கடந்த சூன் மாதம் மிகச் சிறப்பாக நடந்த தமிழ் இணைய மாநாடு 2010க்கு உழைத்த அரசு குழுவில் இருந்த அனைவருக்கும் தமிழக அரசின் தகவல் தொழில்நுட்பத்துறை சார்பாக மாண்புமிகு அமைச்சர் அவர்களால் ஒரு மாலை விருந்து கடந்த மாதம் (செப்டம்பர் 28) கொடுக்கப்பட்டது. பணியாற்றிய அனைவருக்கும் ஒரு நினைவுப் பரிசும் கொடுக்கப்பட்டது. நிகழ்ச்சியின் படங்கள் கீழே:
The Government of India recently introduced a dedicated symbol for its currency (Rupee). Rupee (Rs.) is being used by several other countries including our neighbours Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka & others. So having a dedicated symbol for India becomes necessitated for it to be differentiated from others. Initially I was sceptical about this symbol, considered this to be a publicity effort by the central government and that the symbol has to be accepted by all language speakers in the country. In the last few weeks as I see the growing usage of this in Media and elsewhere, I am convinced…
When Dr Santosh Babu (IAS), Managing Director of ELCOT invited me to present in this year CETIT Conference, I had not known much about the event. Then searching on the Internet, I learned that “CETIT 2010 is the second year of the conference-cum-exhibition on e-Governance organized by FICCI in association with ELCOT. CeTIT claims to provide an opportunity to take stock of the practice and the promise of digital technologies on e-Governance”. This certainly sounded interesting, so here I am. This year program happened yesterday and today in Chennai Trade Centre. I presented on the topic of “Relevance of Unicode…
Today in Hindustan Times Mint business paper there was an article on recently concluded Tamil Internet Conference 2010 and it included a quote and information from me. The article titled “Mixing Tamil and tech to book computing” was done by Ms Niranjana Ramesh, who interviewed me some time back and we had a good discussion stretching for few hours. You can see more of the past press coverage of TI2010 in my earlier post here. A case in point is the word computer. For some time now, it’s been called kanipori in Tamil. “But somewhere along the way, we Net…
(I am doing this post in English for benefit of a wider audience. Please treat the below post as indicative and as my personal take, for official coverage please contact TI2010 secretariat or INFITT’s secretariat) Phew! (taking a deep breath). The last two weeks of working for Tamil Internet Conference 2010 (TI2010) was really tough for me. It was not at all easy, but personally, I found it to be a great learning experience for me, worth every drop of my sweat. I have a lot to say in this post and I don’t know where to begin – anyway…
