The document discusses globalization and its consequences. It notes that globalization involves the integration of capital, technology, and information across national borders, creating a single global market. The document then discusses some challenges and opportunities related to globalization, including the dominance of English online. It provides statistics showing that over 50% of the most visited websites use English as their primary language. The rest of the document outlines the process of internationalization and localization, including design, development, testing, translation and localization testing. It discusses the current state of internationalization and localization for open source software, noting support for 56 languages in code but room for improvement in documentation, marketing and community support. The document emphasizes that globalization requires active support, education and

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Internationalisation
Translator (nl-NL)
Musician (Saxophone)

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11. Consequences

12. Consequences
Challenges

13. Consequences
Opportunities
Challenges

15. Globalization

16. Globalization
Globalization is the integration of capital,
technology, and information across national
borders, in a way that is creating a single global
market and, to some degree, a global village.
Thomas L. Friedman
The Lexus and the Olive Tree

17. Consequences
Challenges - Opportunities

18. English

19. English
Consequences - Challenges

20. Globalization
Englishnization
Westernization

21. Why English?

22. source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet
"A study made by W3Techs showed that in April
2013, almost 55% of the most visited websites
used English as their content language. Other
top languages which are used at least in 2% of
websites are Russian, German, Spanish, Chinese,
French, Japanese, Arabic and Portuguese."

23. • based on 1 million most visited websites (0.27%)
• identified using only the homepage
• significant higher (especially for English)
• all websites estimate below 50% English
source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet

24. source: www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm

26. Globalization
including
not excluding
Challenges

27. Globalization
Process
Internationalization
Localisation

28. Globalization
Process
Internationalization
Localisation
design
development
testing
The
Product

29. Globalization
Process
Internationalization
Localisation
design
development
testing
localisation
local testing
local marketing
The
Product

30. Process
Internationalization
design
development
testing
The
Product
Requirements

31. Process
Localisation
localisation
The
Product

33. Process
Internationalization
Localisation
design
development
testing
localisation
The
Product

34. I18n Requirements
What languages
• Characters
• RTL
• Space
• Date formats
• phone numbers /
addresses
• Currency
Visual displays
• Graphics
• Videos
Legal requirements
Culture
• Colors, symbols,
names

35. Process
Localisation
localisation
The
Product
translation

36. Process
Localisation
localisation
The
Product
translation

37. Process
Localisation
localisation
The
Product
translation
transcreation
adaptation

38. Process
Localisation
localisation
local testing
The
Product

39. Process
Localisation
localisation
local testing
local marketing
The
Product

41. Requirements
active support of everyone involved
education and negotiation
Challenges

43. Status I18n /L10n

44. Status I18n /L10n
CMS
Code support
56 languages
Multilingual

45. Status I18n /L10n
CMS
Code support
56 languages
Multilingual
Information
Occasionally
JCM - 21 languages
Local Communities

46. Status I18n /L10n
CMS
Code support
56 languages
Multilingual
Information
Occasionally
JCM - 21 languages
Local Communities
Documentation
18 languages

47. Status I18n /L10n
CMS
Code support
56 languages
Multilingual
Information
Occasionally
JCM - 21 languages
Local Communities
Documentation
18 languages
Marketing
XX languages

48. Requirements
active support of everyone involved
education and negotiation
Challenges

49. Requirements
active support of everyone involved
education and negotiation
Challenges
Communication

50. English

51. Just because everyone
speaks English doesn’t mean
everyone is communicating
And, most importantly, doesn’t mean people are as effective
as they want to be

52. Tips for non-English
• Your English is always good enough
• Repeat what you understood
• Ask what you did not understood
• Teach your language
• Teach your culture
Challenges

53. Tips for native-English
• Plain English, no slang
• Keep it short
• Patience, do not interrupt to soon
• Don’t put emphasis on a word
• Teach your language
• Teach your culture
Opportunities

55. Consequences
Challenges

56. Consequences
Challenges
Opportunities

59. Opportunities

60. A well translated world
is a more connected one
Opportunities
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