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Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO General Information English Name Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO Address Ministry of Foreign Affairs
32/ 34 Smolenskaya-Sennaya Sq.
RU - 121200 Moscow, G-200
Russian FederationPhone (7.499 ) 244 24 56 ;
(7.499) 244 24 65;
(7.499) 244 25 36;
(7.499) 244 23 29Fax (7.499) 244 24 75 E-mail unescorussia@mail.ru Web site http://www.unesco.ru Internet Access [X] Correspondence Language ENGLISH Office Holders President Mr Sergei Lavrov* 
Mr Sergei Lavrov, President of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCOVice-Chairperson Mr Vladimir E. Fortov Second Vice-Chairperson Mr Alexander Dzasokhov Secretary-General Mr Grigory Ordzhonikidze Deputy Secretary-General Mr Amir Bilyalitdinov Activities of the National Commission Second International Conference on Linguistic and cultural Diversity in Cyberspace Domain Multilingualism Location Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Country Russian Federation Region Global Scope Inter-régional From (Y-m-d) 12/07/2011 To (Y-m-d) 14/07/2011 Activity type Conferences Description To the conference attended over 100 representatives from 31 countries from all continents: Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Dominican Republic, Egypt, India, Cape Verde, China, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, USA, Thailand, Ukraine, France, Central African Republic, South Africa, Japan. Guests of the conference were also members of UNESCO and the International Telecommunication Union.
Managers and staff members of intergovernmental and international non-governmental organizations, government bodies, institutions of culture, education, science, information and communication, business, civil society, media, politicians and public figures, leading experts will consider political, cultural, social, ethical and technological aspects of activities to support and preserve languages and cultures.
Particular attention was devoted to discussing the specific tools for ensuring the preservation of multilingualism, particularly in cyberspace.
This Conference is considered as a preparatory event of the World Summit for linguistic diversity.
In the final plenary session a political and practical guide Net.Lang, Towards the Multilingual Cyberspace prepared with the assistance of UNESCO, the Latin Union, ANLoc and IDRC was presented.
This event provided a platform for innovative experience exchange in international policy, exchange of standards and tools for preservation and development of linguistic and cultural diversity.
Organizers The Russian Committee of the UNESCO Information for All Programme, the North-Eastern Federal University, the World Network for Linguistic Diversity MAAYA, the Latin Union, the Inter-regional Library Co-operation Centre. Financing North-Eastern Federal University (Yakutsk), Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, UNESCO, Interregional Library Cooperation Centre Keywords Communication, Cultural Diversity, Languages, New technologies of information and communication Publications UNESCO Courier Language Russian Type Bulletin Media Print Periodicity Every month Financing The Publishing house Distribution CIS - Community of Independent States
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