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Please create your personal data base of people and organisations who might play a role in the building of the Pan African Localisation Program

Follow this structure: name organisation email how do they fit in (re clusters)

1.  By function

1.1  Funders

• Ben Akoh, OSIWA
• Adel El Zaim, IDRC

Provide the financial resources to support the network till it becomes self-sustaining

1.2  Fundamental tools and resources

• Denis Moyogo Jacquerye, Eveil du Congo moyogo@gmail.com

Input methods (keyboards) and text representation (fonts) for localization into different languages.

• Abdel-Karim Mardini of OpenCraft(Right-to-left language support)
• Paa Kwesi Imbeah kasahorow of Suuch Solutions (Left-to-right language support)

Technology support for managing lexical resources (wordlists/dictionaries/glossaries, corpora/translation and other language-specific technology development and research)

• Lahbib Zenkouar
• Martin Benjamin
• Marcel Diki-Kidiri

Data management/accumulation of accessible lexical resources (online preferably).

• Dwayne Bailey, Translate.org.za

Building/integration of tools for managing the localization process (lexical resources+localization tools+tool localization)

1.3  Practice and Feedback

• Manal Amin, Arabize
• Leonilde (Lee) Van Munster, Web-lingo CC
• Lamine Sanogo
• Hadja Sanon
• Kim Wallmach
• Mouna Abakarim

Testing/using/providing feedback on the utility

1.4  Towards standards, practice-driven policy formation

• Adama Samassekou, ACALAN
• Dawit Bekele
• Lahbib Zenkouar

Using feedback from the prior teams, disseminate and promote the consensus views as standards.

1.5  Training

• Tariq Chakour
• Sonja Bosch
• Liesl Hibbert Training new practitioners (old and new) according to the standards)

1.6  Evaluation

• Dawit Bekele
• Solomon Atnafu

1.7  Consultation, Advisory

• Amar Gurung
• Reinhard Schäler
• Don Osborn
• Adel El Zaim
• Ben Akoh

2.  By region

2.1  North Africa

Contact: Manal Amin

2.2 West Africa

Contact: Paa Kwesi Imbeah

• Fundamental tools and resources

2.3  Central Africa

Contact: Marcel Diki-Kidiri

2.4  East Africa

Contact: Solomon Atnafu

2.5  South Africa

Contact: Dwayne Bailey