Beginning of a new ERA in Local Content Creation and Dissemination-
India gets Bharat from (NIXI)- .IN Registry launches the .Bharat domain name (.भारत written in Devanagari script)
In less than an hour from now the Hon. Minister
for Communications and Information Technology, and Minister for Law and Justice, Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad will set us on a path towards rapidly moving closer to the idea of "Digital India", as proposed by the Prime Minister who likes to be in charge and lead from the front. Amongst other imperatives to translate this idea into actuality we need to work on issues of access and drivers of internet adoption and proliferation. This is a conversation worth having and not one to which the governments come to the table easy. Governance and now ungovernance of the Internet is what the world is pondering over with grave concern.
This launch will unveil "the portal containing a few .भारत based popular domain names by Hon’ble MCIT by cutting the ribbon electronically through the computer mouse."
Why should we care:
Since the same .भारत ccTLD is shared by other Indian languages such as Boro, Dogri, Konkani, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali and Sindhi-Devanagari, the end user can now get domain names in these languages apart from Hindi. The sunrise period for which will commence from 15th August,2014.
And soon, in the coming months similar launches in regional languages such as Tamil, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu, Telugu and Bangala will follow.
NIXI short for the National Internet Exchange of India, has been spearheading the goal of multilingual Internet and to this end NIXI has collaborated with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) in setting up of an expert team on Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs).With the aim to enhance the reach and relevance of Internet for remote and far flung villages, further bridging the digital divide.
A big shout out to Dr. Govind the CEO of NIXI, for leading significant initiatives and because he gets it. Here's a story that's worth sharing.
For Internet and Freedom- Less Government more governance. And now ungovernance , perhaps.
Subi Chaturvedi
Asstt. Prof. LSR (Journalism)
Member MAG-UN -IGF (Media & Civil Society)
Member MAG India IGF (Internet Governance Forum)
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