Estimates of the size of the indian language market vary widely.

Yograj Verma, in an article in the June 24th, 2002 issue of DataQuest India argues that the rural market (which needs local language support) is INR 65,260 crores (INR 652.6 billion).

A white paper from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore pegged the market size for multilingual computing in 1999-2000 at about INR 15 crores (INR 150 million) with a potential grow in 5 years to INR 150 crores (INR 1.5 billion). (This report is not online; softcopies are available from Prof. Sadagopan at the IIIT-B.)

There are a number of resources dealing with internationalization and localization available. We list a few below.

Web Resources

• The Google Web Directory page on globalization is an excellent starting point, as is the Open Directory Project's page on online resources for software globalization.

• i18n.com is an independent website covering developments relevant to the global software community.

• The Yahoo! discussion group on I18N programming is a forum for programmers and web programmers to discuss programming topics related to internationalization.

• i18ngurus.com is an open directory of links to internationalization resources and related material.

Print Resources

• Multilingual Computing & Technology is a print magazine devoted to internationalized software development and language technology.

• The Human Language Technologies program of the European Union aims at developing language technologies to facilitate seamless trade, education and healthcare across all their languages.

• The Translingual Information Detection Extraction and Summarization project is developing advanced language processing technology to enable English speakers to find and interpret critical information in multiple languages without requiring knowledge of those languages.

• The UNL project at the U.N. University, Tokyo, aims at developing machine translation technology based on a ``Universal Networking Language''.