Session: Use of Latin and Native Languages on the Internet

Concise Description:
This worshop has been organized in the IGF of Sharm el Sheik and in the IGF of Vilnius and we plan to organize it for the third time in Kenya.
Although some latin languages like Spanish and Portuguese are spoken by hundreds of million people, there is not a direct relationship with these figures and the presence of these languages on the Internet.
Even more challenging is the situation of native languages in the Internet, which are also challenged even in their national environment.
Although there seem to be many barriers, there are also several projects and examples that show that from different perspectives, goverment, private sector, NGOs and academy, these difficulties can be solved and languages can find their way in the Internet.
The workshop will review again the challenges that these languages face in the Internet, both from the content perspective and also from the IDNs and other diversity innitiatives, and will review also successful stories of lowering existing barriers for these languages.
A prospective revision through the outcomes of the other two workshops will be done as well.