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The Lwazi project aims to develop a telephone-based
speech-driven information system. It was
commissioned by the Department of Arts and
Culture.
The project will provide South Africans with an
opportunity to access government information
and services in any of South Africa's eleven official
languages using either landline telephones or
mobile telephones, free of charge.
Project Lwazi is being developed because more
and more South Africans have access to and
use telephones as a means to communicate.
At the same time, not all South Africans have access to the Internet or to printed media. This makes a telephone a useful alternative for accessing important information.
The beneficiaries of this project are the South African government departments and their related institutions. They will use the technologies developed during the Lwazi project to provide information and optimise their service-delivery to the South African community.
The users of Lwazi will be anyone seeking to access government information.
Lwazi means "knowledge".
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About Lwazi
