Cases of Local Language Content Development and Dissemination across Developing Asia: Examples from PAN Laos L10n project By Valaxay DALALOY National Authority for Science and Technology Vientiane, Laos 15 th January 2009
Objective Provide information in Lao language Produce knowledge totally in Lao language Large number of population can access to digital information in Lao language Improve communication between Laotians by using , Chat
Applications UI are in both Lao and English language Website using open source for set up PHP and Doku-Wiki Discussion room
Website content Home Page: Environment Health Agriculture IT Tourist
Problem Vision vs. Reading
Benefits Lao Unicode Word processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation or Database are available with Unicode Conversion from Non-Unicode documents to Unicode PAN Localization network ◦ OCR ◦ Open Office
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