Sea Monkey

DESCRIPTION
Sea Monkey is a project of developing all-in-one internet suite in Pashto language. The Afghanistan Computer Science Association has been developing Sea Monkey in Pashto language as a community effort for quite some time. Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept. Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, SeaMonkey appeals to advanced users, web developers and corporate users as far as Pashto language is concerned. For Afghanistan, Sea Monkey is one effort which can reach out to the entire country for accessing internet and avail digital media.

CITATION
For a country like Afghanistan this is manna from heaven. Sea Monkey is community based effort to create all-in-internet suite in Pashto language.  Sea Monkey  can use Mozilla browser, email, newsgroup client, HTML Editor, IRC Chat, and web development tools - all in Pashto language. This project removes the digital gap and content gap because it removes the main barrier to digital world, the English Language. People will no longer need to learn English Language because they can now see their native language on their desktops. Through Sea Monkey project Afghanistan can leapfrog beyond digital divide and avail the digital opportunity to a great extent.

Producer
Rafiqullah Kakar
Habibur Rahman Ghaznawe
Sharifullah Mahboob
 
Organisation
Afghanistan Computer Science Association

Location
Kabul, AFGHANISTAN

Telephone
93 799 890933

Email
rafiqullah.kakar@acsa.org.af
habib.ghaznawe@acsa.org.af
Sharifullah.mahboob@acsa.org.af

Technology/Medium
Web/Internet

Language
Pashto