"Regional Conference on Localized ICT Development & Dissemination Across Asia"

PAN Localization project is basically a regional initiative for  developing local language computing capacity in Asia. It  primarily aims to develop a sustainable human resource  capacity in the Asian region for R&D in areas of local  language technology, content and training. It also intends  to raise current levels of technological support for Asian  languages and advance policy for local language content  creation and access across Asia for development. The  project is developing evaluation methodologies in order to  measure the effects of language computing. In the first phase of the project focus was on developing local language standards and technology across seven Asian countries. Phase II of PAN Localization project is focusing on digital literacy of end-users using the localized technology for communication and to produce local language content. The "Conference on Localized ICT Development and Dissemination across Asia" as its name implies was a major step towards further development and dissemination of localized ICT to end users.

The training was organized through PAN Localization project with collaboration of the following organizations:
 

• National Authority for Science and Technology (NAST), Laos

• Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP), National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES) , Pakistan