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Indian Language Internet Alliance to build Indic internet

BG Mahesh · November 5, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Partners of ILIA

Google India has taken the initiative of working with various stake holders of the internet eco system in India to grow Indian Languages on the internet. Through this effort, India is expected to from the internet user base from the current 250 million to 500 million by 2017, a majority of whom will be from mobile internet users.

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Indic Android Hackathon – What can Google do for Indic?

BG Mahesh · February 23, 2014 · 1 Comment

indic android hackathon 2014, bangalore

The first ever Indic Android Hackathon was held in Bangalore on Feb 21, 2014 to discuss Indic on Android.

Filed Under: Indian Languages Tagged With: android, google, indian fonts, indic fonts

Multi-Lingual Web – Challenges & Opportunities

BG Mahesh · December 20, 2011 · 2 Comments

Thinking Aloud! December 2011 issue

My article was published in Thinking Aloud! magazine (December 2011). The entire issue focused on Indian languages on the internet and mobile.

Thinking Aloud! December 2011 issue

India has about 100 million desktop & 50-150 mobile internet users. These numbers vary depending on whom you ask. IAMAI’s recent report says 18 million use the internet in India on a daily basis. Clearly, we have a long way to go to make this ‘daily’ number bigger.

One of the reasons I constantly hear from people is – Indians are not going online because the Internet is for English speaking elite user base. There isn’t enough content in Indian languages for the masses to be engaged on the internet. Yes, this is true when compared to the English language but there is sufficient language content to keep a user busy.

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Filed Under: Indian Languages Tagged With: indian fonts, indic fonts, phonetic keyboard, thinking aloud

Immortalizing Narayan Murthy: Should he create Murty Indic fonts?

BG Mahesh · October 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Saturday editions of Mint are always special. Today’s article “Back to the future” caught my eye which mentioned Indic fonts (Indian language fonts). Even though I do read several newspapers (online/offline) I somehow missed the news in September about The Murty Classical Library of India (MCLI).  The MCLI project was set up in 2010 with a gift of $5.2 million (approximately Rs. 25.5 crore now) from NRN’s son Rohan Murty. MCIL will release its first set of six Indian classics translated into English in 2013.

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Filed Under: Indian Languages Tagged With: indian fonts, indic fonts, narayan murthy

Column: Want to type in Kannada on the internet?

BG Mahesh · December 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Vijay Next: How to type in Kannada on the internet

My column in Vijaya Next newspaper on how to enter text in Kannada language

Filed Under: Internet Tagged With: indic, indic fonts, kannada, my column, vijay next

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