High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation

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High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation: An independent panel of 20 experts convened by the UN Secretary-General to advance a dialogue on strengthening international cooperation in the digital age.

This EticaAI/forum issue is our place in the English language to have references about some of what we done in other places (like Facebook, GitHub issues, translations, etc) related to High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation that was established by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on 12 July 2018.

Quick links:

• Official links:
  • Main Website: https://digitalcooperation.org
  • UN general description of the Digital Cooperation: https://www.un.org/en/digital-cooperation-panel/
  • Twitter account: https://twitter.com/UNSGdigicoop
• Official links to relevant documents:
  • Final Report:
    • https://digitalcooperation.org/report/
      • This page have links for:
        • The main document, English only, 47 pages, direct link at this moment https://digitalcooperation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/DigitalCooperation-report-for-web.pdf
        • "Presentation "Key Takeaways: Summary Presentation", 13 pages, only images (PDF is not accessible, we cant translate), https://digitalcooperation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/HLP-DC-Report-Summary.pdf
        • 6 "Executive Summary" for languages English, Arabic, French, Chinese, Spanish, Russian
• Video live meetings
  • 2019-06-10 14:45 UTC:
    • Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcB_aIq1OwA
    • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNWebTV/videos/371332507073107/
• Etica.AI links:
  • 2018-12-03, Facebook, About the existence of the group
    • https://www.facebook.com/groups/2074656096197831/permalink/2117044325292341/ ^(Portuguese)
  • 2019-06-10, Facebook, about the final report plus the live discussion online
    • https://www.facebook.com/groups/africabr/permalink/317367262516401/ ^(Portuguese)
• Etica.AI backup copy / translations of the relevant documents
  • (To be added here in future)

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Files:

HLP-DC-Report-Summary.pdf ^{(Original: https://digitalcooperation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/DigitalCooperation-report-for-web.pdf date 2019-06-11 08:53 UTC)}
DigitalCooperation-report-for-web.pdf ^{(Original https://digitalcooperation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/HLP-DC-Report-Summary.pdf, date 2019-06-11 08:53 UTC)}

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We will need to translate the documents, but the actual version is not very friendly to use Computer-assisted translation. This is my second e-mail (the first one was not really related to documents, but just as extra e-mail for question here https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6543328096609722369)

Next is just text version of the e-mail send this time (here a PDF version extracted IEEE Mail - More accessible versions of documents related to the final report of High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation.pdf)

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Email Title: More accessible versions of documents related to the final report of High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation

Email from: Emerson Rocha <rocha (at) ieee.org>
Email To: digitalcooperation (at) unops.org, contributions (at) digitalcooperation.org
Email date: Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 9:32 AM

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Hi. I'm Emerson Rocha from Etica.AI. This e-mail is about create extra accessible versions of the documents release by the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation to improve accessibility for persons with disabilities that understand English without assistance and also to make it easier for internationalization. There is a TL;DR of how to do this, extra quick links with explanations and I'm very open to help as volunteer who is doing these files.

TL;DR:
1) If the "Adobe InDesign CC 14.0 (Macintosh)" that generated the PDF "“The Age of Interdependence” Report of the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation" does not have simple way, just open the source file and copy and paste all titles and paragraphs to a text editor like Microsoft Word or Libre Office. Then, with this text editor to be added, export 2 files :

1.1) DOC/DOCX or ODT (choose just one): keep it simple, do not embed custom fonts and very, very important, paragraphs should be paragraphs (if copy and paste from a PDF file, all paragraphs would have line breaks, make the text file and generated outputs both not "responsive" and hard for CAT tools generate good translations, because it would translate each line as a different information);
1.2) PDF: export the DOC/DOCX or ODT as PDF. Since the page will have at least 2 PDFs, call this one as "Accessible PDF" or equivalent; note that does not need put this accessible PDF or the DOC(X)/ODT file with same Visual highlight as the print version, since most users would still want to download the version;

2) Replace the actual "Key Takeaways: Summary Presentation" PDF with a version that export text as text (not 100% image like now). This file is not as important as the full report, but is a good idea to do it.

The rest of this e-mail is extra information (mostly links) about why the TL;DR and quick references if want go deeper using just the first e-mail. But I'm aware that accessibility is not easy, but I very open to help who make it more friendly, since the people will not only look what the Digital Cooperation says, but how it do it, even if it means just make more accessible versions of the final documents.

1. Affected documents released by the Digital Cooperation:

1. The full report, "“The Age of Interdependence” Report of the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation" (https://digitalcooperation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/DigitalCooperation-report-for-web.pdf)
2. The presentation document, "Key Takeaways: Summary Presentation": https://digitalcooperation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/HLP-DC-Report-Summary.pdf)

2. Great example of how to release documents related to digital inclusion

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) by United Nations - Disability

1. Index page of the CRPD: https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities.html
2. Same document, but release in different formats (use as reference)
   1. Format for print: https://www.un.org/disabilities/documents/convention/convoptprot-e.pdf
   2. Accessible PDF:
      https://www.un.org/disabilities/documents/convention/convention_accessible_pdf.pdf
   3. Editable document, DOC: http://www.un.org/disabilities/documents/convention/crpd_english.doc
      1. As the year of 2019

         1. "ODT" file could be used to release the file instead of the "DOC"

            1. See OpenDocument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
            2. See OpenDocument technical specification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_technical_specification

         2. "DOC" & "DOCX" could still be used in special if do not use very specific features of Microsoft Word

   4. HTML version: https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities/convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities-2.html
      1. Quick notes on advantages of also have one extra version in HTML
         1. Very friendly for search engines
         2. Human users with average recent browsers (like Chrome/Opera/Firefox) could have automatic translation with very good and acceptable results for this type of text.

3. Terms used on this document

1. Accessibility
   1. Wikipedia for Accessibility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility
   2. W3C For WCAG 2.0: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
   3. ISO/IEC 40500:2012 (W3C): https://www.iso.org/standard/58625.html
   4. Adobe recommendations about PDF accessibility: https://www.adobe.com/accessibility/pdf/pdf-accessibility-overview.html
2. Internationalization and localization
   1. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization
3. Computer-assisted translation
   1. Wikipedia for Computer-assisted translation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_translation
      1. One example of CAT tooll is https://www.matecat.com/
         1. Note that it accept DOC and ODT formats, but is very poor with PDF files. Thats why in addition to accessibility and allow creation of ebooks, the generation of the a DOC/ODT file makes it easyer for

4. Why The author wrote this full e-mail with this amount of details

In addition to my long experience with accessibility promotion, I'm also (as volunteer) doing grassroots volunteerism related to artificial intelligence. I could tell a lot, but a quick but a short phrase would be something like "the impact of artificial intelligence will arrive earlier than access to basic sanitation or even electricity in the home of the person helping community". Most people that care about what I do on Etica.AI (and do it by heart) are the ones who does who does not speak English or already have good internet, so even in short term is easier to make them productive. And, as even people like Garry Kasparov (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhkTHkIZJEc&feature=youtu.be&t=18m45s) would agree, people with better process / better interfaces could archive better results. And people from PALOP can get inspired by António Guterres, and documents like the ones from Digital Cooperation make then aware that people like Guterres aware that he exist.

Again, if need help doing this, I'm here.

Att.
Rocha