[WSIS CS-Plenary] CS privacy statement not fully translated during plenary

[avri doria]

Hi,

information: I spoke to Marcus Kummer during lunch and he indicated 
that the statements would be posted on the WGIG web site if they were 
sent to wgig at unog.ch .  I think he will be mentioning this at the end 
of today's plenary session.  but even if he doesn't, I recommend 
sending the  CS statements to that address.

And an opinion.  I think that what was very important was the fact that 
the Arab gov'ts heard the entire statement in their own language.  This 
dwarfs, in my opinion, any stumbling that may have happened during the 
translation. I think we witnessed an important event.


cheers
a.



On 24 feb 2005, at 13.42, Andy Carvin wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I don't know if anyone else was listening to the English translation 
> of the
> CS statement on privacy about an hour ago, but the translator really
> screwed it up. When the statement got to the point where there is a 
> list of
> examples, the translator got confused and froze up; he didn't regain 
> his
> composure until the examples had all been said in Arabic, so he picked 
> it
> up again at "Privacy protects human dignity and individual autonomy." 
> So
> for someone listening in English, you could not hear any of the 
> examples
> explained. Was anyone listening in French or one of the other official
> languages? I certainly hope they did a better job translating the
> statement.
>
> ac
>
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