[WSIS CS-Plenary] Translation Issues

[Angelica Abdallah]

Hola a todos
Yo entiendo que el equipo de traductores debería estar previsto al menos
para cumplir con los idiomas oficilaes de la CMSI y fundamentalmente, para
facilitar la participación "mundial".
Traductores voluntarios?  Es posible.
Pero si no es posible por medio de voluntariado, entiendo que entre las
"entidades involucradas" en la CMSI debe haber muchas, sobre todo en el área
de medios de comunicación, que podrían ayudar a resolver este problema.
Si dentro del presupuesto de la CMSI no se consideró el costo de traducir al
español por ejemplo, algunos de esos medios podrían hacer el aporte
necesario para "auspiciar" las traducciones necesarias.

Este no es un evento menor.  Y el tema del idioma, la comprensión y la
participación no son detalles menores tampoco.

Hello everybody
I understand that the team of translators should be foreseen at least to
fulfill the official languages of the CMSI and fundamentally, to facilitate
the world participation.
Voluntary translators?  It's possible.
But if it is not possible by means of volunteering, I understand that among
the entities involved in the CMSI it should have many, mainly in the media
area that  could help to solve this problem.
If in the budget of the CMSI it was not considered the cost of translating
for example to Spanish, some of those means could make the necessary
contribution to sponsor the necessary translations.

This is not a smaller event.  And the topic of the language, the
understanding and the participation are not neither smaller details.

Please excuse possible errors in my English.

Angelica Abdallah García


----- Original Message -----
From: "karen banks" <karenb at gn.apc.org>
To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 7:06 AM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Translation Issues


> hi everyone
>
> a very brief response to the last few postings as far as i'm able to
understand
>
> maria - i *think* you thank various efforts to voluntarily translate
(some)
> postings in this PLENARY list into spanish but note that the lack of
> translation services from the WSIS secretariat is of great concern and a
> source of great frustration for spanish speaking participants (for
example,
> with respect the current declaration - which i think is still only
> available in english)
>
> sonia and alcimar echoe your concerns and also raise the issue of
> portuguese speaking participants?
>
> one of the coordination elements proposed is to form a translation team
> which could work with the WSIS translation voluntary services (ICV and
> netaid of UNV) to improve some aspects of communication (online and
> on-site). This could certainly improve the situation - but would result
> from our own voluntary efforts.
>
> Identifying translation issues for the official process is something we
> could follow up on.
>
> and veni - the message valeria posted is the spanish translation of the
> (english) message i posted re "Proposal for Coordination"
>
> karen
>
>
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