{"ref":"0.2.0","ref_type":"tag","master_branch":"master","description":"Namibia is a multilingual nation, and like other African countries, comprises of numerous indigenous languages besides the official language being English. The national language policy has changed over time and it now recognizes some of the local languages in formal structures of the country such as lower primary education. Despite the fact that we have all these languages being used in our daily lives, only a handful of them actually have recorded content, developed resources such as local language dictionaries or publications for people from the different indigenous communities. The few resources that are available or were created in the past, are not easily accessible and are also not update to date with all of the existing content. Our research project was initiated with the purpose of realizing the importance of indigenous languages in Namibia and their many applications in our country and how we could manage  and use it by allow people to collaborate and to contribute towards the design and development of an online open-content platform/dictionary for Namibian Indigenous Languages. Through the transitions of different technological eras that we are experiencing, we have to accept that technology is evolving and that Information and Communication Technology can now be found everywhere in our country. The vital reality is that ICT is also being accepted for daily contributions to our methods of living, teaching, learning, and also working. This alone, has encouraged us to take a step towards the digitalization of indigenous language content by designing and developing a Namibian online collaborative open-content dictionary-like platform for searching, adding, defining, translating and storing of all the existing content of our various local languages we can acquire.  The main concern here that we are looking to overcome here is providing a readily available, accessible, searchable and well-defined language content structure that will serve a convenient purpose for anyone who wants to use it and look beyond language as a barrier in the Namibian context. To accomplish this, we needed to employ different design techniques by looking at similar existing online open-content language dictionaries with a group of participants to inform our decisions of user expectations in terms of features and experience in using the platform considering diverse users with different backgrounds, knowledge and skills in ICT.  Keywords: Collaborative Open-Content Dictionary, Preserving Indigenous Languages, Indigenous Communities, Languages of Namibia","pusher_type":"user"}