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Tectonic: African Localisation Wins at Stockholm

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 25, 2006

“Let’s face it: it’s never nice coming second (or for that
matter third or fourth). But South African non-profit
Translate.org.za does have something to cheer about after they
returned empty-handed from the Stockholm Challenge Award ceremony
earlier this month.

“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…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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