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. ... 

Director of Translate.org.za, Dwayne Bailey, says KiLinux's award signals a growing appreciation of the role localisation has to play in Africa. "It is very exciting for us to see localisation and open source software win such a prestigious award," says Bailey.

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Translate.org.za would like to congratulate all of those involved:

• IT46 - who built Jambo OpenOffice.org 1.1.3, various tools used in the localisation and manged the upstreaming of completed work.
• The translators  from UDSM Computer Science Department
• The linguists
• And of course the users