Kannur: The innovative project of ‘Malayalam Computing scheme’ would turn the conventional equations of the wirefree world on its head by enabling the common man to use Internet facility in his mother tongue.
The Chief Minister while inaugurating the project expressed hope that around 50 lakh people in Kerala would benefit from Malayalam computing in the next three years. The brainchild of Kerala IT Mission and Akshaya, this innovative scheme would be propagated through the Akshaya centres.
This would bridge the digital barrier and would help people across the state to operate computers in their mother tongue. The government website www.malayalam.kerala.gov.in has all the information on the use of Malayalam in computers. With this system users can send mails or chat in Malayalam without the need to use English ever. Transcending the language barrier, this is expected to bridge the digital-divide, existing between the city bred and the rural folks and neo e-literates. The operating systems like windows XP and Linux have inbuilt facility for this and no special software is required to enable the local language facility in the computers making it easy to set up and operate.
This would empower the common people to easily lodge their complaints and grievances through e-mail as all the police stations in the State would also be computerized within the next one year. The ultimate objective of this project would be to set up a Malayalam web portal in every panchayat in the State, which would popularize internet among the masses by taking it to every door step. It is heartening to note that Kerala is bolstering its position of being a fully literate State by adopting the latest technologies to stay in tune with the changing times.
pls add malayalam internet facility
please add malayalam