Dear All, Further to today's fruitful meeting, I am delighted to inform you all that we are almost ready with the first-cut of the Devanagari LGR document which has been cursorily checked by the Integration Panel members. Once we are through with the Devanagari LGR, we can treat that as a guiding document and start working on other scripts on similar lines. Also, it is not assumed that Devanagari case will be able to address all the nuances that are there among all other brahmi based scripts. We will definitely need to take up each script on individual basis. However, with Devanagari LGR document almost ready, we have clear picture of the template to be followed. I will share the same with you all by next week. Regards, Akshat Joshi C-DAC GIST On 03-03-2017 10:16, Udaya Narayana Singh wrote:
Dear Members, I am pleased to share with you that since the ICANN57 meeting held in Hyderabad in November 2016, there has been increased interest in Internationalized Domain Names and proliferation of Indic content in India. The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) hosted a session on /Proliferation of Indic Computing/ at ICANN57 which was well-attended by members of government, industry, academia and civil society. Over the past few months, we have seen growing interest by those in Indic computing, to participate in the Neo Brahmi Generation Panel (NBGP). Apart from that, the Government of India is very keen for the early development of Indic computing resources, to facilitate greater penetration of Indic computing. Therefore, with that in mind, ICANN is organizing a half-day session, particularly for members of IAMAI on 8^th March 2017, in New Delhi. The full agenda for this meeting follows below. NBGP members are invited to a meeting with IAMAI to discuss how industry can actively and effectively contribute to NBGP in taking the Generation Panel’s work forward to develop the Neo-Brahmi Label Generation Rules to support local language IDNs at the top-level. You may like to join this meeting in person, if deputed by your institution or project/programme, or alternatively, by remote telephonic participation. I request those who wish to join - either in person or by phone - to please send a line of confirmation by 6^th March to Mr Samiran Gupta, Head, ICANN-India at : +91 99902 18198, E-mail: samiran.gupta@icann.org <mailto:samiran.gupta@icann.org> Skype: samiran.gupta.icann.
For those joining by phone, dial-in details will be provided subsequently. Please note the agenda:
_____ *ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING * LUTYENS BALLROOM, EROS HOTEL, NEW DELHI, INDIA ** *AGENDA* *8^th March, 2017* *10:00 – 13:30 Hrs* *TIME*
*SUBJECT*
*LEAD* 10:00 – 10:30
Refreshments 10:30 – 10:40
Welcome and Introductions; Introductions of remote participants
Samiran Gupta 10:40 – 10:50
Welcome address by Chair, NBGP
Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh 10:50 – 11:00
Introduction to IAMAI
IAMAI 11:00 – 11:25
Introduction to ICANN’s IDN TLD program ·Objective of IDN TLD Program ·The role of a GPs ·Role of community members ·Current state of progress of different GPs ·Scope of the NBGP
Sarmad Hussain 11:25 – 11:45
Update on NBGP progress and next steps
Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh Akshat Joshi, C-DAC 11:45 – 12:00
Tea/coffee break 12:00 – 13:30
·Participants’ discussion on role of industry and business community in the NBGP ·Conclusion and call to action
All participants 13:30
Lunch at Blooms Restaurant
** With best wishes, Professor Udaya Narayana Singh Chair, Neo-Brahmi Panel (NBGP), ICANN Cell: +91-98301-32234 & 94340-50218
Home-page www.udayanarayana.com <http://www.udayanarayana.com/> * * *Position*
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*Organization*
*Country* *Language Expertise* *Chair* Udaya Narayana Singh Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal India Bengali, Maithili,Hindi, English Member Anupam Agrawal Tata Consultancy Service India Hindi, Bengali Member Akshat S. Joshi C-DAC India Hindi, Marathi Member Abhijit Dutta Wikimedia India Bengali, Hindi Member Mahesh D. Kulkarni C-DAC India Marathi, Hindi Member Neha Gupta C-DAC India Hindi Member Nishit Jain C-DAC India Hindi Member Prabhakar Pandey C-DAC India Hindi Member Raiomond Doctor NLP Consultant India English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati Member N. DeivaSundaram NDS Lingsoft Solutions Pvt Ltd India Tamil Member Shantaram S. Warde Walawalikar Independent Researcher India Konkani Member Bal Krishna Bal Kathmandu University Nepal Nepali Member Ganesh Murmu Ranchi University India Santali Member Balaram Prasain Tribhuvan University Nepal Nepali Member Rajib Chakraborty Society for Natural Language Technology Research India Bangla (Bengali) Member Gurpreet Singh Lehal Punjabi University Patiala India Panjabi Member Saroja Bhate University of Pune India Sanskrit Member Shambhu Kumar Singh National Translation Misson, Mysore India Maithili Member SwarnaPrabha Chainary Guwahati University India Bodo Member Ghanashyam Nepal Benares Hindu University& University of North Bengal India Nepali Member Kalyan Vasudeo Kale Formerly affiliated with University of Pune India Marathi Member Shashi Pathania P.G.D. of Dogri, University of Jammu India Dogri Member Santhosh Thottingal Wikimedia foundation India Malayalam, Sourashtra, Tamil Member Uma Maheshwar G CALTS, Univ. of Hyderabad India Telugu Member Girish Chandra Mishra
Language Technology Centre, Ravenshaw University India Odia Member K. C. Tikayat ray Odia Bhasa Pratisthan India Odia Member DEBAJIT SHARMA Anundoram Borooah Institute of Language Art and Culture India Assamese*//* Member BASANTA KUMAR PANDA Regional Institute of Education (NCERT) India Odia Member Arvind Bhandari Gujarat University India Gujarati Member Harish Chowdhary NIXI India Hindi Member Ajay Data DATAINFOSYS India Hindi, others Member Chitrita Chatterjee Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) India Multiple languages represented by members of IAMAI Member U.B. Pavanaja http://vishvakannada.com/ India Kannada
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