Best Practices for”Internationalization of E-Governance Applications for India”
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Shri Shankar Aggarwal, Additional Secretary(E-Gov)
During release function of the Best Practices for”Internationalization of E-Governance Applications for India”
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Shri Shankar Aggarwal, Additional Secretary(E-Gov)
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Mr. J. Alan Bird,
Buisness Development Leader,W3C
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Ms.Swaran lata
Country manager ,W3C India
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Dr. Somnath Chandra,
Deputy Country Manager, W3C India
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Participants during release function
- The release function of the Best Practices for”Internationalization of E-Governance Applications for India” was held on 12 September 2011.
- The Following were present:
1. Shri Shankar Aggarwal, Additional Secretary(E-Gov)
2. Mr. J. Alan Bird,Buisness Development Leader,W3C
3. Ms. Swaran Lata, Country Manager W3C India
- The Best Practices were released by Shri Shankar Aggarwal, Additional Secretary (E-Gov).
- Dr. Somnath Chandra, Deputy Country Manager, W3C India, welcomed the dignitaries and audience.
- Inaugural Keynotes:
- Shri Shankar Aggarwal, Additional Secretary (E-Gov) :
- “I congratulate this laudable W3C India’s Initiative in developing a complete set of guidelines encompassing the core level, architecture and application layers in collaboration with Localization experts and academia. This may be the base guideline document for implementation / developing internationalized e-governance solution in Indian languages.”
- Message from Shri N. Ravi Shanker - AS & GC (Language Computing Group), DIT
- “Industry and users would find these guidelines a very useful and comprehensive. Implementation of these guidelines in various National and State level E-Governance Mission mode programme would be beneficial to make these services accessible seamlessly across platforms and devices.”
- Mr. J. Alan Bird, Buisness Development Leader, W3C
- “W3C's E-Government Activity currently offers guidelines focused on helping governments to publish data in open, standards-based formats so that information can be more easily accessed on the Web. The guidelines which are meant to be comprehensive is a big step in completing the tool set for this task”
- Ms. Swaran Lata, Country Manager W3C India
- “W3C India in association with W3C would continue its Endeavour in collaboration with all stakeholders ranging from policy makers, industry and users to come out with such standards and guidelines, which conforms to the state of the art and future web technology. These Best Practices help E-Governance Applications Developers to make their applications Indianized and easily accessed by Indian citizen in their languages.”
- Contribution from Mr. Abhijit Dutta
- Indianization of E-Governance is the primary key to reach E-Governance application all over India, up to village level. Indianization is the same from localization perspective as internationalization as global perspective. The executive summary provided with the Best Practices gives a holistic perspective about Indianization of E-Governance.