![]() ![]() Discusses the essential Information systems remaining to be developed in Malayalam like those on indigenous knowledge covering nattarivu, kattarivu, kadalrivu etc indigenous medicines like otttamooli, siddha, unani, ayurveda, visha chikitsa etc. Mary's College, Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Brennen College, Vimala College, State Central Library, etc. Govi to the digital systems developed by St. Covers also history of Information System development in Malayalam from the manual one Malayalam Granthasooji of Sri. The paper gives a birds eye view of Malayalam Language Technology development through DOS, ASCII, Windows and Unicode standards by C-DAC, CIRD, C-Dit, Rachana Aksharavedi etc. ![]() Digitizing local content was impossible till Rachana revived the original script that can be processed aas per their syntactic and semantic relations. Adopting the same for computers also led to chaos and confusion. ![]() Malayalam Script which got final shape at the time of Tunjath Ezhuttachan and preserved as it is in printing by Benjamin Bailey (1821) and Herman Gundert who developed technology to suit the specificities of the language and script was modified and deformed by native scholars since 1970 to suit the English Typewriters. This failure was due to non availability of Malayalam Language Technology. But the development concentrating on infrastructures disregarded ‘information’ part especially applications for managing content in local language. Kerala has invested millions of rupees for Information Infrastructure development claiming to make information accessible to the un-reached. ![]() ICT can undertake this function and empower and emancipate the backward people if Information Systems can be developed using the language/script of the people to cater to their day today vital information needs. It is the base on which development process occur and is a capital resource which needs to be equitably distributed in a democratic system. Knowledge accumulated in a society is recorded in its language. ![]()
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