[Neobrahmigp] INVITATION TO ATTEND ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING

Mon Mar 27 05:06:19 UTC 2017

Dear All,

On behalf of IAMAI, I am happy to propose the name of Dr Ajay Data as one of
the co-chairs for this committee.

I await response regarding the 2nd nomination. Will revert on that shortly.

Dr Data brings with him a huge repository of domain knowledge and expertise
in the field, apart from the passion to drive the NBGP agenda to achieve
desired results, I hope his nomination finds acceptance within the panel.

Sincere regards,

Chitrita

-- 
Chitrita Chatterjee
Associate Vice President
Internet & Mobile Association of India
#28, First Floor
Okhla Industrial estate; Phase III
New Delhi-1100020 [India]
mob: +91 98104 77552;
Landline: 011-41766666
website: www.iamai.in
blog: http://awanderingaesthete.blogspot.com

From:  Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil at yahoo.com>
Reply-To:  Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil at yahoo.com>
Date:  Friday, 24 March 2017 4:12 pm
To:  Administrator <chitrita at iamai.in>, Mahesh Kulkarni <mdk at cdac.in>,
Akshat Joshi <akshatj at cdac.in>, Neha Gupta <nehag at cdac.in>, Doc
<raymond.doctor at gmail.com>, "Maheshdkulkarni at gmail Com"
<maheshdkulkarni at gmail.com>, "NeobrahmiGP at icann.org" <NeobrahmiGP at icann.org>
Subject:  Re: [Neobrahmigp] INVITATION TO ATTEND ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION
PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING

Dear Chitrita,

The report will be very useful in my work - also for my own understanding of
the issues. We will wait for your suggestion on the Co-Chair issue. Regards,

Professor Udaya Narayana Singh
Chair-Professor & Head, ACLS
Amity Centre for Linguistic Studies (ACLS)
Amity University Haryana, Gurgaon
Pachgaon, Manesar PIN 122431
Cell: +91-98301-32234 & 94340-50218

Formerly, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan &
Former Director, Central Inst of Indian Languages (CIIL)
Home-page www.udayanarayana.com <http://www.udayanarayana.com/>

 On Friday, 24 March 2017 2:45 PM, Chitrita <chitrita at iamai.in> wrote:

Dear Professor Singh,

Thanks for sharing the minutes. As promised during the meeting, I am
attaching herewith a soft copy of the latest I-cube 2016 [Internet in
India-2016]

I do hope this will be of interest.

Regarding suggesting names for the Co-Chair, I will revert by tomorrow with
names/nomination.

warm regards,

Chitrita

-- 
Chitrita Chatterjee
Associate Vice President
Internet & Mobile Association of India
#28, First Floor
Okhla Industrial estate; Phase III
New Delhi-1100020 [India]
mob: +91 98104 77552;
Landline: 011-41766666
website: www.iamai.in
blog: http://awanderingaesthete.blogspot.com
<http://awanderingaesthete.blogspot.com/>

From:  Udaya Narayana Singh via Neobrahmigp <neobrahmigp at icann.org>
Reply-To:  Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil at yahoo.com>
Date:  Thursday, 9 March 2017 5:48 pm
To:  Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil at yahoo.com>, Mahesh Kulkarni
<mdk at cdac.in>, Akshat Joshi <akshatj at cdac.in>, Neha Gupta <nehag at cdac.in>,
Doc <raymond.doctor at gmail.com>, "Maheshdkulkarni at gmail Com"
<maheshdkulkarni at gmail.com>, "NeobrahmiGP at icann.org" <NeobrahmiGP at icann.org>
Subject:  Re: [Neobrahmigp] INVITATION TO ATTEND ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION
PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING

MINUTES OF THE NBGP INDUSTRY ONBOARD MEETING & ACTION PLAN

The half-a-day NBGP Meeting to discuss how industry, and especially members
of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) could actively and
effectively contribute to the Neo-Brahmi Generation Panel¹s work forward to
development of Label Generation Rules to support local language IDNs at the
top-level was held in Eros Hotel on 8th March 2017 10.30 AM onwards where
members and invitees attended the meeting in person as well as online or
from by remote telephonic participation.

