1. WSIS Action Plan: 1 Bamako, Mali, 6-7 May 2005 Multilingualism for Cultural Diversity and Participation for All in Cyberspace Technology solutions for multilingualism Theme 2

2. WSIS Action Plan: 2 CONTEXT FROM POLICIES TO ACTION FROM STAKEHOLDERS TO ACTORS FROM CONTENT TO TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS OF COURSE, KEEPING IN MIND MULTILINGUALISM FOR WHAT: SOCIO- CULTURAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT From “personal observatory”

3. WSIS Action Plan: 3 PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP  CONFLICTING MOTIVATIONS AND INTERESTS – BUT, NEW TRENDS IN THE UN AND NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS – ACADEMIA AND COMPANIES: STARTUPS  SHARING GOALS AND RESOURCES – FINANCIAL – HUMAN  INVESTING IN ALLIANCES WITH NGOS  THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN BRIDGING PARTENRSHIPS

4. WSIS Action Plan: 4 promising hard and software tools  100$ COMPUTER  GRID, SEMANTIC WEB, WORDNET, WIKIPEDIA  TRENDS IN MT SEMANTIC COMPUTING  ORAL DISCOURSE UNDERSTANDING

5. WSIS Action Plan: 5 R&D programmes most needed  ENGINEERING: INFRASTRUCTURE AND INTEROPERABILITY PROBLEMS – WEB ARCHITECTURE – UNICODE – DNS IDENTITY  LINGUISTICS: LOCAL LANGUAGE RESOURCES – TERMINOLOGIES, DICTIONARIES – ADJUSTMENTS OF LL TO CYBERSPACE REQUIREMENTS

6. WSIS Action Plan: 6 R&D programmes most needed  NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING – NLP OF LOCAL LANGUAGES – ENCO-DECO SYSTMENS  KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING – UNIVERSAL ENCYCLOPEDIA – DIGITAL LIBRARY  CONTENT DEVELOPEMNTS – SELECTED LOCAL DOMAINS