Opening the Internet: Looking Beyond English Dominance

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The talk shows concrete gaps and fixes: web language share is roughly 26.3% English 20.8% Chinese 7.7% Spanish, Internationalized Domain Names are proposed in 1996 but only widely implemented after 2010 with Gmail adding support in 2014, and only 39 countries approved so far. Examples include a social connect mangles names bug, Bulgarian Latin-number workarounds, Malagasy preserved by Global Voices, Project Enya requests, and Duolingo adding an indigenous language.

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2. 8:27Global Voices
3. 10:09Internationalized Domain Names
4. 11:24Chinese Website

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