Event looks at making Tamil relevant in Internet age

THE first World Tamil Internet Conference 2017 took place over three days at the Sultan Idris Education University in Tanjung Malim, Perak, Tamil Nesan reported.

The conference, which aimed to make Tamil usage more relevant online, as well as enable the teaching and learning of the language online, was organised by the World Tamil Epics Research Association in collaboration with Indian youth groups. The conference, which took place from Aug 25-27, drew participants from the United States, India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia.

They included researchers, computer experts, writers and teachers, who presented papers related to teaching and learning Tamil in the Internet age.

These presentations will be published and made available to all Tamil schools in the country with the help of MyPPP president Tan Sri M. Kayveas. 

The conference also adopted several resolutions, such as to expand the Tamil vocabulary for Internet usage, making Tamil available for online commerce, making new Tamil books available online and setting up Tamil learning websites.

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