Internet alliance to break language barriers
Updated: Nov 03, 2014 04:41:21pm
New Delhi, Nov 3 (KNN) In order to promote the growth of Indic or Indo Aryan language content online which would enable 300 million Indian language speakers to become highly engaged in the internet by 2017, the Indian Language Internet Alliance (ILIA) was launched today.
Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Prakash Javadekar launched ILIA which is a consortium of 18 internet industry partners along with Google.
As the first initiative of ILIA, the Minister launched the website www.hindiweb.com, which would be a platform for Hindi speaking internet users to discover Hindi content across websites, apps, videos and blogs.
The new initiative would expedite good quality online-content generation in Indian languages and that it would provide an inclusive platform for non-English speaking users to break language-barriers and access online information easily, Javadekar said, according to an official release.
He said the adaptive style and skills of people had successfully ensured the perfect blending between technology use and the masses at large.
The Indian mind-set with its ingrained adaptive skills ensured the prolific use of technology across different sectors. The widespread use of internet and mobile phone was a good instance of technology blending with the needs and requirements of people related to information use, he added.
Elaborating further, the Minister said the rise of internet was not a threat to traditional media platforms as all sectors of media had been growing rapidly and simultaneously along with the Internet.
To ILIA, he extended the support of the government with key policy initiatives that would enable faster growth of Internet and mobile based services. (KNN/ES)
Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Prakash Javadekar launched ILIA which is a consortium of 18 internet industry partners along with Google.
As the first initiative of ILIA, the Minister launched the website www.hindiweb.com, which would be a platform for Hindi speaking internet users to discover Hindi content across websites, apps, videos and blogs.
The new initiative would expedite good quality online-content generation in Indian languages and that it would provide an inclusive platform for non-English speaking users to break language-barriers and access online information easily, Javadekar said, according to an official release.
He said the adaptive style and skills of people had successfully ensured the perfect blending between technology use and the masses at large.
The Indian mind-set with its ingrained adaptive skills ensured the prolific use of technology across different sectors. The widespread use of internet and mobile phone was a good instance of technology blending with the needs and requirements of people related to information use, he added.
Elaborating further, the Minister said the rise of internet was not a threat to traditional media platforms as all sectors of media had been growing rapidly and simultaneously along with the Internet.
To ILIA, he extended the support of the government with key policy initiatives that would enable faster growth of Internet and mobile based services. (KNN/ES)
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