[Fsf-friends] Indian language computing

[Frederick Noronha (FN)]

This is the text of an advert from the Indian Express, May 21, 2005:

 	Partner the nation on the road to IT empowerment.

 	The Department of Information Technology, Ministry of
 	Communications and Information Technology, Government of
 	India's mission is to proliferate the use of Indian
 	languages on computers, to overcome language barriers that
 	restrict the nation's path to knowledge and development.

 	To give an impetus to the movement, the DIT invites
 	individuals, public, private agencies and academic
 	institutions to participate in a national initiative
 	in public-private partnership to launch and distribute
 	applications, tools, utilities and products developed
 	for Indian language computing through a campaign spearheaded
 	by the DIT with the Centre for the Development of Advanced
 	Computing (C-DAC).

 	We invite you to join us for a discussion about the
 	tools, technologies or resources you can offer for any
 	of the 22 official Indian languages.

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 	* Fonts-True Type Fonts and Open Type Fonts * Keyboard
 	Drivers * Font Encoding Converters * Storage Code Converters *
 	Open Office (Word Processor) * Presentation Tool * Drawing
 	Tool * Spreadsheet * Browser * E-mail client * OCRs Optical
 	Character REcognition * Spell Checker * Dictionary * Thesaurus
 	* Keyboard Typing Tutor * Language Learning Tool * TTS-
 	Text To Speech System * ASR Automatic Speech Recognition *
 	Corpora -- Suitable for the developer community * Machine
 	Assisted Translation System * Braile utilities and others.

 	The tools and fonts will be consolidated in a CD for free
 	distribution in a public release function, starting with Hindi,
 	in the next few weeks. A response by May 30, 2005 will
 	therefore be appreciated.

 	Unveil a new chapter of knowledge-sharing across language
 	and cultural barriers.

 	Please respond to us at indianlanguages@cdac.in and
 	register with details soon at http://www.ildc.in or
 	http://www.ildc.gov.in

 	Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing
 	A Scientific Society of the Ministry of Communications
 	and Information Technology, Govt of India
 	Pune University Campus, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007
 	http://www.cdac.in
 	Tel +91-20-2569 4000 01/02/03 Fax +91-20-2560 4059

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