Since the ICANN57 held in Hyderabad in November 2016, there has been
increased interest in Internationalized Domain Names and proliferation of
Indic content in India, and the NBGP was pleased to find four members of the
industry participating in person - beginning with Ms Chitrita Chatterji, the
President of IAMAI, Dr Ajay Data, Ms Sukriti Gupta of the Jagaran Digital
group and Vijayananda Prabhu of the Reverie, Bangalore. Hosting the meeting
were Samiran Gupta assisted by Gangesh Verma) and Sarmad Hussain, and there
were Akshat Joshi from C-DAC as well as Dr U.V. Pavanaja who joined online.
The meeting was chaired by Professor Udaya Narayana Singh.

The key outcomes were as follows:

1. Akshat Joshi (C-DAC) informed all that NBGP is almost ready with the
first-cut of the Devanagari LGR document which has been initially checked by
the Integration Panel members.  He would now do the following:

a.       Send a mail to the panel advising current status of work on
Devanagari and proposed next steps.
b.       share updated report (which is now ³80% done²) with the panel
members within seven days for their inputs and comments to take it to 95%
completion.
c. Soon after the initial reactions and comments, the Report will be sent
again to the Integration Panel as well as put in the public domains for
comments and criticisms.

2. It was also agreed that NBGP will have a Co-Chair, preferably from the
relevant Industry, in this case, from IAMAI to accelerate the task of the
panel.

3. It was also agreed to induct more members from the IAMAI - for which the
proposals would be received and acted upon. The would request an addition of
three new members to the panel, perhaps the following:
                                                            i.      Sukriti
Gupta from Jagran Digital
                                                            ii.      Someone
from Times Internet
                                                            iii.
Perrhaps Vijayananda from Reverie

4. IAMAI will internally discuss and return to the Panel Chair with their
suggestion on the Co-chair within the next seven days. Sarmad to help
on-board the co-chair if required.

5. When the four as above is done within the next week, the NBGP will call a
meeting over the next 15 days or so to discuss and plan next steps. ICANN:
Sarmad/IDN team to support meeting management for calls as required.

6. Once we are through with the Devanagari LGR, we can treat that as a
guiding document and start working on other scripts on similar lines.
However, it is not assumed that Devanagari case will be able to address all
the nuances that are there among all other Brahmi-based scripts. We will
definitely need to take up each script separately. But the Devanagari LGR
document should present a clear picture of the template to be followed.
Also, in this way, at least 11 languages using Devanagari would be onboard
using/testing/commenting on a part of what the NBGP has done.

7. We should also aim for regular online meetings of the panel to make
progress and involve the panel members.

The meeting ended with thanks to all.

Professor Udaya Narayana Singh
Chair, NBGP
Cell: +91-98301-32234 & 94340-50218
Formerly, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan &
Former Director, Central Inst of Indian Languages (CIIL)
Home-page www.udayanarayana.com <http://www.udayanarayana.com/>

 On Friday, 3 March 2017 10:16 AM, Udaya Narayana Singh <unsciil at yahoo.com>
wrote:

Dear Members,

I am pleased to share with you that since the ICANN57 meeting held in
Hyderabad in November 2016, there has been increased interest in
Internationalized Domain Names and proliferation of Indic content in India.
The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) hosted a session on
Proliferation of Indic Computing at ICANN57 which was well-attended by
members of government, industry, academia and civil society. Over the past
few months, we have seen growing interest by those in Indic computing, to
participate in the Neo Brahmi Generation Panel (NBGP). Apart from that, the
Government of India is very keen for the early development of Indic
computing resources, to facilitate greater penetration of Indic computing.

Therefore, with that in mind, ICANN is organizing a half-day session,
particularly for members of IAMAI on 8th March 2017, in New Delhi. The full
agenda for this meeting follows below. NBGP members are invited to a meeting
with IAMAI to discuss how industry can actively and effectively contribute
to NBGP in taking the Generation Panel¹s work forward to develop the
Neo-Brahmi Label Generation Rules to support local language IDNs at the
top-level. You may like to join this meeting in person, if deputed by your
institution or project/programme, or alternatively, by remote telephonic
participation. 

I request those who wish to join - either in person or by phone - to please
send a line of confirmation by 6th March to Mr Samiran Gupta, Head,
ICANN-India at  : +91 99902 18198, E-mail: samiran.gupta at icann. org
<mailto:samiran.gupta at icann.org>    Skype: samiran.gupta.icann.

