As part of OpenCraft's commitment to contributing to ICT4D and software localization, Abdel-Karim Mardini from OpenCraft is participating in The second workshop of the Pan African Localisation project, "PAL2" which is being held in Tshwane, South Africa, on 5-7 November 2007.

PAL2 is the third workshop on localization in Africa that is funded by IDRC, following the first Pan African Localization workshop in Casablanca, Morocco (13-15/6/2005) and The Pan African Research on L10N Workshop & Localization Blitz in Marrakech, Morocco (24-27/2/2007) which OpenCraft also participated in.