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Archive for October 11th, 2004

Swahili IT glossary uses cc licenses

Monday, October 11th, 2004

What a wonderful project! I just heard from Alberto Escudero who is working on a Swahili IT glossary in Tanzania licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. The content is great, but the methodology is even better, engaging a wide range of Kiswahili experts, computer scientists and now, volunteers in developing tech terms for […]

Is Thandi Mathobane a real person?

Monday, October 11th, 2004

This was the subject of some very interesting messages that I received over the weekend in response to BoingBoing’s coverage of our animation. Sadly (or not, depending on which way you look at it), Thandi Mathobane and the ‘Soweto Times’ are not ‘real’. I wrote the script before Creative Commons had started in earnest in […]