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PaaKwesiImbeah

Paa Kwesi Imbeah is a co-lead of the kasahorow Projects which aims to implement technologies accessible in local languages.

kasahorow's current focus is improving local language content accessibility on the WWW.

"kasahorow" is also the name of a set of software modules that help to manage African language content. Please see http://kasahorow.com/en/faqs for answers to frequently asked questions or email him directly at imbeah AT suuch . com.

He is from Takoradi, Ghana.

• Open Mic presentation by Paa Kwesi (mp3)

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)

Funders

• Ben Akoh, OSIWA
• Adel El Zaim, IDRC

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

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)

Practice and Feedback

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

Testing/using/providing feedback on the utility

Towards standards, practice-driven policy formation

• Adama Samassekou, ACALAN
• Dawit Bekele

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

Training

• Tariq Chakour
• Sonja Bosch
• Liesl Hibbert

Training new practitioners (old and new) according to the standards)

Evaluation

• Dawit Bekele
• Solomon Atnafu

Consultation, Advisory

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