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 8th 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 6th 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: _____ ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING LUTYENS BALLROOM, EROS HOTEL, NEW DELHI, INDIA AGENDA 8th 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), ICANNCell: +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. 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