FYI, from AppAfrica http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/241 :
Ugandan Students Translating Firefox into Local Languages August 14th, 2008
I?ve written quite a few posts on Appfrica in the past on
computational linguistics and the potential for using the local
languages of African users. Because literacy and multi-lingualism tend
to be huge problems in African regions where education standards are
poor, using local languages would potentially be a way to increase
computer use among local users. At Makerere University in Kampala,
Uganda, students have undertaken an impressive project, translating
Mozilla Firefox 3 into the local Ugandan language of Luganda.
It?s part of a wider translation initiative between Makerere
University and Rhodes University as a project of [EMAIL PROTECTED], an
effort to make local language versions of various mobile, web and
desktop applications.
Anyone interested in the Language Pack can download it here. Of course
you?ll need Firefox 3 installed to use
About the Author: Jonathan Gosier (Founder) is an American-born
software developer, writer and social entrepreneur. He currently lives
in Kampala, Uganda where he is working on two fronts: to encourage
western businesses and investors to engage African entrepreneurs and
to encourage the adoption of computers, programming and use of the
internet in the developing regions of Africa. He is a huge advocate
for promoting the ways in which a semantic web will benefit emerging
economies in the world.
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