Lekhika 2007 - Computing For The Masses, In Their Language
In the effort to spread computer literacy to the masses in India who do not know English, comes ‘Lekhika 2007’ - a software application, developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) under India’s IT Ministry, and Israel’s FTK Technologies, which covers ten scripts and 3000 characters and supports Windows, MAC and Linux.
Being an intuitive software, it predicts the next alphabet or ‘matra’ making it simple for the user even if he happens to be fairly new to computers.
“Due to the fact that English literacy in India is a mere 10%, such a solution will cater to the remaining 90% population and can prove to be an effective tool in driving IT literacy programmes in India,” according to Harel Cohen, CEO of FTK Technologies.
The software costing between Rs2,500 and Rs3,000 currently supports Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu and Punjabi, but by 2009 is expected to include all the officially recognised Indian languages.
Here is a video on the application, while you can download a demo here.
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