From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 18:39:46 EDT
On 19/08/2003 14:42, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>>A session on internet & African languages that was part of the WSIS prepcom
>>in Bamako last year was critical of Unicode as it is. An individual on the
>>newsgroup fr.comp.normes.unicode denounced Unicode as an American scheme.
>>
>>
>
>The problem is, like much else, Unicode has gotten caught up in
>the much larger political, social, and economic currents regarding
>globalization. There are plenty of people who come into the discussion
>with preconceived notions (many of which are at least partially
>accurate) regarding the intent of American driven information
>technology, and more generally, global corporations, to control the
>world.
>
>
Might it help to point people to the list of members at
http://www.unicode.org/consortium/memblogo.html? By no means all US or
international corporations, especially among the associates.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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