E-gov initiative hits language barrier
The country’s e-government initiative faces a language barrier. Experts have not been able to establish an interface between the English and local language softwares.
By Niranjan Bharati, TNN |
NEW DELHI: The country’s e-government initiative faces a language barrier. Experts have not been able to establish an interface between the English and local language softwares.
The centre had made softwares in 15 languages available for the effective implementation of the e-governance programmes. It is in the process of introducing the packages in remaining seven official languages; Kashmiri, Maithili, Manipuri, Sindhi, Bodo, Dogri and Santhali in the next few months.
In the process of implementation, it is found that the softwares are not responding properly while being converted from English to a different language. “The language softwares should enable data transfer from one language to another with 100% accuracy — in the absence of that there may be misrepresentation or scrambling of data,” an official in the IT ministry said.
“While interoperatibility is coming out as the major constraint, other problems include unavailability of proper keyboards and lack of lexical resources for the concerned language,” he added. Taking note of the problem, the government has asked the concerned department to bridge the loopholes in consultation with the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and the Centre for Development of Advance Computing (C-DAC).
The centre had made softwares in 15 languages available for the effective implementation of the e-governance programmes. It is in the process of introducing the packages in remaining seven official languages; Kashmiri, Maithili, Manipuri, Sindhi, Bodo, Dogri and Santhali in the next few months.
In the process of implementation, it is found that the softwares are not responding properly while being converted from English to a different language. “The language softwares should enable data transfer from one language to another with 100% accuracy — in the absence of that there may be misrepresentation or scrambling of data,” an official in the IT ministry said.
“While interoperatibility is coming out as the major constraint, other problems include unavailability of proper keyboards and lack of lexical resources for the concerned language,” he added. Taking note of the problem, the government has asked the concerned department to bridge the loopholes in consultation with the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and the Centre for Development of Advance Computing (C-DAC).
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