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Press Release
London- Los Angeles- Dubai
June 20, 2008
In full support of the drive by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers http://icann.org also known as “ICANN” in its International Outreach for Public Participation, especially from the International Domain Names (IDNs) regions of the world, Live Multilingual Translator http://livemultilingualtranslator.com is pleased to announce that it will translate the ICANN website to Arabic, Live and online, for a period of 30 days to coincide with the ICANN Paris meeting and in full support of ICANN's drive and effort. Click here to see www.icann.org/arabic translated and created in Arabic courtesy of Live Multilingual Translator.
Khaled Fattal, Chairman and CEO of Live Multilingual Translator who also serves on the ICANN President Advisory Committee on Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) and who also holds the position of Chairman and CEO of the Multilingual Internet Names Consortium (MINC) said : " We wish to show our support for ICANN's drive and its efforts to truly internationalize itself and we want to empower more than 300 million Arabs where more than 80% do not know any English, as well as 1.2 billion Muslims around the world whose native languages are not Arabic but do learn Arabic to read the Quran and where more than 90% of them do not know any English either. We want to Empower them to become able to read in Arabic any English websites they were unable to reach or read before so that they can follow up and take part in the latest developments in areas that will affect their cultures, languages and most importantly their future on the Internet within ICANN and elsewhere. Our mission is to help them take active roles in what affects their lives now and in the future. We recognize that this is not a full solution to break down the language barriers of the net, but we have turned what was once impossible into a reality that is a huge milestone for mankind to bridge the digital divide”.
ICANN’s General Manager for Public Participation, Kieren McCarthy said: “A key part of ICANN’s Translation Programme is to develop ways of working with its global community to provide information in other languages. We’re always pleased to see proactive community efforts and will be looking at Live Multilingual Translator to see what may be learnt from it. People who want to provide ICANN with feedback on this or any other aspect of its translation work, can attend the special session on Thursday 26 June at 1pm in Paris.”
Fattal concluded:" Although we are a For-profit company, we chose to do this in the same spirit of our support of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and their Geneva IGF and Brazil IGF websites which we are translating to Arabic at Live Multilingual Translator."
About Live Multilingual Translator™: Amongst its many services, the key service of Live Multilingual Translator™ is its Machine Translation of English websites to Arabic, Live, online and in Real Time but with adherence to sentence structure, language rules and Grammar; the Syntax that brings meaning, life and identity to a rich and complex languages like the Arabic and English languages. Without this syntax any translation is only broken up words with no concept or meaning. This is of paramount importance to more than 350 million Arabs whose native language is Arabic, and 1.5 Billion Muslims who learn Arabic to read the Quran, the vast majority of whom do not know English, and who have been left out of the English Internet Phenomenon due to the English language barrier of the Internet and the delays in deploying Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). They are thirsty for information which does not exist in Arabic, their only language. And they cannot reach and read English websites to become better informed active citizens of the world and consumers of information to enlighten and empower themselves, until now. It is based on unrivalled technology backed by years of research and testing in a breakthrough combination of innovative technologies combined with unrivalled literary English and Arabic language skills and talents. For more information write to info@LiveMultilingualTranslator.com or visit http://www.livemultilingualtranslator.com