For those joining by phone, dial-in details will be provided subsequently.
Please note the agenda:

_____

ICANN NEO BRAHMI GENERATION PANEL INDUSTRY ONBOARDING MEETING
LUTYENS BALLROOM, EROS HOTEL, NEW DELHI, INDIA

AGENDA
8th March, 2017
10:00  13:30 Hrs
 TIME
  SUBJECT
  LEAD

 10:00  10:30 
  Refreshments

 10:30  10:40
  Welcome and Introductions; Introductions of remote participants

  Samiran Gupta

 10:40  10:50
  Welcome address by Chair, NBGP

  Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh

 10:50  11:00
  Introduction to IAMAI
  IAMAI

 11:00  11:25
  Introduction to ICANN¹s IDN TLD program
 ·         Objective of IDN TLD Program
 ·         The role of a GPs
 ·         Role of community members
 ·         Current state of progress of different GPs
 ·         Scope of the NBGP

  Sarmad Hussain

 11:25  11:45
  Update on NBGP progress and next steps
  Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh Akshat Joshi, C-DAC

 11:45  12:00
  Tea/coffee break

 12:00  13:30
  ·         Participants¹ discussion on role of industry and business
community in the NBGP
 ·         Conclusion and call to action

  All participants

 13:30
  Lunch at Blooms Restaurant

 With best wishes,

Professor Udaya Narayana Singh
Chair, Neo-Brahmi Panel (NBGP), ICANN
Cell: +91-98301-32234 & 94340-50218

Home-page www.udayanarayana.com <http://www.udayanarayana.com/>

Position
Name
Organization
Country
Language Expertise
Chair
Udaya Narayana SinghVisva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West BengalIndiaBengali,
Maithili,Hindi, English
Member
Anupam AgrawalTata Consultancy ServiceIndiaHindi, Bengali
MemberAkshat S. JoshiC-DACIndiaHindi, Marathi
MemberAbhijit DuttaWikimediaIndiaBengali, Hindi
MemberMahesh D. KulkarniC-DACIndiaMarathi, Hindi
MemberNeha GuptaC-DACIndiaHindi
MemberNishit JainC-DACIndiaHindi
MemberPrabhakar PandeyC-DACIndiaHindi
MemberRaiomond DoctorNLP ConsultantIndiaEnglish, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
MemberN. DeivaSundaramNDS Lingsoft Solutions Pvt LtdIndiaTamil
MemberShantaram S. Warde WalawalikarIndependent ResearcherIndiaKonkani
MemberBal Krishna BalKathmandu UniversityNepalNepali
MemberGanesh MurmuRanchi UniversityIndiaSantali
MemberBalaram PrasainTribhuvan UniversityNepalNepali
MemberRajib ChakrabortySociety for Natural Language Technology
ResearchIndiaBangla (Bengali)
MemberGurpreet Singh LehalPunjabi University PatialaIndiaPanjabi
MemberSaroja BhateUniversity of PuneIndiaSanskrit
MemberShambhu Kumar SinghNational Translation Misson, MysoreIndiaMaithili
MemberSwarnaPrabha ChainaryGuwahati UniversityIndiaBodo
MemberGhanashyam NepalBenares Hindu University& University of North
BengalIndiaNepali
MemberKalyan Vasudeo KaleFormerly affiliated with University of
PuneIndiaMarathi
MemberShashi PathaniaP.G.D. of Dogri, University of JammuIndiaDogri
MemberSanthosh Thottingal
Wikimedia foundationIndiaMalayalam, Sourashtra, Tamil
MemberUma Maheshwar G
CALTS, Univ. of HyderabadIndiaTelugu
MemberGirish Chandra Mishra
Language Technology Centre, Ravenshaw University
IndiaOdia
MemberK. C. Tikayat ray
Odia Bhasa PratisthanIndiaOdia
MemberDEBAJIT SHARMAAnundoram Borooah Institute of Language Art and
CultureIndiaAssamese
MemberBASANTA KUMAR PANDARegional Institute of Education (NCERT)IndiaOdia
MemberArvind BhandariGujarat UniversityIndiaGujarati
MemberHarish ChowdharyNIXIIndiaHindi
MemberAjay DataDATAINFOSYSIndiaHindi, others
MemberChitrita Chatterjee
Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)IndiaMultiple languages
represented by members of IAMAI
MemberU.B. Pavanajahttp://vishvakannada.com/IndiaKannada
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