[smc-discuss] Fwd: [Ilugc] Call for incentives to those taking up Tamil computing projects

[Santhosh Thottingal]

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From: Arun Kumar <open.source at gmx.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 6:03 PM
Subject: [Ilugc] Call for incentives to those taking up Tamil computing projects
To: ilugc at ae.iitm.ac.in


for those who are interested in language computing:

The State government should provide incentives to those who carry out
projects in Tamil computing, Chairman of the Board of Governors of
IIT-Kanpur and local organising committee of the Tamil Internet
Conference (TIC) 2010 M. Anandakrishnan said on Saturday.

About one lakh projects were taken up in colleges in the State every
year. However, only a handful of them pertained to Tamil computing, he
told a function to mark the distribution of prizes to students who won
contests organised as part of the TIC.

Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin gave away the prizes to the
State-level winners and also released a special souvenir that had 130
articles. Emphasising that greater support should be given to promote
the use of Tamil computing, he said that the State government should
declare a policy that in the computers purchased for government
departments, schools and colleges, the opening screen should be in
Tamil when booted.

In an effort to sustain the interest of children in Tamil computing,
they should be encouraged to use computers for activity-based
learning. For instance, students could collect data and information
related to the local economy, history and social issues and feed these
in Tamil in the computer and also sort the information in Tamil. The
secretariat for Tamil computing should be located with that of
classical Tamil, he added.

About 8,000 school students and nearly 3,800 college students
participated in the competitions. Dr. Anandakrishnan said prizes would
be given away to district-level winners soon.

Among those present were Ministers for Higher Education, School
Education and Information Technology, K. Ponmudy, Thangam Thennarasu
and Poongothai Aladi Aruna, Chief Secretary K.S. Sripathi and
Principal Secretaries for Higher Education and IT K. Ganesan and
P.W.C. Davidar.

(from http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/article487561.ece)
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