Re: [wg-review] OUTREACH, EDUCATION AND MULTILINGUALISM

[Eric Dierker <Eric@HI-TEK.COM>]

My Dear friends and cooleagues(misspellings intentional),

    I have acquired the easiest and the hardest task in working in this
category, or these categories.  Hardest because of the task ahead and
easiest because of the task behind.

History:

    This is the easy part.  The only dissent when it came to the topics
was cost, and that was only conjecture, opinion as opposed to fact or
consensus.  As mush multilingualism as is practical, more education
about ICANN and the Internet, and reach more people and try not to turn
them off are all agreed upon aspirations.
If you think about it not even US presidential candidates never come out
against education, it is only a matter of central versus local control
and funding that are ever  issues.  Microsoft, Gateway, IBM, Mac just to
name a few big businesses all give generously to education.  As I said
that is the easy part.

    This working group and the one specifically mandated for this
purpose before WG-E (I believe that is for Eric) both came up with
overwhelming consensus, do more and do it now.

    At Melbourne I was treated to many wonderful experiences and the
simultaneous writing of words spoken was one of them.  I sat with many
ESL and EbaaSL (English barely as a Second Language) persons and the
help this gave them was tremendous.  Those techy types from Berkman were
awesome!!  For your next vacation, go Stockholm just to see that and it
will rival LegoLand.  My personal colleague from Viet Nam Mr. Thuy from
VNNIC, their registry director was aided greatly.  His active
understanding and participation in private conversations was enhanced by
the simulcast.  And think first; that was all in English but the written
confirmed his auditory and tripled his understanding, and second; how
much more he was able to bring back to his emerging economic nation to
help keep his nation from the growing pains we face with the Verisign
deal.  All this helped was one growing country with a mere 20 MILLION
PEOPLE.

    I also witnessed some very fine ladies exercise their deliberate
charisma in bringing forth bountiful examples of requests for tolerance
in language, which in our world means outreach and education.  I
witnessed no objection but instead applause and maybe only my own, but
tears.

    I post this now so that If there is dispute there is plenty of
notice and time for those who have it more mentally together than I to
point out problems, or wrongness in my statement.

    Unless there is great enlightenment to the contrary I proceed on the
notion that doing more is a foregone mandate.

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Here is the hard part:

    Depending upon response to the forgoing it will be by consensus that
more must be done and the NC and BoD must accept that truth.

    How to proceed;  This portion of this WG-review continues ad in
finitum until will assist our great leaders in determining cost
effective ways to increase OUTREACH, EDUCATION AND MULTILINGUALISM.
    Over the next several months I do not want to hear argument for or
against.  I want, like Mr. Sheppard said to find positive, constructive
answers to our questions. I want those of you who listen but do not
speak to tap your friend on the shoulder and say "Can't you translate,
or doesn't your company have a multilingual department, or maybe, you
know I really need some help here and I think it can benefit both of us,
or wouldn't it be cool if our school synagogue, temple or church helped
that nation by providing translation."  Mr. Cerf was right bad
translation is worse that no translation, but for some reason I doubt
that he has ever had the pleasure of exchanging pictures of family with
a shoeshine boy and spending two hours learning to say "I have worries
too, can I email you?".

    I have the overwhelming pleasure, acting in order to create a
revenue stream, to build technology schools in places where they need
100,000 technicians tomorrow.  Can you imagine the problems are the same
- $$$$$.

    think of this; Me, Southern californian, birthright arizona high
desert, educated western world wide conversing with Ethiopian aids
victim, or Tibetan  Monk and explaining an ISP is just around the
corner, hot diggity dog things get real equal real fast.  Knowledge is
power, and power is the control of knowledge(ed2001)
On the other hand if you are opposed to education, speak your piece.
Let me know so I can delicately place within the report.

Sincerely,

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