Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Wednesday, Jul 31, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Wednesday, Jul 31, 2002 |
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Events Tamil Internet meet planned in California Prakash M. Swamy
NEW YORK, July 30 THE International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT) will hold its fifth Tamil Internet international conference and exhibition — Tamil Internet 2002 — at Foster City, San Francisco Bay Area, California from September 27 to 29. The event is being organised by INFITT in collaboration with the Centre for South Asia Studies and the Chair in Tamil Studies of the University of California, Berkeley. Tamil Internet 2002 is the fifth in the conference series, which began in 1997 at Singapore. Based on the theme `Bridging The Digital Divide', this meet will focus on technical, professional and business issues related to Tamil Internet and Tamil computing. The convention will consist of three components — technical conference, exhibition and community events, according to the organising committee Chairman of the conference, Mr Mani M. Manivannan. As part of this conference, the first-ever international competition organised by INFITT to promote Tamil content creation on the Internet by school children, is also being held. The competition will be in the form of an online project in which children from schools across the US, Canada, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Europe will make projects based on their images of Tamil.
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