Where computers are truly 'personal'
23 years, 2 months ago

Where computers are truly 'personal'

The Hindu  

India's expertise in Information Technology has quietly matured enough to create products that suit the needs of its people, something that international 'shrink wrapped' solutions can never hope to do. It is possibly the first hand-held computer to work off three standard AAA-sized penlight cells and to forsake proprietary, "shrink wrapped" software such as Windows in favour of the free and "open" Linux. A long tradition of radical planning has given to Kerala's IT efforts a "people-oriented" thrust that may yet help the State, a late starter, to catch up its neighbours in harnessing technology for better governance. It is home to the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, the government-funded agency that pioneered Indian language computing aids such as the popular multilingual word processor, "Leap". On December 2, 2000, over one lakh people stepped into neighbourhood centres of India's leading computer trainer, NIIT, to make use of a special computer literacy drive held to mark "World Computer Literacy Day".

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