New Delhi: IIT Gandhinagar organised a pre-event for the India Internet Governance Forum (IIGF) 2022 on December 2, 2022. Subject matter experts spoke at the session about issues of internet governance, the promise of a multilingual internet, and the benefits and drawbacks of Universal Acceptance (UA).
At IIGF 2022 at IIT Gandhinagar, Mahesh Kulkarni, Founder and CTO of Evaris Systems LLP, spoke on "Universal Acceptance - A Fundamental Requirement for Multilingual Internet," while Ajay Data, founder and CEO of Data Ingenious Global Limited, discussed "Universal Acceptance and its Coverage."
Additionally, Professor Rajat Moona, Director of the IITGN and a Computer Scientist, spoke on the topic of "Empowering Local Communities through Internet and Vernacular Language" and how a multilingual internet may help a nation and local community thrive in a variety of ways.
In an anecdote, Rajat Moona remarked that a Hariyanvi taxi driver could quickly locate map-based navigation using voice-activated search since Indian languages are primarily phonetic and not graphical; the majority of them are written in the same manner as they are spoken.
He informed that with increased use of smartphones, people have realised the strength of spoken words and this can be multiplied to empower people in using the internet in their languages".
It can open up a plethora of possibilities for people and prove to be a powerful mechanism to do things, and business online in this way. Even vegetable sellers, autorickshaw drivers, small shop owners etc. can benefit from this inclusive network, he added
Professor Moona concluded, “The current challenges can be solved with certain kinds of standardisations, but what empowerment and confidence a person and our community can gain might be one of the most enabling factors of multilingual internet. I wish Indian language-based content will become much more popular in future for the empowerment of people.”
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