The following link is to an article discussing how IT professional in Africa are working to decrease the digital divide of the country: Africans get tools to cross the digital divide . Dwayne Bailey, a pioneer in software translation, and his team are working on rewriting open source software (software in which the original source code is available for users to modify and redistribute without fear of copyright infringement) in 11 of the major languages of South Africa. According to the article, one of the major problems with rewriting or developing software in many of Africa’s dialects is the lack of a technical vocabulary. To overcome this, the developer are either making up new words or finding comparable words/phrases such as calling the recycle bin, “the dark hole in the ground”. A very good article.
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