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{{Country color status | green = green <!-- | local_text = replaceWithLocalLanguageText -->}} <br clear="all"> {{/Country info}} ==Pilot== [[OLPC Nigeria/Galadima]] [http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=126534 Sokoto] Sokoto Implements "One Laptop Per Child" Programme<br /> From Mohammed Aminu in Sokoto, 10.28.2008 Sokoto State Ministry of Education is set to partner with the state's Ministry of Information and Communication Technology to implement the 'One Laptop per Nigerian Child' (OLPC) programme, to improve education delivery in the state. '''Three New State Pilots in Nigeria:''' In 2010 three SEED OLPC pilot projects were started simultaneously at three Nigerian schools in '''Rivers State, Bayelsa State and Akwa Ibom State'''. For more information visit: [http://www.planetseed.com/one2one] == Next in line for deployment == Suggestions: The town of Pampaida, one of the [[Millennium Villages]].--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 02:07, 29 May 2012 (UTC) ==Languages needed for localization== Nigeria's official language is [[English]]. Other languages spoken include [[Edo]], [[Efik]], [[Adamawa Fulfulde]], [[Hausa]], [[Idoma]], [[Igbo]], [[Central Kanuri]] and [[Yoruba]], but there are more than 250 languages spoken in the country, [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=NG Ethnologue] even lists 510 spoken languages. Most children learn English, compulsory from primary school onward, and [[Arabic]]. They would probably have a better learning experience when taught most topics in their native language. Secondary school is almost exclusively taught in English. Yoruba is the local language most used in schools in the south west from primary to Secondary school , but the language of instruction still remains English. English is important to many Nigerians, seeing as at least a minimal knowledge of the language is necessary. There are already localization efforts in Nigeria's major languages, '''[[Yoruba]]''', '''[[Igbo]]''' and '''[[Hausa]]'''. These languages use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_reference_alphabet African Reference Alphabet], which is covered by [[Unicode]] but requiring support for composed characters with diacritics (at both input and display level). More information about localization can be found at the [http://www.bisharat.net/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Nigeria PanAfrLoc Wiki]. According to [http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/afrique/nigeria.htm ''L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde''], a third of the children between 12 and 17 attend school. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Nigerian_Alphabet Pan-Nigerian_Alphabet] This is what the Pan-Nigerian font looks like:<br> [[Image:Pannigerian.png]] It's a variant of the Latin alphabet with diacritic characters and a few extended characters as well. For more info you can refer to Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Nigerian_Alphabet Pan-Nigerian_Alphabet] page. == See also == *[http://www.news.com/Engineering-change-Plugging-Africas-kids-in-to-100-laptop/2009-1041_3-6173640.html?tag=st.prev Plugging Africa's kids in to $100 laptop] *http://www.africanews.com/site/list_messages/10644 ''15 August 2007'' Fantsuam Foundation is pioneering the localization five minority languages: Tyap, Gorok, Jju, Koro and Fantsuam www.zittsourceforge.org, http://zitt.sf.net/zpage.html [[Category:Countries|Nigeria]]

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