RevHack 2020 - Bengaluru to host India’s first Indian Language based Hackathon for Digital Equality
RevHack 2020 is going to happen on 18th January 2020 in Bangalore, India. Would you like to know what is RevHack 2020 and what is India’s first Indian Language based Hackathon for Digital Equality? If yes, find its detail below.
- Reverie Technologies in association with NASSCOM will be co-hosting #RevHack.
- The main objective is to build an ecosystem to drive language equality on the Indian Internet space.
Reverie Language Technologies, leaders in comprehensive full-stack Indic language localization and user engagement solutions and NASSCOM will be co-hosting #RevHack, India’s first Indian language-based hackathon.
On Saturday, January 18, over 200 participants will be battling it out to build solutions to drive “Language Equality on the Indian Internet.”
RevHack has drawn participation from experts and enthusiasts who aim to build multilingual tech solutions for Indic language first Indians.
Themed around creating an ecosystem for solving problems in digital Indian language space, the participants will be using technology to build and deliver a functional prototype that solves the problems in Indic language content creation and localization.
The participants will have access to Reverie’s language APIs - Speech-to-text, Text-to-speech, and Neural Machine Translation.
India has a literacy rate of 69.1% and only .01% of Indic content is available on the internet for consumption.
While there will be 536 million language first digital users in India by 2021, there still is a long way to go for achieving “Language Equality on the internet”.
With the first edition of #RevHack it look forward to inspiring coders, developers, and the student community to create innovative Indic language technology-based solutions so that the internet can be truly accessible for all.
Regional language users can progress beyond browsing and India can realize the potential of the next 500 million users.”, comments Arvind Pani, CEO and Co-founder of Reverie Language Technologies.
Join the RevHack community on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Stay tuned for more update on this.
