1. … because open source matters
Joomla!
Initiatives in Mongolia
Нүүдэлчид 2.0
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2. Country profile
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3. Country profile
 Capital city: Ulaanbaatar
 Official language: Mongolian
 Official script: Mongolian Cyrillic
 Government: Parliamentary republic
 Area: 1,564,115.75 km2, 19th largest in the world
 Population: 2,754,686 (2010 National Census)
 Landlines: 404,400
 Mobile operators: Mobicom (71%), SkyTel (15%), Unitel (14%),
G-Mobile (1%)
 Mobile users: 1’401’174 (as of Jan 2009)
 Internet penetration: 60% urban, 30% rural (ADSL, Fiber optic,
Wimax, IPWireless, 3G, Dial-Up)
 Internet TLD: .MN
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4. Joomla!’s invasion into Mongolia
 “Web site for every organization, E-mail for every
public employee” project inception by ICTPA in 2005
 Joomla! International Edition – March 2007
 Based on Joomla! 1.0.12
 Unicode UTF-8 implementation
 Pluggable language files
 Admin, front-end translation made possible
 Language sensitive module switching
 Joomla! 1.5 Mongolian edition – September 2009
 Complete admin and front-end translation
 Joomla! 1.7 Mongolian translation – January 2012
 Joomla! 2.5 Mongolian translation – April 2012
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5. Some statistics
Number of websites running Joomla! Mongolia CMS ~40’000
Number of government websites running Joomla! Mongolia CMS 361
(only active websites are included and there are many more under
development).
Number of websites deployed with support of USAID 8
Number of government officers attended CMS training 156
Number of tax officers attended CMS training 48
Number of public audience and students attended Joomla! lectures 920
(2 sessions in Ikh Zasag university, Institute of Finance and Economics)
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6. Some statistics
Number of websites running Joomla! International CMS ~73800
Number of languages that Joomla! International has been translated into 12
•Mongolia (Official website – www.n20.mn)
•Thailand (www.joomlacorner.com)
•France (www.joomlafrance.org)
•Poland (www.joomla.pl)
•Slovakia (www.joomla.sk)
•Hungary (www.joomla.org.hu)
•Germany (www.joomla.de)
•Vietnam (www.joomlavietnam.org)
•South Africa (www.joomla.org.za)
•Spain (www.joomlaspanish.org)
•Czech Republic (www.joomlaportal.cz)
•Bosnia (www.bhjoomla.com)
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7. Our activities
 Localization of Joomla!
 Quarterly training sessions for government
IT administrators
 Regular news update regarding Joomla!
 Lectures for university students
 Free Joomla! tutorials in Mongolian
 Designing websites for key government
institutions
 Security audits and consultation for
government organizations
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8. Success factors
 Complete all-around support for Joomla!
 Needs to strong champion or counterpart
from the Government
 Strive for Sustainability
 Human resource – Development of web skills
 Consistent and open communication
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9. Lessons learnt
 Build a strong and sustainable community
 Identify community leaders and build a
leadership team
 Educate and grow local developer community
 Organize more frequent events
 Needs more financial and technical support
from the OSM and leadership
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10. Naomads 2.0 community
 Administrators
 T.Altansukh
 D.Anarbold
 N.Tsetsbold
 М.Erdenechimeg
 I.Ider
 T.Tomorsukh
 B.Lkhagvasuren
 Joomla! tutorials
 Joomla! packages maintenance
 Joomla! User Group – Mongolia
 IT Dictionary
 GNU/GPL licenses in Mongolian for references
 Mozilla and Wordpress localization
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11. CABINET SECRETARIAT OF THE INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION
GOVERNMENT OF MONGOLIA TECHNOLOGY AND POST AUTHORITY
Econom ic Policy Reform Nomads 2.0
and C om petitiveness www.n20.mn
Project