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African localisation wins at Stockholm

by Khairil Yusof last modified 2006-05-26 09:51 AM
Contributors: Richard Frank

A little-known African localisation projected called KiLinux, which translated open source office suite OpenOffice.org into Swahili, scooped an award under the Education category.

The KiLinux team has also developed a Swahili IT Glossary containing hundreds of computer-related terms in English and their Swahili equivalents. The glossary has been released under a Creative Commons ShareAlike license.

In a statement announcing the winners, the Stockholm Challenge website noted that the KiLinux project "supports the learning process for many people living in Central & Eastern Africa. People who were previously forced to learn in a foreign language can now learn in their own language."

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