[UgaBYTES] Local Content in East Africa

[Cleopa Timon Otieno]

Dear Gerhard,

Could you please share in details the content categories you mentioned, It
may give many an insight on content because I think people confuse many
times the difference between content and data.

Regards
Cleopa.

2009/5/21 <gkwagner at via.at>

> Dear Pete,
>
> I have been doing research on various types of
> content- and publishing-markets for 15 years, including
> for UN, OECD and European Commission.
>
> 1) There are at least 15 categories of content. All of them are NOT
> interlinked. This makes research so tricky and time-consuming.
>
> 2) Check some terminology management initiatives in these countries.
> Their terminology databases enhance the translation from English
> to local languages and the other way round.
>
> 3) There is NO proper definition of contents and especially the
> informaticians misuse the term. Content is NOT data.
>
> 4) you have to decide first which of the 15-20 categories of
> content you are going to research. Then we could investigate whether
> for them an appropriate award is available (local, national, African,
> Worldwide). I know the EU- and worldwide awards, but not those in Africa.
>
> I met plenty of Korean content-missions to Vienna
> but never came across any content-initiative from Africa.
> Only in few Arabic countries content became a topic of initiatives.
>
> kind regards from Vienna/Belgrade,
>
>
> Gerhard
>
>
>
> Quoting Mwathi Francis <mfrancis at ugabytes.org>:
>
> > Hallo Pete,
> >
> > There is a group of University students that were involved recently in
> > translating Mozilla Firefox into Luganda- the most spoken Language in
> > Uganda. I understand that most of them are currently involved in a
> > similar project involving Google. If possible I would recommend that
> > you meet with them while in Uganda. They could be of great help.
> >
> > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Meddie Mayanja <mmayanja at idrc.ca>
> wrote:
> > > Thanks, Pete
> > >
> > > I am sure the telecentre community in East African region will seize
> this
> > opportunity to broaden their local content activities or even initiate
> new
> > ones. Great that you have shared this.
> > >
> > > Best, Meddie
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org
> > [mailto:ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org] On Behalf Of Pete Cranston
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 1:52 PM
> > > To: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
> > > Subject: [UgaBYTES] Local Content in East Africa
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > What are people and organisations in development in East Africa doing
> with
> > Local Content?
> > >
> > > I'm reviewing what has been happening in with Local Content since we
> last
> > worked in the area for the Open Knowledge Network, with IICD and with
> > telecentre.org. I am working with Peter Ballantyne and the reserch is
> for
> > www.ikmemergent.net. We'd like to hear from people and organisations who
> are
> > working in this field. We are interested connecting with the original
> > partners of those projects, but also with other people working on Local
> > Content.
> > >
> > > When we talk about Local Content we mean "the expression of the locally
> > owned and adapted knowledge of a community - where the community is
> defined
> > by its location, culture, language, or area of interest", the definition
> used
> > in Peter Ballantyne's 2002 paper. We know that content is expressed in
> all
> > forms - voice, song, text, art objects, pictures and videos and many
> more.
> > Increasingly this content is being captured online, and newer Web 2.0
> tools
> > are also having an impact.
> > >
> > > We are focusing on East Africa at this stage, partly because this is a
> > small piece of research and we want to look at issues in some detail and
> > partly because we know about some work that is happening in that region.
> > >
> > > Please get in touch if you'd like to talk about what is happening. I am
> > travelling to Kenya, and possibly Uganda, either in mid-June or mid July
> this
> > year, and would like to meet and talk to people who would like to be
> > connected to the research and develop ideas for how the subject could be
> > developed.
> > >
> > > Best wishes
> > >
> > > Pete
> > >
> > > Pete Cranston
> > > skype: petecranston
> > > mobile: +44 (0)7917 390133
> > >
> > >
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