History
How can ICT develop Tanzania by adopting it in English in secondary education when only less than 12 per cent of the relevant age group enter into secondary schools?
A participant in the workshop The future of ICT in Secondary Schools - Strategizing for Implementation in January 2005The Kilinux project began in 2003 with the development of a glossary and a spell checker for OpenOffice.org. In October 2004 Kilinux released a Swahili IT Glossary under the Creative Commons ShareAlike license containing over 1500 "computer related terms in English and their Swahili equivalents", because the Swahili language did not contain any computer terminology. After that the team was able to localize the 18,000 strings of OpenOffice.org and the first version of Jambo OpenOffice was unofficially released on the 4 December 2004 for Linux only.
The later officially released version was available for both Linux and Windows on 28 February 2005 after a Spanish company donated the cost for a Microsoft Visual Studio for doing essential optimizing of the source code.
The Kilinux Project received an award in May 2006 as the best ICT project in the category education of the 2006 Stockholm challenge.
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