A summary of the project (CENSUS, UNICODE, IDN):

Part I - Census of languages and scripts in Africa regardless which one we will select or not - Assess the global need of Africa Community - Study on the current situation of languages and
scripts in Africa - Written languages, oral languages, etc..

Part II - Codification with Unicode - Tables variants Decide about the phasing approach of the global project. Through a pilot project , select some languages to go through the registration process of UNICODE. Make the approach systematic, so other countries will use it as the formal process.

Part III - Experimentation with IDN - Implementation at the second level with ccTLDs (one or two)
This is a parallel process for selected languages if they are already in the UNICODE table.

Project Name « African Language Presence in the Internet»
Requirement for the African content presence in the Information Society
Code : AF-CON-001.

Team lead Mouhamet Diop – Pierre Dandjinou & Pierre Ouedraogo
(NEXT SA , UNDP & INTIF) - Steering Committee (Implementation Phase)

Localization All the african countries – 54 states concerned
• Description : Census of African languages and scripts to allow registration into UNICODE and therefore IDN implementation and keyboard layout
• UNICODE Integration in IDN for african languages
• IDN experimentation (under one or two African ccTLDs and be ready for soon a TLD)

 

Secretariat Under NEXT SA bureaux 79 Rue Joseph Gomis 2e Etage – Dakar
PO BOX 7474 DAKAR

Project Dimension: Regional – Africa - NEPAD

Pre-study UNICODE in Africa
Script Language census – Variant Identification
Implementation strategy of IDN as pilot project

Pre-study term Six months – January – June 2005