[Indic-computing-users] [FYI] 620 million Indians are Waiting for IT - Dataquest article

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

Hi,
  Dataquest has an article on indian languages computing scene. Read
full article at
http://www.dqindia.com/content/top_stories/102110901.asp

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620 million Indians are Waiting for IT

Manjiri Kalghatgi

Saturday, November 09, 2002

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Over 62% of all Indians can?t use computers because they don?t know
English. And despite a 20-year headstart, the Indian-language software
industry remains less than a drop in the Rs 62,000-cr Indian IT
industry. Bogged down by lack of standardization, the industry has
been overshadowed by the success of software exports. But the
burgeoning e-governance vertical and growing compliance to Unicode
standards could well turn the fortunes of this industry.
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Karunakar

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