takes a look at the track record of OI’s colleagues.

“The discussion about diversity must not become diversity”

webmaster — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0200

TOKYO, JAPAN (Kuniomi Shibata) -

Over the past few years, a considerable number of discussions have been conducted on linguistic diversity in the online world. It has brought with it a controversy, in part due to the fact that the spread of the internet is frequently hailed as a cause for the loss of cultural diversity. At the recent Internet Governance Forum though, much attention was given to the protection of our linguistic diversity.

South Asia needs to talk across borders to solve language issue

webmaster — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:00:00 -0300

DHAKA, BANGLADESH (FN for APCNews) -

An Indo-Pakistan encounter, in war or cricket, leaves behind tonnes of bitterness and rivalry. But, in information and communication technology, the main regret facing techies from both sides of the troubled South Asian sub-continent, is why they can’t work more effectively together, to tackle the common problems their people face.