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| Lenovo in vernacular computing initiative |
| BS Reporter / Chennai/ Bangalore Mar 13, 2009, 00:59 IST |
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Donates desktops to schools.
PC maker Lenovo on Thursday announced the launch of ‘Matrubhasha’, a vernacular computing initiative in India that aims at helping the school children to gain computer proficiency in their mother-tongue, without depending on English.
As a part of the Matrubhasha project, Lenovo has announced to donate 150 Lenovo H series desktops to 38 Akshara Foundation libraries in 35 government schools and three Urdu government schools in Karnataka.
The desktops will be pre-installed with LooKeys, a vernacular computing software application.
The LooKeys-enabled Lenovo PCs will allow children to learn computing programmes in 12 languages including English, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Tamil, Kannada, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam, Konkani and Punjabi. The children can also use applications like chat, word processing, PowerPoint, E-mails and Web surfing using the language of their choice as the medium.
Ramprasad Lakshminarayanan, Vice President, Transactional Consumer Sales, Lenovo India said, “The Matrubhasha project is a grassroots level initiative, in helping children gain computer literacy so that they’re able to put this technological advancement to their education’s advantage. We hope this advantage exposes them to opportunities that would have otherwise been restricted to English-aware children only.” Lenovo India employees will also commit approximately 3-5 volunteer hours per month to train the librarians in the schools.
Other than the volunteers, the staff of Akshara Foundation will also regularly monitor the progress of the projects in the respective schools.
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