Hats of to Ms. Swaran Lata madam (Head TDIL Prog.,DIT & Country Manager, W3C India Office) the way she handled two day conference by listening everyone and assuring action from W3C India Office and from TDIL. There were presentations on research topic's.
The main research topics were
1) Web Accessibility for Disable (Dr. Mohan Dewan made a good point saying able vs disable. He said "disable" is not the good word it should be "differently able", Ms. Shilpi Kapoor made to attention on there are many people who need's improvement from accessibility perspective example given like many people have specs, also there are large number of people can't here properly in some extent. etc.)
2) Web For mobile is also one, and there is limitation on screen resolution when accessing web. Idea of having different web sites as per device is really bad. Also there was suggestion i.e. it will be good if there some kind of mechanism so that server will understand clients resolution/device type and deliver web site in that form to client.
3) WAV: Voice Access to Web Information for Masses , Dr. Om Deshmukh, IBM India. suggested there are lots of challenges in this area. and need some standardization.
I presented on need for standardization and issues related to Unicode in conference.
Standardization: Web should be render same, no matter what browser of what Operating System. It need some standard guideline from language and script perspective.
And need for free and opensource basic components for 22 Official Indian Languages, and TDIL or W3C should start a portal for same, it should be done in open source way. May be we can add basic components for M$ and Apple Mac as well there.
Since Inaugural Session took long time in first days as ministers were late due to some other activity. Technical Session got a very minimum time. I was expected 20 min. for my session but got only 12-13 min. So could not able to give demo. of UTRRS and Unicode Issues. But after presentation got some good comments from audience so i think my message got delivered well in small time.
Really chair person's had a hard time to finish all speaker's talk within a given specific time ;)
I think there will be now different meeting/discussion from W3C India office as per topic and interested people, as W3C involves in lot of different things.
from Left Me, Mr Klaus Birkenbihl (W3C Offices Head), Dr. Somnath Chandra (Scientist-D)
from Right Dr. Phil Archer (W3C Mobile Lead), Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe (CEO W3C), Dr. Richard Ishida (W3C Internationalization Head), Ms. Swaran Lata madam
2 comments:
Yes, the W3C India conf. was great success and hope it doesn't go the way the 'some' government initiatives go. If W3C India stays active and focuses on the said areas- Language and Mobiles- India will soon be a great information-success example. We are at the stage where scaling the digital-initiative, which has reached to urban masses now, should be a main concern so as to achieve the inclusive growth results for the rural-masses.Looking at the mobile penetration, we can hope mobiles will do their part by being a hardware/infrastructure for information revolution in the form of Indian-Language web!
And Pravin, you forgot to mention credentials for this photo ;) to me!
yeah, prakash
thanks for same :)
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