
Khaled Fattal
Chairman, MINC

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Benedictory Remark by Mr. Khaled Fattal,
Chairman of MINC
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I had a short speech prepared but I discovered after I¡¯ve
started witnessing the gathering here, and the level of the
gathering, that perhaps something else should be in order.
As a chairman of an international organization, where we have
actually pushed on the multilingualization of the Internet
for a quite a while, and where the success of that actually
was reached at the final phase of the WSIS in 2003 in December,
where the declaration of the principle included that multilingualization
of the Internet is vital for not only the bridging of the
divide, but bringing the disenfranchised of the world into
this phenomenon, which Secretary-General Kofi Anan called
it as ¡®an effort for the betterment of mankind.¡¯ From what
I¡¯ve seen in the last couple of days, in the efforts of Netpia,
I think today, Korea should be proud. So, I will applaud you
all. In simple English, the benefit of just doing this (typing)
to access the Internet, and the Korean example of how it starts
with children can be replicated all over the world with communities,
at communities where the native language is not English and
where they have actually been left out. So in that sense,
I am actually honored to have goodness and been part of this
conference and I look forward to seeing some great things
happening and with all of us working together, bridging the
digital divide and helping people and bringing them into this
multilingual Internet as fundamental right of their self-expression.
Now on this one, I thank you very much and I¡¯m going to try
this again, °¨»çÇÕ´Ï´Ù.
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