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Kathmandu Monday November 05, 2001 Kartik 20, 2058.
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15th AFSIT to be held in Nepal
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Nov 4 - The 15th Asian Forum for the
Standardization of Information Technology (15th AFSIT) is being held in Nepal from
November 7, which will be preceded by a seminar on Enhancement of International
Standardization Activities in Asia Pacific being held from Monday.
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is scheduled to inaugurate
the international Information Technology (IT) conference which will be participated in by
42 foreign IT experts of 18 Asian countries and 12 IT experts from Nepal.
The basic objective of the international conference is to set
an international standard of computerization and other IT products so that it would help
accelerate the growth of IT industry in the Asian nations.
Takayuki K Sato, Chief Researcher at the Centre of the
International Cooperation for Computerization (CICC), Japan, speaking at a pre-conference
press meet here today said that standardization of different computerized languages would
help in better communication among various countries.
He also urged all the countries to make their requirements
clear laying emphasis on the standardization of their respective computerized language.
Allen Bailochan Tuladhar, CEO of Unlimited, an IT company and
coordinator of the Committee for Standardization of Nepali in Computers, expressed the
views that for the proper growth of IT, local languages should be computerized and they
should be readable in any computer of any part of the globe.
Unless, the Nepali language’s computerization is not
standard, the penetration of computer and expansion of internet and e-mail services would
not grow at a desired level especially in the context of Nepal where only two per cent of
the 23 million population understand English.
Rajiv Subba, General Secretary of Computer Association of
Nepal (CAN) informed the pressmen that a group of IT experts is working on developing
computer key board with Devnagari script (Nepali key board) and standardizing Nepali font
for facilitating the larger segment of the population.
In a two-day seminar on Enhancement of the International
Standardization Activities in Asia Pacific would basically focus on training experts in
standardizing computerization of their respective local languages.
Hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Committee
for Standardization of Nepali in Computers, CAN and CICC, the international IT event is
being organized by Unlimited and many other agencies have supported the conference.
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