Regional Translation - Central Asia

Central Asia:

South of Russia, west of China, north of the Middle East

Each country has its own native language
The region was all part of the Soviet Union
Prior to becoming part of Soviet Union most languages written in Arabic script
During soviet union, Russian official language. Native languages became switched to cyrillic script
Now there are debates in various countries about whether to use cyrillic script, latin script, or even arabic script.
So there is debate about whether to use Russian or native language and another debate about what script to use for native languages.
In most schools - native language is language of instruction
When it comes to software almost everything is in Russian

2005 with tactical tech - FlossCamp Tajikstan

Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan - Linux-based operating systems in native languages

"To create demand you have to have supply."

How to create demand:

"Computer science classes are taught in Tajik, but the software is still in Russian or English.
There is economic incentive to use larger languages because there is a larger market.
Force state institutions to use native languages.

Firefox available in Tajik, but most people still download Firefox in Russian.