-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi Wire,
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > problem is, that kind of people may not even know how to read luganda > > or whichever is their language. they might even never live to touch a > > PC. not that they cant afford it, they just dont need it probably. > > > Brother, lets take Uganda as a case study, Bukedde News Paper according > to the Audit Bureau of Circulations has as a daily buy of 14,700 news > papers. Now if you factor in the 1 newspaper being read by 5 people, > that takes its readership up to about 73,000 people. Among these are the > Kikuubo business men who can afford cars of USD 100.000 casually how > about spending USD 400 on a computer to improve on his business > operations? To make matters even better, arm him with software in the > lingua he is literate at. Lets realise guys that it is time we took > technology to the masses if we are to ever make sense of our professions > 15 years down the road. > > Are u with me? am with you so far,.. anyway, its just the humble beginning. am sure lots can be achieved in targeting the entities you mention above to take PCs to good use if Luganda was made a national official language. Not only that, if we could have M$ Windoze in Luganda, MS Office in Luganda, etc... plus some magic translator to display web-content from whatever the source language is (probably english) to Luganda. Otherwise, the kikuubo chaps will still have to use the menus in luganda to read english content and create english documents. ernest. > > Wire > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iQDVAwUBQVfDwqH3gYhvcd1eAQJw6wX+JEyL8X+Y5v9vCgBGvOgP9Qileieyz9av > > hJy277B7T839oEpoe5k2pmcNmSCfXeEStFJBVWe2EPhXJsZp8CvERQFQ/2Wp5DLi > > /7EL7UF1ayFyc8QDl8ehEVD4HKFzaWq3SB/Q3a6WvVCtM/n4FAwHjhf/z/bQ82QS > > yGlFx8Oz4Yv1UqYfJj0hUk0pYBfj/adOY+ZQv6Y0dTIzwhC75DamWUZISQFlV5/B > > jiGuKMoKVZ3ETsF9k+ZIb0Of9DtmU3NV > > =ii9h > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQDVAwUBQWK9ZqH3gYhvcd1eAQIC1AX+KBdf7Sr68lHidE6E6ifxV9VdQhIUBUtu WE0RnpAEci/DaHa4plYXEd8xyizpX/juoLhkWJyE/jfdW8NbG82uYtmTuqCEfazT rCVOvtMRW1Vz02O8b/IE1fn5ic2a9ICf+hlTFCyT/wL7yJjxA/krYhg19wYQVHDH isNELkDMgXe5acdfX1oUGp7XO7z0HiZVtjA548n2UliFTQIKidv/qnAapUUn3fB+ aPwhzA02DL+ffn2ZZiBGj/wUCZg0Ca5N =sGRp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
