About
Organizations
More information about the organizations behind the Nitobe center:
Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF)
Vision & Mission: Is a world possible in which many languages, large and small, coexist in relative equality, and communication on a global scale is accessible to rich and poor alike? ESF is dedicated to exploring this question in theory and practice, taking its inspiration from the modest but real success of Esperanto as a language of international and intercultural communication.
Background: Founded in 1968, ESF is recognized as a tax-exempt private foundation, incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia, USA. The Foundation is administered by a voluntary Board of Directors with input from a larger Advisory Board, enabling it to draw on a wide range of perspectives and expertise.
The scholars who founded ESF were moved to do so by their experience with Esperanto, the only planned international language to have become the vernacular and literary medium of a widespread speech community. In keeping with the philosophy behind Esperanto, ESF is particularly interested in work that seeks to understand and promote diversity, integration, equity and efficiency in the world language system.
ESF seeks contacts and collaboration not only with applied linguists, but also with engineers, social scientists, humanists, politicians, and citizens. Its current activities include innovative educational projects (both virtual and face-to-face); research support activities, including the development of an extensive electronic corpus of Esperanto texts; and a variety of research projects, initiated both by ESF itself and by external grant applicants.
Homepage: www.esperantic.org
Center for Research and Documentation of the World Language Problem (CED)
CED was created in 1952, in the framework of the Universal Esperanto Association, to advance the scientific research about Esperanto "and its multiple applications in every sphere of life"; oversee the collection and creation of reliable documents about Esperanto; and support the information work of international organizations, specialty and scientific circles, and the general public.
Homepage: www.esperantic.org/ced
Esperanto@Interreto (E@I)
E@I completes projects which help Esperanto speakers use the Internet to collaborate world-wide, inform others about Esperanto, and teach it. The three main activities of E@I are 1) creating websites, 2) organizing seminars, and 3) informing about how Esperanto and the Internet together are usable for world-wide communication easily and quickly!
Homepage: www.ikso.net