1. 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

2. 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 Email, Chat

3. Applications UI are in both Lao and English language Website using open source for set up PHP and Doku-Wiki Discussion room

5. Website content Home Page:  Environment  Health  Agriculture  IT  Tourist

6. Problem Vision vs. Reading

7. 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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