[ioepanel] suggestions

[Vint Cerf]

you can be sure that natural language processing is a point of great
attention at Google : -)

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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:01 AM, <Hultzsch at telekom.de> wrote:

>  *It's a long way to go but in the end we will have 99% correct automatic
> translation for both alphabetic and verbal text. I assume the Chief
> Internet Evangelist of Google is encouraging relevant innovation
> initiatives within his company and beyond, including Adobe. It may evolve
> into one of the strategic issues of the Internet Community, maybe even of
> ICANN.*
> *....Hagen*
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> *Von:* ioepanel-bounces at icann.org [mailto:ioepanel-bounces at icann.org] *Im
> Auftrag von *Vint Cerf
> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 14. Januar 2014 03:47
> *An:* InterNetX - Daniel Oppermann
> *Cc:* ioepanel at icann.org
> *Betreff:* Re: [ioepanel] suggestions
>
>  Daniel these are very good points. We probably won't be able to follow
> your recipe for the webinar on the 15th but the point about multi-lingual
> accommodation is very well taken and ought to be a point we tackle in the
> ecosystem document. I will ask the drafting team to find a place for that.
>
> I think there is a speculative chance that some automatic translations
> could help but as you know the quality is still probably too low to be
> useful in a substantive conversation - taking us back to multi-lingual
> translations by humans. ICANN also makes use of transcription (real-time
> captions) although at this point only in English. I think Beth Noveck's
> panel on participation has an opportunity to engage on this point as well.
>
> v
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> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:53 PM, InterNetX - Daniel Oppermann <
> daniel.oppermann at internetx.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> First I want to thank you guys for making todays webinar possible. It is
>> certainly a good place to exchange ideas on the future of Internet
>> governance. And I would like to make two suggestions:
>>
>> 1) Although it is important to get a free-flow input from participants
>> and stakeholders I would suggest a little more structure during the
>> webinars. Maybe by defining certain topics a week before the webinar so
>> that people are aware what the discussion is going to focus on. Today we
>> had 80 people in the webinar, 2-3 using the microphone option and 5-10
>> using the chat although a lot of stuff on the chat was not content-related.
>> If we try to focus on topics we can get a better output I think.
>>
>>   2) Concerning globalization of ICANN: language is an important issue.
>> There are many people out there that want to participate but do not speak
>> English sufficiently or at all. When we look at several ICANN webinars we
>> figure out that they are mostly dominated by English-speaking people, a lot
>> of them (maybe the majority?) native-speakers. Others maybe understand
>> English but are not able to express themselves in the same way they could
>> in their own language. ICANN is on a good way to reach out to other regions
>> of the world and now we need to include not only the names of countries and
>> cities where ICANN has new offices but also the languages people speak on
>> the Internet. We need webinars not only in English but also in Spanish,
>> Chinese, Arab, French, Portuguese, Indonesian, Russian, Korean etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Daniel
>>
>>
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