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WHO multilingual website
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According to The world health report 2005,
almost 90 of all deaths among children under
five years of age are attributable to just six
conditions
Question (développée) Quelles sont les
principales causes de décès chez les nourrissons
et les jeunes enfants et que fait l'OMS pour
réduire la mortalité infantile?
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R Cada minuto, no menos de una mujer muere como
consecuencia de complicaciones relacionadas con
el embarazo y el parto es decir, unas 529 000
mujeres cada año. Además, por cada mujer que
muere al dar a luz, otras 20 sufren lesiones,
infecciones o enfermedades (unos 10 millones de
mujeres cada año).
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Context

• Two-thirds of the 750 million people online today
  are not Anglophones
• More than 100 million new Internet users every
  year
• WHO to provide information, council and
  assistance in the field of health.

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Context

• Why Multilingualism
• The political aspects
• The pragmatic aspects
• The ethical aspects

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?History WHO web site
1997
1998
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?History WHO web site
2000

• English site
• Ad hoc pdfs in other languages

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?History WHO web site
2002

• English, French and Spanish sites limited
  content

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January 2005?
Arabic
Chinese
English
French
Russian
Spanish
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Where we are now

• Maintaining 500 top pages in 6 languages
• Equity in languages does not assume English
  lead
• Tools, guidelines, training support for
  multilingual web publishing
• BUT - most content still in English

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Moving forward?

• E. g. Content in six languages
• Priority publications
• Core packages of public information based on
  health topics, outbreaks, crises
• Top level content and navigation
• Search interfaces
• Key media documents (press releases, fact sheets
  etc)
• Governing bodies documentation

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Moving forward?

• E. g. Content in any language
• Encourage non-English original content relevant
  to target audience
• Promote hiring of public information writers in
  other languages
• Identify priority languages per topic/activity
  e.g. Chinese/SARS

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Moving forward?

• The Translation issue
• Can we depend on human translation to feed our
  expanding sites
• What Machine Translation can offer

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Moving forward?

• The Quality control issue
• Develop editorial direction of six sites
• Feedback, evaluation, marketing of language sites

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