June 1, 2007

Firefox "goois the Taal"

Mozilla Firefox web browser has just been released in Afrikaans by the
award winning Translate.org.za, winners of the African ICT Achiever
Award 2006 for bridging the digital divide.

This work has a far reaching impact on multilingualism, education and business in South Africa. Dwayne Bailey is available for interviews and is happy to discuss the broad impactof this release and translation of computer software.

Translate.org.za has been creating web browsers in all 11 official languages
since 2001. With this release it makes it easier for anyone to surf the
Internet in Afrikaans.

They have translations in all the other official languages but these
need to be updated and tested before they become official releases. They
are hoping that organisations and people passionate about their language
will help make that a reality.

Here is the download page.

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