Measuring linguistic diversity on the Internet

This publication was produced by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) in preparation for the World Summit on the Information Society (16-18 November 2005) in Tunisia. UNESCO is calling for new ways to monitor information societies which go beyond a techno-centric view to consider the social impact of the Internet. It presents key findings of research initiatives. While debating the predominance of English, the authors all stress that computers were originally designed with English in mind and therefore have inherent technological biases.