Going Multilingual

Dwayne BaileyManaging Director

Life or Death

92%

"Ken Banks, kiwanja.net

Local Language Software

LibreOffice – 90+ languages Community translation using crowdsource

platform... ….built by Translate

Estimated user base? 100s of millions Moving to mobile devices Allows local content creation by locals in

local languages

Firefox in Africa 15 African languages

NGOs, Companies, Academics African conditions are frustrating Translate mentors and assists with technical

heavy lifting

Large African market share No permission required to translate

Creating Terminology

Terminology is critical Building terminology has happened in a silo

UKZN and Translate partnering Allowing community development of

terminology across the whole campus

Questions?

Dwayne BaileyManaging Director