Overcoming Language Barriers

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
ìUnity in Diversityî is the cultural characteristic of India. This is facilitated by Information & Communication Technologies (ICT), through evolving and adhering to Standards for information interchange across Indian languages. Participation of industry is essential in rapid dissemination of technology for the people at large. This issue deals with standardisation issues of internal encoding of Devanagari script which is used for Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Konkani as well as Sindhi. Revisions in the UNICODE are presented subsequent upon the feedback from the language experts and the language directorates of the State Governments on the draft published in VishwaBharat@tdil, No.2, May 2001. Language design guides will be useful in designing language technology products. Industry consensus emerged first time this year for standardisation of fonts. This will prove revolutionary milestone in ICT for masses. This issue entails also the outcome of the Language Technology Business Meet held first time with prospective IT industries on November 7-8, 2001, in which 40 technology handshakes were signed. The joint efforts of Government, Academic and Industry (GAI) will lay the foundation for emerging knowledge-based society. Consolidation of decade-long efforts in the field of language technology raises optimism of collaborative GAI Venture to accelerate benefits of ICT for masses and to improve knowledge generation capacities.

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: