Multilingualism refers to an environment or a person that uses more than one language. The linguistic variety of Europe is seen as an important cultural asset but it may hamper the market (e.g. of language-dependent product and services). Multilingualism in ICT is a particular challenge for machine-translation and (multilingual) content management.
Multilingual is addressed in the ICT work programme 2011/12 (p. 55, 57) under the following challenges/objectives:
> Challenge 4: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Objective ICT-2011.4.1 SME initiative on Digital Content and Languages
Objective ICT-2011.4.2 Language Technologies
