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"Regional Consultation on Local Language Computing Policy in Developing Asia" |
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January 22nd - 24th, 2007,
Thimphu,
Bhutan |
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Access to information is critical for human development. This access is only meaningful to developing Asian populations if ICTs support creation and dissemination of information in languages spoken by these people. There are no easy out-of-the-box solutions for the diverse set of more than 3000 languages spoken across Asia. Localization must be individually done for each language by native speakers of the language. Thus, localization of ICTs requires a sustained effort to build local capacity to develop these solutions and to disseminate them for use. It is not possible to achieve this target without continued support of long-term national and regional level initiatives. |
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This consultation aims to bring together researchers and policy
makers to discuss this and related aspects of language computing.
Presenters will share their existing national policies promoting
language computing and relevant projects being undertaken so far by
their respective governments. The meeting will also be engaging the
participants into discussions to document what are the best
practices and formulate what would be the best way forward to
provide access to developing populations across Asia. We will look
at issues related to technology, content, training, licensing and
other related facets of local language computing. |
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Organizers | ||
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The consultation
is organized through PAN Localization project with collaboration of
the following organizations: |
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