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Wanted: Local Content on Internet

Techtree News Staff, Jan 20, 2007 1000 hrs IST

The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) held a two days event, "The India Digital Summit 2007" at New Delhi.

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The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) held a two days event, "The India Digital Summit 2007" at New Delhi.

At the summit, Communications and Information Technology Minister, Dayanidhi Maran, said that Internet, like television or newspapers, should have more local content for better penetration and adoption by the masses.

Maran further said, "If we look at the case of television in India, the real adoption and penetration came only when the content became local. Internet being an interactive medium gives us great opportunity to find out what the customer wants."

The Communication and Information Technology Ministry said that it will soon launch internationalised domain names (IDN) in Indian languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, and others, enabling local language domain names at the secondary level.

In addition, Maran also revealed that in order to increase Internet speeds for Indian consumers, BSNL, MTNL, and STPI are working together on hosting servers in the country, which is expected to be done within three to four months.

However, they are still trying to ensure that the cost of hosting a server in India should be cheaper than hosting it in the US. They believe that Internet traffic generated within the country remains here, thus freeing international bandwidth in the process.

Explaining further, Maran said that with growth rate of the Web site hosting market predicted at 0.62 percent, the target that he's set for India is to see that .in websites with servers based within the country take their positions in the top 10 Web hosting sites.

Reportedly, India is one of the top six Internet using nations in the world, and the high double digit annual growth ensures an increasing number of new users coming on board every year.

Maran said that his vision of "Digital India" was an India connected with a network of communication technologies spanning optics fibre and wireless, interacting in all 22 languages using server-based, language machine translation, and cross lingual information access facilities.

Apart from this, other 2007 targets include broadband coverage for all secondary and higher secondary schools, broadband coverage for all public health care centres, and for all gram panchayats.

USER COMMENTS

Very good

by Gajmp, Chennai, on Jul 27, 2008 11:53 AM, Report abuse Reply

thanku

by ankur raj gogoi, guwahati, on Jan 21, 2007 05:42 PM, Report abuse Reply

Thats a real gem of idea. Am sure we will see a lot of changes on the internet in 2007. http://www.my.ws/changemylife

by Smita, Gurgaon, on Jan 21, 2007 03:06 PM, Report abuse Reply

people understand only one language---cheap-cheaper-cheapest-----make inet access cheap n focus on wimax

by dilip, bangalore, on Jan 21, 2007 02:59 AM, Report abuse Reply

The suggestions of Hon.Minister Mr.MARAN is highly laudable because it will not only be cheaper for customers and also servicing problems can be very efficient. I really apreciate his suggestions. JK

by J KOTHANDARAMAN, DEOMBIVLI (WEST).MUMBAI, on Jan 20, 2007 09:23 PM, Report abuse Reply

local content and local hosting are good things, but they have to improve their infrastructure and give some good speeds without any limits to end users at reasonable price..

by !!!, !, on Jan 20, 2007 08:57 PM, Report abuse Reply

@anand - u must be kiddin... @maran - Please stop ur nonsense, u sed u'll provide speed upgrades to all Dataone users but that excluded the "Unlimited 900" users. Hell we are not even getting 180kbps! As for having servers in INDIA, cmon those guys at BSNL cant even troubleshoot a simple internet problem, expect them to handle all the downtimes in their servers??? Those guys dont even have the right ppl or the right infrastructure...Do you expect them to cool the servers using ur normal fan??? To everyone - Dont listen to that politician, he keeps blurting crap without even checking if it was technically feasible...Example as in the case of speed upgrades for dataone.. Whatever it is, by the time its implemented the next elections wud've come n d government wud change, which in turn will drop the whole plan!

by Ajay, Bangalore, on Jan 20, 2007 07:15 PM, Report abuse Reply

Bringing Broadband to rural areas is being in talk for many number of years. I'm from rural india and no sign of that here so far. Please come to reality.

by Kannaiyan, Kasangadu, Pattukottai, on Jan 20, 2007 05:35 PM, Report abuse Reply

hope these sayings come 2 reality

by Ayshwarya, chennai, on Jan 20, 2007 05:27 PM, Report abuse Reply

digital map for digital India is essentialis needed.on demand access to bb is needed.

by atanu, Delhi, on Jan 20, 2007 12:51 PM, Report abuse Reply

what is the meaning of the grammer head lines in newspaper.

by tarun, hisar, on Jan 20, 2007 10:14 AM, Report abuse Reply

It is indeed necessary to increase bandwith and speed of internet sooner. That will help spread of education in not omly students but grown ups. In last few years our govt has done lot of progress in communications should expedite the procees eliminating all the hurdles for the progrees of the nation and its people at all levels icluding regional. Bravo to Maran.

by vijay anja, Mumbai, on Jan 20, 2007 06:32 AM, Report abuse Reply

"Broad Band Coverage for all gram panchayats".Our pin code of the village is 622506.There are almost 100 applicants.Still priorites only to urban.It is only a stage talk.Too slow for implemntation.

by SUBRAMANIAN, Chennai, on Jan 20, 2007 05:09 AM, Report abuse Reply

Ask them to rename "India" to "BHARAT" first and then rename domain to .bh and then only create all this.

by Ananad, Mumbai, on Jan 19, 2007 07:35 PM, Report abuse Reply