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

[Udaya Narayana Singh]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

If it is not impossible under the ICANN provisions, we could surely agree
to accept someone like Dr Ajay Data from the IAMAI as the Co-Chair of NBGP
to accelerate the task at hand. However, if it is not too odd, may we also
have Mahesh Kulkarni-ji on the board as Co-Chair - requesting him to take
greater interest in pushing this work. Would of course wait for Samiran and
Sarmad to react and take appropriate steps.

Warm regards,

Udaya Narayana Singh
9830132234
9434050218

*Udaya Narayana Singh *
Address: B1 & C1, Dakshinayan, Abanpally, Santiniketan 731235 (WB)
Formerly Professor, Rabindra Bhavana, Visva-Bharati (University)
Former Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore
Cell: 94340-50218 & 98301-32234
Home-page www.udayanarayana.com

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Chitrita <chitrita at iamai.in> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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 Panel’s
> 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 “80% done”) 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
>
>
>
> 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 Panel’s 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
> <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 ICANN’s 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
> ·         Participants’ 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
>
>
> *Position*
> *Name*
> *Organization*
> *Country*
> *Language Expertise*
>
> *Chair*
> Udaya Narayana Singh Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal India Bengali,
> Maithili,Hindi, English
>
> Member
> Anupam Agrawal Tata Consultancy Service India Hindi, Bengali
> Member Akshat S. Joshi C-DAC India Hindi, Marathi
> Member Abhijit Dutta Wikimedia India Bengali, Hindi
> Member Mahesh D. Kulkarni C-DAC India Marathi, Hindi
> Member Neha Gupta C-DAC India Hindi
> Member Nishit Jain C-DAC India Hindi
> Member Prabhakar Pandey C-DAC India Hindi
> Member Raiomond Doctor NLP Consultant India English, Hindi, Marathi,
> Gujarati
> Member N. DeivaSundaram NDS Lingsoft Solutions Pvt Ltd India Tamil
> Member Shantaram S. Warde Walawalikar Independent Researcher India Konkani
> Member Bal Krishna Bal Kathmandu University Nepal Nepali
> Member Ganesh Murmu Ranchi University India Santali
> Member Balaram Prasain Tribhuvan University Nepal Nepali
> Member Rajib Chakraborty Society for Natural Language Technology Research
> India Bangla (Bengali)
> Member Gurpreet Singh Lehal Punjabi University Patiala India Panjabi
> Member Saroja Bhate University of Pune India Sanskrit
> Member Shambhu Kumar Singh National Translation Misson, Mysore India
> Maithili
> Member SwarnaPrabha Chainary Guwahati University India Bodo
> Member Ghanashyam Nepal Benares Hindu University& University of North
> Bengal India Nepali
> Member Kalyan Vasudeo Kale Formerly affiliated with University of Pune
> India Marathi
> Member Shashi Pathania P.G.D. of Dogri, University of Jammu India Dogri
> Member
> Santhosh Thottingal
> Wikimedia foundation India Malayalam, Sourashtra, Tamil
> Member
> Uma Maheshwar G
> CALTS, Univ. of Hyderabad India Telugu
> Member
> Girish Chandra Mishra
> Language Technology Centre, Ravenshaw University
> India Odia
> Member
> K. C. Tikayat ray
> Odia Bhasa Pratisthan India Odia
> Member DEBAJIT SHARMA Anundoram Borooah Institute of Language Art and
> Culture India Assamese
> Member BASANTA KUMAR PANDA Regional Institute of Education (NCERT) India
> Odia
> Member Arvind Bhandari Gujarat University India Gujarati
> Member Harish Chowdhary NIXI India Hindi
> Member Ajay Data DATAINFOSYS India Hindi, others
> Member
> Chitrita Chatterjee
> Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) India Multiple languages
> represented by members of IAMAI
> Member U.B. Pavanaja http://vishvakannada.com/ India Kannada
> *Contact and Additional Information*
>
>
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