Localizing Orbot, a Tor network-based circumvention tool, into Aymara with the Jaqi Aru team in El Alto, Bolivia

Localization Lab is a global nonprofit that helps mission-driven organizations make their tools accessible, usable, and impactful across languages and regions.

Our Services

  • Localization Management

    Once your tool is technically prepared for localization, our team steps in to manage the entire localization process—from translation to review.

  • Localization Audits and UX

    Is your tool already available in a given language but you don’t have data on how users in that context use your tool? We can help you understand if your existing localization is working for you.

  • Internationalization Readiness

    Our localization team will work with your engineering team to lay a foundation for successful localization. We make sure your tool is ready for different languages and cultures, which helps translate and adapt it more easily and accurately.

  • Market Research and User Discovery

    Think your product would resonate in a specific region or country? Wonder how users there are currently navigating your UX? Would you like projections of how many more users you might reach if your tool was properly localized in a given context?

  • Targeted Outreach and Community Engagement

    Our community engagement teams connect tools with the people who use them through AMAs with developers, train-the-trainer workshops, culturally grounded glossary-building, and Localization Sprints to translate and review key content.

What our partners and contributors say about us

  • Localization Lab was one of the first organizations to respond during the July 2024 uprising in Bangladesh. Several important circumvention tools and guides were quickly localized, and these are still serving the community.

    Shoeb Abdullah, Activate Rights co-founder & executive director

  • These translations are not symbolic; they are lifelines. They allow frontline activists, journalists, and community defenders to access safety-critical information in the languages they understand best.

    Natasha Msonza, Digital Society of Africa chief executive officer

  • Without Localization Lab's persistent efforts, countless Chinese users would be left struggling to navigate a heavily monitored and censored digital landscape

    @j3meng, Chinese language contributor

  • Localization Lab’s work is of high quality and brings meaningful benefits to the Myanmar community.

    Tun Tun Aung, K-12 Computer Science Teacher, Open-Source Software Trainer, Visiting Lecturer at Myanmar Ethnic Colleges in Thailand, and Myanmar Language Localization Expert

  • From securing mail communication with Mailvelope, and providing a safe and secure whistleblower platform with GlobaLeaks, to creating and distributing tools and guides that help journalists do their critical work more securely, everything that Localization Lab does leaves a positive impact.

    Igor Krainović, Croatian language contributor and coordinator

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