Inaugural Session

Date:            Saturday, 28th July 2001
Venue:         Hotel Holiday Inn, Islamabad

9:15 am Guests to be seated
9:30 am - 9:32 am Recitation from Holy Qura'an
9:33 am - 9:40 am Welcome Address by the Project Director, SDNP Pakistan
9:40 am - 9:45 am Message from MINC by the CEO, Multilingual Internet Names Consortium
9:45 am - 10:00 am Address by the Chief Guest
  Tea

Technical Session

11:00 am - 11:15 am Introduction to the Workshop and MINC
11:15 am - 12:00 pm AINC Presentation On Arabic Internet Names System [Part of it would be through teleconference]
12:00 pm - 01:00 pm MINC Presentation - Economics and Politics of Multilingual Internet Names By Ms. Y. J. Park
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch Break
02:00 pm - 03:00 pm An overview of Urdu informatics and standardization By Dr. Muhammad Afzal
03:00 pm - 03:15 pm Linguistic Aspects of Urdu informatics standardization By Dr. Atash Durrani
03:15 pm - 04:00 pm Discussion on Urdu domain names and routing
04:00 pm - 04:15 pm Tea Break
04:15 pm - 05:00 pm Formation of the Urdu group.

Discussion List

The Multilingual Internet Names Consortium (MINC) has created a mailing/discussion list on Urdu for the prospective Urdu Working Group (urdu@minc.org). But it's open to anybody who is interested in this area. For subscribing to this list, please send the following command to majordomo@minc.org:
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