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

 

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   Skype: samiran.gupta.icann. 

For those joining by phone, dial-in details will be provided subsequently. Please note the agenda:

 

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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

 

Position	Name	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

Contact and Additional Information

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Regards,
Akshat Joshi
C-DAC GIST