Hmm I don't know how much I'm allowed to comment on this, but I might say that one of those "Global Provider Programs" were keen to break all rules set in the contract for personal benefit, aware that Linden Lab would hardly be able to track them down due to the language barrier...

Maybe they rethought their strategy because of that. I can agree that it's not easy to become "Second Life's representative in a country" without a massive support team and a full-blown local advertising campaign...

The Community Gateways seem to fit in the "gap" between "zero personalisation/localisation" (e.g. LL's own Orientation Areas) and "full immersion in a culture/language" that oversees all the aspects of the platform: orientation, welcome, training, land sales & parcel lease, culturally-tailored content...