The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will collaborate on global efforts to forge universal standards towards building a multilingual cyberspace.

These three organizations have organised workshop on this subject during the second Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Brazil from 12 to 15 November, 2007. On the topic of multilingualism, the workshop concluded that ICANN is moving toward full implementation of Internationalized Domain Names. Following the evaluation of Internationalized Domain Names by ICANN, Internet users around the globe can now access wiki pages with the domain name "example.test" in the 11 test languages, namely: Arabic, Persian, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil. The wikis will allow Internet users to establish their own sub pages with their own names in their own language. ITU is keen to promote the diversity of language scripts for domain names.

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