Support for IYL 2008

• Thematic framework: Others
• Geographical outreach: International
• Types of project: Disseminating information
  
  
• Main responsible
  Don Osborn
  Washington, DC
  USA
  

Summary of the activities
This is an individual online project, involving informal collaboration with others, to support the International Year of Languages and its goals. Aims include:

- Promote development of a webspace that is complementary to the UNESCO webpages about the Year, and links other related sites. The understanding is that the range and number of language-related organizations and activities are such that only multiple "framings" can hope to represent and serve them;

- Collect and present links and very basic information on organizations and activities;

- Gather information on strategies and resources for support of the Year;

- Serve the development of linkages among organizations and of possible "civil society" type structures to promote the goals of the Year and other language-related efforts after the Year is over.

The webspace is currently based on a personal website, which hopefully can lead to a dedicated website and related online instruments (such as a forum).