There was a note on the UEA list about MuLiMob today. I submitted a bit to BoingBoing about it.

Multilingualism and Mobility (MuLiMob) is a new program, funded by the European Commission as part of the IST program, to promote awareness by the wireless community of Europe's linguistic and cultural diversity. There's a lot of market speak, but it's about decreasing the friction for new ideas across multiple language communities. It's particularly cool because they're using Esperanto as a bridging language to quickly get the docs translated into many languages. This article provides more background information including a paper by Vibeke Wara that describes "linguistic tribes and mobile phones". Good stuff.

I've seen several articles which have talked about the emergence of Europe as a 21st century superpower. At Salon, this article talks about two new books that illustrate how Europe, by not engaging in wasteful military spending or trying to impose an ideological agenda across the world, is being more successful at accomplishing their agenda among the developing world than the US. It would be neat if Europe figure out that with Esperanto, they could mediate the negative effects of their linguistic diversity, while preserving the cultural richness. It probably still isn't too late, although I think the window is closing.


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