Workshops & meetings on localisation

There have been a number of workshops and meetings relating to localisation in Africa. IDRC has been a major funder of these, in the framework of its programs and projects to support localisation of ICTs.

Localisation workshops

Workshops organised by the PanAfrican Localisation project

• PanAfrican Localisation workshop, Casablanca, Morocco, 2005/6/13-15
• PanAfrican Localisation workshop II, Tshwane (Centurion), South Africa, 2007/11/5-7

Other workshops funded by IDRC

• Pan African Research on L10N Workshop & Localization Blitz, 2007/2/24-27. This was organised by the Tactical Technology Collective

Other meetings on localisation in Africa

• Africa track at LISA/Cairo 2005, the conference of the Localisation Industry Standards Association held in Cairo, Egypt on 2005/12/5-8.

Other meetings in which localisation was a topic

• Africa Source I & II, held respectively on 2004/3/15-19 in Namibia & 2006/1/8-15 in Uganda
• Multilinguisme pour la diversité culturelle et la participation de tous dans le cyberespace, Bamako, Mali, 2005/5/6-7

Other events relating to localisation in Africa

• Unicode and Language Support in Francophone Africa, panel at the 27th Unicode and Internationalization Conference (IUC27), Berlin, Germany 2005/4/6