[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/04/2004 04:05:23 PM:
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> How does localised software help in this case? The majority of work being
> done by these chaps was helping the locals use the computers. If they had
> Luganda equivalents of all the software installed, even a P7 drop out on
> that village could very easily have taken on the challenge of managing
> those systems. When one has to learn a language in order to use
> technology, the digital divide becomes even wider.
Wire localised software will help no doubt, but with the case of the world wide web,
how much? considering that the biggest percentage of the content on the web is written
in English.Unless we look towards localising tools such as babelfish, translating
mozilla into a local language may not be such a helpful thing.
CN
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> Otherwise its good to always share such thoughts.
>
> Wire
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> >
> > (this does not in any way mean i dont like Wire's efforts on Mozilla..)
> > ;-) its just that even at school, i remember baganda students used to get
> > more marks in English than Luganda.
> >
> > ernest.
> >
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