[At-Large] FW: ICANN Multilingualism and Information Usage Survey

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Dear All:

Any help you can provide with the below would be greatly appreciated!

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From: Nick Ashton-Hart <nick.ashton-hart at icann.org>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 08:26:05 +0200
To: <icann-staff at icann.org>
Conversation: ICANN Multilingualism and Information Usage Survey
Subject: ICANN Multilingualism and Information Usage Survey

Dear Colleagues:

As you may have noticed, today a survey was announced on icann.org which is designed to help us all understand better what information different stakeholder communities use, in particular where their first language is not english. This is a product of ICANN's translation committee (reachable at trans-comm at icann.org).

It is available in 11 languages including english. Needless to say, we really want to get as many responses to this as we can; it will help us all to understand the types of information most used by the existing community and it also provides us an opportunity to see what information the non-English fluent ICANN participant would use in their language(s).  We hope that this survey will help us reach out to groups of people who would be more active in ICANN issues, but have not been able to participate fully due to language issues; a surveying tool was used in order to make it easy for us to gather the community's views - there is even a live link to the results available which can be found on the announcement below.

The survey is also a key part of the response to the public consultation on ICANN's draft Translation Framework (available in multiple language versions from: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-13feb08.htm.

Since the announcement and the survey itself is available equally in all 11 languages, we hope you will help us by forwarding the announcement text to any language communities that you know, in the language or languages that will be most relevant to them - and ask them to pass it on.

The editions are as below:

Arabic: http://www.icann.org/ar/announcements/announcement-2-20may08-ar.htm
Chinese (simplified): http://www.icann.org/zh/announcements/announcement-2-20may08-zh.htm
English: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-20may08-en.htm
French: http://www.icann.org/fr/announcements/announcement-2-20may08-fr.htm
Spanish: http://www.icann.org/es/announcements/announcement-2-20may08-es.htm
Russian: http://www.icann.org/ru/announcements/announcement-2-20may08-ru.htm
Japanese: http://www.icann.org/ja/announcements/announcement-2-20may08-ja.htm
German: http://www.icann.org/de/announcements/announcement-2-20may08-de.htm
Portuguese: http://www.icann.org/pt/announcements/announcement-2-20may08-pt.htm
Korean: http://www.icann.org/ko/announcements/announcement-2-20may08-ko.htm
Italian: http://www.icann.org/it/announcements/announcement-2-20may08-it.htm

PS: If you are wondering how the languages were chosen, the answer is that they represent the 11 most popular languages in use on the Internet today.

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Regards,

Nick Ashton-Hart
Director for At-Large
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
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