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LRC establishes link with Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
Wednesday, 19 April 2006
Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Localisation Research Centre (LRC) - Malaysia
The leading Malaysian University, the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak at Kuching (UNIMAS), and the University of Limerick’s Localisation Research Centre (LRC) establish closer links between the two institutions to promote internationalisation and localisation–related research and teaching.
The Universiti of Malaysia Sarawak at Kuching, represented by its Vice Chancellor, Prof. Dr. Abdul Rashid Abdullah, and the LOCALISATION RESEARCH CENTRE (LRC) at the UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK, IRELAND, represented by its Director Reinhard Schäler, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding at Southeast Asia’s premier International Symposium on ICT for Rural Development in Kuching, Malaysia.
The two organisation are planning joint research projects, staff exchanges and joint funding applications. In addition, the agreement covers the establishment of a mirror site of the LRC’s Localisation Technology Laboratory and Showcase (LOTS), the holding of LRC – Malaysia events and training courses, and the initiation of joint research projects in the area of internationalisation and localisation.
“This memorandum of understanding lays the foundation for the
cooperation between Europe’s and Malaysia’s leading research centres.
Combining UNIMAS’ expertise in Southeast Asia’s emerging ICT
communities with the LRC’s long-standing internationalisation and
localisation research agenda will generate terrific opportunities for
both organisations”, said Reinhard Schäler, Director of the LRC at
the University of Limerick.
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Prof. Dr. Abdul Rashid Abdullah, Vice Chancellor of UNIMAS, said
“There is an enormous interest in Southeast Asia to remove what has
often been described as the Digital Divide, to make Information and
Communication Technologies (ICTs) more accessible to non-English
speakers here in Southeast Asia while, at the same time, allowing the
Western World to access our own digital content – content that
originated outside of the western cultural reference system. Academic
research, guided by social and economic needs, has to develop
methodologies and technologies which go beyond the mainstream
localisation efforts we have become so familiar with. We are confident
that UNIMAS and the LRC will play a central role in coming up with
innovative and inspiring solutions.”
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Photo attached: The Vice Chancellor of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Professor Abdul Rashid Abdullah, and Reinhard Schäler, Director LRC at UL, sign the Memorandum of Understanding on 19 April 2006 in Kuching, Malaysia.
About the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
The UNIMAS mission is to establish itself as an exemplary university of internationally acknowledged stature, and as a scholarly institution of preference and choice for students and staff through the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research and scholarship. The undergraduate programmes have been designed to make them relevant to the needs of society and industry. The concept of total development of the individual, which underpins the university’s teaching-learning
programmes, aims at instilling autonomy and cooperation among the students. The other concept - education for capability – equips the students with specific time-related skills which are needed in today’s working environments, as well as building a strong sense of competence and confidence in each student, to continue learning and adapting to the work places of the future.
For more information visit www.unimas.my
About the Localisation Research Centre
The LRC at UL is the focal point and the research and educational centre for the localisation community. The LRC has become the focus point – at national and international level – for both those involved in the localisation industry and those requiring information about it. Indigenous and overseas companies, government departments and agencies, researchers and students, the media and international consultancy firms, and the European Commission regularly contact the centre when they require reliable and independent industry information. The LRC was established in 1995 with the support of Irish government agencies and has a 20 person strong Industrial Advisory Board.
LRC launches Localisation Tools Distribution, supported by six industrial partners
Wednesday, 19 April 2006
Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
LRC launches Localisation Tools and Technologies Distribution
The Localisation Research Centre (LRC) at the University of Limerick announces the release of the LOTS Satellite Distribution, a unique collection of localisation tools and technologies from six leading developers worth tens of thousands of euro, which will be distributed to selected Partner Universities by the LRC free-of-charge.
The Localisation Tools and Technologies Showcase (LOTS) Satellite Distribution was made possible because of a unique partnership between the LRC and six leading localisation tools and technologies developers: Alchemy Development, PASS GmbH, Project Open,
SDL/TRADOS, Stormdance, and WebBudget. While the companies have made their tools and technologies - worth tens of thousands of euro – available to the LOTS Distribution free-of-charge, the LRC will maintain and distribute it to selected partner organisations and supply each of them with 15 licenses for the tools included in the distribution.
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The LOTS Distribution is a central contribution by the LRC and its industrial partners to the Global Initiative for Local Computing
(GILC), launched in September 2005 at the University of Limerick with the signing of the “Limerick Declaration” by representatives of universities from Asia, South America, Africa and Europe
(www.gilc.info).
The LRC established LOTS as part of the European Union funded project ELECT in 2003. 24 Companies from Europe, Asia and the USA contributed 31 tools to LOTS, worth more than €350,000, together with sample files and tutorials. LOTS has since become a unique resource for students, researchers and industry professionals.
(www.electonline.org). The LOTS Distribution now makes this unique resource available to students and researchers globally.
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“The value of the LOTS Distribution cannot be over-estimated. For the first time, and thanks to the unprecedented cooperation of our partners in the localisation tools industry, a large number of world-leading localisation tools and technologies are becoming accessible to students and researchers in one single distribution. The localisation teaching and research landscape will never be the same with universities now gaining free access to state-of-the-art technologies which they could otherwise not afford”, said Reinhard Schäler, Director of the LRC at the University of Limerick, launching the LOTS Distribution at Southeast Asia’s International Symposium on ICT for Rural Development in
Kuching, Malaysia, in a special ceremony attended by dignitaries and officials from a number of Southeast Asian countries.
About the Contributors to the LOTS Satellite Distribution
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