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India “Rupee” Symbol

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…

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Relevance of Unicode to e-Governance

Relevance of Unicode to e-Governance

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…

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My Quote in Mint Newspaper

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…

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Tamil Internet Conference 2010 – It’s Over!

(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…

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Press coverage of Tamil Internet Conference 2010

I appreciate doing informative interviews with the press, it is even more important to do it as a “Chair” of an international organization like INFITT. Press interactions and the publicity as a result really helps an organization and in reaching its message to a wider audience. At the same time, I am not a person who likes to be covered in the press for any reason and so I am quite measured in my interactions with Media. Few things I have learned over the years are that: In general there may not be anything called “off the record” in Press…

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