In a large, geographically dispersed, demographic multilingual country like India, the
common thread in implementing and achieving these basic objectives of governance has been the
development and adoption of language computing tools and methodologies. The government
officials in various provinces, the non-government functionaries across the country and the people,
mostly use their own language in day to day work, be it in government administration at various
levels, in business, in profession, in services or in school education. Thus, if the fruits of
information technology revolution have to spread to all these participating members, in
government and public, it is best done through the use of computers in their own languages.
The Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has made pioneering
contributions in developing Indian language tools with natural language processing, and in
evolving script and font standards through its GIST technology, to enable and spread use of
computers in various languages. It accordingly took up the initiative of developing important
e-governance solutions in Indian languages, which impact government and the citizens both. This
initiative started in 1997 and has grown to a significant extent by the end of 2001.
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