Rubber Duck
4th January 2006, 11:33 AM
http://www.indictrans.org/
GOAL: Against Digital Divide.
The goal of the team of Indictrans is to help in the bridging of the digital divide. We wish to reach the gains of information technology to 98% of the people who will not be comfortable in English.
The well trodden path to reach the people is education. We therefore wish to be able to bring world class educational resources to the schools. We believe the vernacular schools, which are getting equipped with computers should be our priority. However we wish to equip them with software resources, documentation, manuals and even support. We take one of our points of departure as Freeduc CD(from www.ofset.org ) which is now to be sponsored by no less than UNESCO. Now we wish to make these resources available in indian languages.
We believe that we have to start with operating system localisation. But our perspective is not restricted to just that. We wish to cover application development,customisation, localisation as well as prosyletise and support usage.
We wish to do this by inviting people from all walks of life to collaborate with us.We wish to provide collaboration tools on our website. We shall also enable collaboration through paper and snail-mail or any other hybrid approach. With minimum resources and depending less on money and more on spirit( love for people and love for language), we wish to trigger a resurrection in education.
Along with education, we expect small office and home users to also use computers widely. We are sure that such a penetration of computers will hinge on availability of computers in indian languages.
Parallelly, we also aim at taking all these to the villages and smaller towns. We hope to gain support from hardware manufacturers and philanthropists as also language lovers and development enthusiasts. Lastly, we expect the government agencies to recognise the efforts and provide support.
Effectively we wish to carry GNU philosophy to its practical conclusion of true community building. This will effectively result in bridging the digital divide between digital have's and digital have-not's. Hope you will add yourself to this mission.
GOAL: Against Digital Divide.
The goal of the team of Indictrans is to help in the bridging of the digital divide. We wish to reach the gains of information technology to 98% of the people who will not be comfortable in English.
The well trodden path to reach the people is education. We therefore wish to be able to bring world class educational resources to the schools. We believe the vernacular schools, which are getting equipped with computers should be our priority. However we wish to equip them with software resources, documentation, manuals and even support. We take one of our points of departure as Freeduc CD(from www.ofset.org ) which is now to be sponsored by no less than UNESCO. Now we wish to make these resources available in indian languages.
We believe that we have to start with operating system localisation. But our perspective is not restricted to just that. We wish to cover application development,customisation, localisation as well as prosyletise and support usage.
We wish to do this by inviting people from all walks of life to collaborate with us.We wish to provide collaboration tools on our website. We shall also enable collaboration through paper and snail-mail or any other hybrid approach. With minimum resources and depending less on money and more on spirit( love for people and love for language), we wish to trigger a resurrection in education.
Along with education, we expect small office and home users to also use computers widely. We are sure that such a penetration of computers will hinge on availability of computers in indian languages.
Parallelly, we also aim at taking all these to the villages and smaller towns. We hope to gain support from hardware manufacturers and philanthropists as also language lovers and development enthusiasts. Lastly, we expect the government agencies to recognise the efforts and provide support.
Effectively we wish to carry GNU philosophy to its practical conclusion of true community building. This will effectively result in bridging the digital divide between digital have's and digital have-not's. Hope you will add yourself to this mission.