By: David Kernohan

David Kernohan — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:24:48 +0000

Cheers – Mr Gluesniffer… indeed – the insistence on “conference english” means that we get a westernised Anglo-american mindset reinforced. I’d never considered live translation at a conference before but it would make such a great difference.Thanks for the recommendations too!

By: Mr Glusniffer

Mr Glusniffer — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:09:13 +0000

Fantastic list – everyone I know here would be great, and I look forward to checking out the others.Catherine Ngugi was the opener at OpenEd 2009 and she blew the doors off the place: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1971271 – scan 10 mins in for herI’ve had the chance to see some great speakers from the Spanish-speaking world, and while language may be a challenge, I think it would be worth the effort to tap the expertise of people and perspective of people like Alejandro Piscitelli, someone from the Zemos98 collective, Ismael Lopez-Pena, Olivier Schulbaum or Susana Noguero from Platoniq, Mara Balestrini, Gonzalo Frasca, and many others…Some of these people might not best be served by the classic “keynote’ format, but surely we can rethink that as well.Something that has come clear to me trying to navigate some events using my bad Spanish… these people all have serviceable English (some them have great English), and when they attend international events they can get by… but in ways that limit the range and nuance of their expression. One person told me the language that is spoken by most nations at “international” events is a form of “globe-ish”, not English. In the future, if I host non-English speakers I’d like to do more to allow them to do their thing in their own language, using aids like translation/headsets and translated visuals.

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