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by D.C.Misra
ICT and local language content
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D. C. Misra
Former Development Commissioner Delhi, and Chairman of the Taskforce for IT Policy, NCT of Delhi, India
dc_misra
@hotmail.com
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- If this is a regional initiative to develop local language computing capacity in Asia, what is Pan Asia Networking (PAN) programme?
- When did the Web search giant Google launch its interface in four Indian languages and which are these Indian languages?
- If these are different standards, what are the following:
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(a) ISCII,
| (b) UNICODE,
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| (d) INSROT, and (e) PASCII?
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- What are the following:
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(a) IndoBase 1.0
| (b) IndoWord 3.0 |
| (c) IndoWeb
| (d) EXACT |
| (e) IndoMail, and
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(f) JULI?
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- What do the following have in common:
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(a)indipatra,
| (b)Malyalipathram,
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(c)TamilAnjal, and
| (d)Telugulekha?
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- This retired railway engine driver in Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh has made most of the contribution to this page of the Web site by translating literary works from one Indian language to another. Name him.
- (a) What is Indic-Computing project and when was it started, and (b) When and where was the first Indic-Computing workshop held?
- What is TDIL and when was the programme launched?
- (a) What is CoIL-NET and who started it, and (b) What is
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CoIL-Tech and when was the programme launched?
- (a) What is the present size of the local language
applications market in India? (b) What is its expected size by 2005?
- What are the following?
| (a) Anusaaraka,
| (b) Microsoft Bhasha,
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| (c) Shakthi,
| (d) Shubh Labh, and
| (e) Akruti?
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- If these are among pioneering Web sites in Indian
languages, what are the following:
| (a) Vishva Kannada,
| (b) Prabhasakshi,
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| (c) Indianlanguages.com,
| (d) Ramrampavna.com, and
| (e) Kaavvyaalaya
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- If it is a digital library and e-scholarship portal
and has searchable 15,000 records in Hindi and 600 records in Kannada,
what is vidyanidhi? Who started the programme and when?
- When were the following launched?
(a) Webdunia.com - world’s first Hindi portal,
(b) epatra.com - world’s first language email service in Indian languages,
(c) evarta.com - world’s first chat in 11 major Indian languages,
(d) Webulagam.com - world’s first Tamil portal,
(e) Webprapancham.com - world’s first Telugu portal,
(f) Weblokam.com – world’s first Malayalam portal
- What is common between the following?
| (a) LEAP Mail
| (b) IndoMail
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| (c) Apnamail
| (d) AnkurMail
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- What is krishiworld and was set up by whom?
- What are the following?
| (a) Anglabharti
| (b) Anubharti
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| (c) Gyan Nidhi
| (d) Chitraksharika
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| (e) Lekhika and
| (f) Swarnakriti
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- If it represented a major breakthrough in tackling
the complex problem of man-machine linguistic interface for Indian languages,
what is GIST and who developed it?
- What are the following and who developed them?
(a) (i) Avishkar (ii) Roopa (iii) Suchika
(b) (i) Patrika and (ii) Smarnika
- (a) This mailjol – a free multilingual email service after
three years of service - has ended. Why did the company discontinue the
service? (b) It says: I Langoo, You Langoo….We all Langoo. What then is
Langoo?
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