newsitems UNESCO Director G/al Bokova to EuroFora on Multilingual Internet:ICANN+Automatic Translation on-line
UNESCO Director G/al Bokova to EuroFora on Multilingual Internet:ICANN+Automatic Translation on-line
*Strasbourg/CoE/Angelo Marcopolo/- UNESCO strongly supports "EuroFora"s idea to develop Automatic Translations on line so that Multilingual Internet News and debates can become easily Accessible to all People in whole Europe and throughout the World, told us in substance the Head of the International organization for Culture, including Press Media, Irina Bokova.
Significantly, UNESCO's Director General spoke to "EuroFora"just after a more interesting than expected CoE Parliamentary Assembly debate on "the Right to participate into Cultural Life", which gathered numerous MEPs and speakers around UNESCO's Head as keynote speaker.
- "It's true that MultiLinguism is a very important issue in the Internet, and UNESCO has shown many times its interest to that" issue, the Head of the International Organization stressed in reply to "EuroFora"'s question.
=> - Therefore, "Yes, obviously", we (UNESCO)'d be also "favorable" to any eventual "Investments", by interested businesses, States, Universities or other Public actors, "in New Technologies abe to develop also Automatic Translations on line", for news and debates, UNESCO's head reiterated, agreeing with "EuroFora"s query.
+ In addition, "we (UNESCO) have also signed an agreement with ICANN, which is the (International, US based) organism which safeguards the Internet domains, and, through this activity, we (UNESCO) promore various main Languages in the Web", she observed.
- In real practice, it's a question of Freedom and Equal Access to Culture via the Internet, which is at stake here, and an effective promotion of the Right of Citizens to have Access to Culture needs also the promotion of Multilinguism at the Internet, Irina Bokova explained earlier.
>>> Indeed, a Resolution adopted today by the PanEuropean CoE's Parliamentary Assembly, (which includes both EU and Russia, as well as several other Coutries), stresses from the outset that "States ... have a duty to take account of the radical Changes in the way we Access culture, with the boom of Digital culture and the Internet, to facilitate the emergence of ..new forms of expression and to further develop New Ways of disseminating cultural content in order to make them Accessible to all", simply because, today, more than ever, "the Right of everyone to take part in cultural life presupposes equal and free Access for all to a variety of cultural Resources".
Theferore, it's also "major cultural Institutions" which must "place ...at the heart of their Programmes"... the use of information and communication Technologies (screens, Internet, virtual reality and augmented reality, etc.) for multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary Projects with navigable environments that are likely to encourage Active Participation by the Public", (as, f.ex., "EuroFora"s project to develop Multilingual Debates and News in the Internet on the main Decision-making process by European organizations), concludes CoE's Resolution, adopted, after long debates, on a Report drafted by French governing ChristianDemocrat/UMP party's MEP Muriel Marland-Militello, quasi-Unanimously supported by 79 votes in favour, 0 against, and 3 abstentions.
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(NDLR : "DraftNews, as already sent earlier to "EuroFora"'s Subscribers/Donors. A more accurate and complete, Final Version is due asap).
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Fillon invites EU to invent "New Horizons" behind Oil crisis
Soultz-under-Forests, June 13, 2008
A pioneer Franco-German research project on GeoThermy, near Strasbourg, served as "Symbol" of EU's will to become Independent on Energy by developing innovative Technologies, while imported Oil prices threaten to provoke a World-wide crisis.
It's essential to demonstrate Europe's will to "invent New Horizons", by creating Environment-friendly, Independent and Renewable Energy sources, while price rises continue for Oil, a polluting old ressource with insufficient stocks, stressed French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, anouncing that this will be a focus during the forthcoming French EU Presidency (July - December 2008).
Fillon symbolically injected a 1st KWh produced by GeoThermy into Strasbourg's Electricity grid, during a special gathering of German and French officials at Soultz-under-Forests ("Soultz-sous-Forêts"), using a geothermal innovation which is "the most advanced in the World" :
The innovation uses Strasbourg's underground water richness to capture Heat, by injecting liquid among Rocks 5 km deep, where temperature is 200 c. Thus, it can be activated at any moment and location, even without natural warm water springs : A big advantage compared to old biothermal tools.
Engineers, Scientists and the Industry will have 2 Years to invent practical ways for this innovation to become productive and cost-efficient in real Economy, said Fillon.
115 Millions of Euros invested, 15 Research Labos, 430 Scientific Publications including 34 Doctoral PhD, and a systematic cooperation between French and German Governments and Public Agencies on Research, succeeded to prove that the new method works.
Already able to serve Electricity to a village with 1.500 inhabitants, the pioneer project intends to reach a capacity to serve 20.000 inhabitants before 2015, as part of a larger Plan to make all Renewable Energy Resources (together with Wind, Solar, etc) able to cover more than 23% of all Electricity needs before 2020.
- In fact, "behind the challenge" faced with the current Oil crisis, there "is a New Horizon that we can shape all together", by "creating New Tools for the Future", Fillon launched towards EU Member States.
Meanwhile, we should intensify Energy Savings, simplify Transports, and help the Poorest cope with growing Oil prices, until EU joins a World-wide lead into inventing reliable and sufficient Renewable Energy Sources, he added.
Many, technologic and other Challenges exist, but they can be overcome : F. ex. the new GeoThermic method tested at Shoultz since 1987, had provoked an Earthquake at a nearby site, close to Bale, by injecting big volumes of pressurized Water in underground broken Rocks near a Seismic Faultline in 2003. But the move was rectified later-on, by diminishing the amount and pressure of the water injected in underground rocks, so that no Earthquake is provoked.
More than 1 Billion Euros are invested by France on Scientific and Technologic Research about Sustainable Development until 2012, aiming to take a 10 years advance, there where innovation can become source of Growth, Competitivity and Jobs, which, according to some evaluations could reach more than 220.000 before 2020, Fillon observed.
During the forthcoming French EU Presidency, together with our German friends, we shall do all necessary efforts for Europe's World-wide lead against Global Warming, thanks to Energy tools able to ensure its Independence, Growth, and Citizens' well-being, he concluded.
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The "Enhanced Geothermal System" (EGS) stems from pioneer research initiated by teams from France, Germany and Italy, joined also by Swiss, the U.K., and Sweden, even U.S. and Japan, since the 90ies.
In 1996, a European Economic Interest Group (GEIE) was founded, in order to exploit Electricity-produsing Heat from deep underground Rocks, including France's EDF and Germany's PfalzWerke.
In 2002, a Pilot scientific project started to be tested in Soultz-under-Forests, 50 kms north of Strasbourg.