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Contributor [1]
Thursday, December 9, 2004 - 02:00
Categories: 
Internet & technology [2]
Issue Number: 
186 [3]
Article-Summary: 

As the Father of Tanzania, the late Mwalimu Nyerere will always be remembered by his famous saying: "It can be done; play your part". December 4 saw the launch of The Open Swahili Localization Project, also known as Kilinux, the first ever release of a free office suite software in Swahili, called "Jambo OpenOffice." Jambo OpenOffice is the Swahili version of OpenOffice.org, a leading international effort to provide a free and open source office suite.

Category: 
ICT, Media & Security [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/internet/26010 [5]

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