When Dr.Santosh Babu (IAS), Managing Director of ELCOT invited me to present in this
year CETIT Conference, I had not known much about the event. Then searching on the
Internet, I learned that “CETIT
2010 is the second year of the conference-***-exhibition on e-Governance organized
by FICCI in association with ELCOT.
CeTIT claims to provide an opportunity to take stock of the practice and the promise
of digital technologies on e-Governance”. This certainly sounded interesting, so here
I am.
This year program happened yesterday and today in Chennai Trade Centre. I presented
on the topic of “Relevance of Unicode
to e-Governance”, this was part of the session on “Back Office” Chaired by Prof.M.Anandakrishnan (Chairman,
IIT Kanpur).
In my brief talk (~10 Mins) I was keen that I didn't confuse audience with too much
engineering detail on Encoding. At the same time I wanted to demystify Unicode and
what it is, importance of a single uniform encoding, where we are in terms of acceptance
of Unicode by various State Governments & Govt. of India. That I think I achieved.
(Download
the presentation as a PDF from here, the PowerPoint
version can be got from Docs.com)
My earlier presentation on UNICODE
for Tamil can be seen here.
Read the complete post at http://venkatarangan.com/blog/2010/07/28/RelevanceOfUnicodeToEGovernance.aspx