A small team of developers in Rwanda was just beginning work on a project to produce a localized version of OpenOffice, an open-source alternative to Microsoft's market-leading productivity software, when they realized they had a problem.

Ed: Quite a nice article that talks about the Kinyarwanda translation effort as well as the general preasure being placed on Microsoft to supply many more localised builds. Oh yes the problem they experience was a lack of words in the language - not the inability to localise their software for their needs

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