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Beyond Mul+lingual Europe: poten+als and gaps of EU aid in language technologies for the world Han-Teng Liao United Na0ons University Ins0tute on Compu0ng and Society ( UNU-CS ) UNU-CS is a research ins0tute at the intersec0ons of ICTs and

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Beyond Mul+lingual Europe: poten+als and gaps of EU aid in language technologies for the world

Han-Teng Liao United Na0ons University Ins0tute on Compu0ng and Society ( UNU-CS )

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UNU-CS is a research ins0tute at the intersec0ons of ICTs and interna0onal development

  • Source: Olivier Alais hDp://

ict4dev.org/visi0ng-the-united- na0ons-university-in-macao/

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Europe's Digital Single Market must be mul+lingual! (Georg Rehm)

Source: hDp://www.meta-net.eu/blog?set_language=de

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LT for EU’s int’l coopera+on and development?

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The ASEAN Economic Community: towards a Single Market

Source: hDp://learning.asean.org/news/asean-na0onal-news/asean-journalists-strive-to-promote-regional-iden0ty-45087.html

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China’s AIIB and the ‘One Belt, One Road’ (OBOR)

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Some observa+ons

‘The kind of infrastructure financed by the Chinese ini0a0ves is the “hardware” of trade and investment, necessary but not sufficient to deepen integra0on.’

  • David Dollar, Brookings

‘”One Belt, One Road”calls for talents of small languages (小语种).’

  • State Council Informa0on office, China
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Socie+es under digital and social transforma+on

  • ADB Vice-President

Stephen Groff. 2014. Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany. With over 600 million people, ASEAN‘s poten0al market is larger than the European Union or North America. Next to the People's Republic

  • f China and India, ASEAN

has the world's third largest labor force that remains rela0vely young.

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Linguis+c dimension of the Belt and Road Ini+a+ve

  • Current largest online language user

communi0es: English, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Vietnamese, Turkish, Egyp0an Arabic, Bengali, Indonesian, Polish, etc.

  • Turkish and Polish language user communi0es

currently have significant presence on the Internet landscape of the region, a fact that is likely to be contributed to the rela0vely higher Internet penetra0on rates in Turkey and Poland.

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META, EU, OBOR

Country G roup Countries M ETA (EU) N=28 Austria (AT), Belgium (BE), Cyprus (CY ), Czech Republic (CZ), Germany (DE), Denmark (DK), Estonia (EE), Spain (ES), Finland (FI), France (FR), UK (GB), Greece (GR), Croatia (HR), Hungary (HU), Ireland (IE), Italy (IT), Lithuania (LT), Luxembourg (LU), Latvia (LV), Malta (MT), Netherlands (NL), Poland (PL), Portugal (PT), Sweden (SE), Slovenia (SI), Slovakia (SK), Bulgaria (BG), Romania (RO) M ETA (non EU) N=6 Switzerland (CH), Israel (IL), Iceland (IS), Norway (NO), Serbia (RS), Turkey (TR) OBOR (EU only) N= 11 (out of 65) Bulgaria (BG), Czech Republic (CZ), Estonia (EE), Croatia (HR), Hungary (HU), Lithuania (LT), Latvia (LV), Poland (PL), Romania (RO), Slovenia (SI), Slovakia (SK)

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Premise

language technologies as a form of international aid that benefits both givers and receivers.

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EU DG DEVCO

  • Delivering EU aid to developing countries.
  • Many countries need not only guidelines on

informa0on and language policies (some of which are provided by UNESCO), but also language technologies and digital resources.

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META-NET

  • the leading regional community with the

novice idea that Europe's Digital Single Market must be mul0lingual

  • META-NET may advocate the no0on that

language technologies and services can be delivered as a form of interna0onal aid that benefits both givers and receivers.

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Research (Preliminary)

  • Data source: Ethnologue; DG DEVCO webpages
  • Theory: a geostrategic theory (geographic

pivot of history) modified by sok linguis0c determinism (c.f. geographical determinism) based on globaliza0on of culture and mobility.

  • Method: Greenberg's Diversity Index (LDI)

– Languages in a country – Languages in a country group

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Findings: Greenberg’s diversity index

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  • No. of

Countries LDI CPLP 9 0.33437 EU-Latin-America 18 0.55788 UNASUR 12 0.57088 EU-Caribbean 16 0.62655 CARICOM 20 0.74027 EU-Central-Asia 5 0.78243 EU-ENP-Russia 17 0.83174 EU-Gulf 3 0.84342 EUROMED 10 0.87183 OECD 33 0.88457 APAN 15 0.89962 EU-ENP 16 0.91033 EU-Asia 18 0.91327 UFM 22 0.91957 TEIN 23 0.92095

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  • No. of

Countries LDI LAS 22 0.92733 EU 28 0.92733 SAARC 8 0.93398 META 34 0.93786 ASEAN 10 0.93841 OBOR 65 0.94112 ASEM 50 0.94178 PALOP-TL 5 0.94359 EU-Pacific 10 0.98248 AU 54 0.98511 EU-Saharan-Africa 49 0.99021 ACP 80 0.99027 EU-ACP 79 0.99073

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EU language technology aid

  • Language technology (LT) not yet as a form of aid
  • Easier and ready in La0n America, South America,

and Caribbean

  • Slightly more difficult in EU Neighbourhood

region and Russia, and MEMA

  • META members cover some non EU countries.
  • ASEAN, OBOR, and ASEM have great poten0als

and difficul0es

  • AU, Saharan Africa, Africa Caribbean Pacific most

diverse and requires most efforts.

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Sugges+ons

  • the need for the establishment of similar

regional communi0es for and around LT in the rest of the world

  • the shared aim to evaluate and advance LT

support for the languages of the region

– par0cularly those regions with emerging single market agenda and Internet users (e.g. ASEAN).

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“feeling at home in a wider world (web)”

  • how do we make users feel at home
  • the goal to have a “wider and more

inclusive” world