DUSHANBE, May 29, Asia-Plus — Not more than 250 Internet-sites have been registered in Tajikistan so far, and only 80-100 of them have operated actively, while others are not in operation or useless, Tolib Rozi, the head of the terminology department at the Academy of Science, remarked at a conference in Dushanbe on May 28.
An international two-day conference formally titled “Tajik Language and Information” opened at the Academy of Sciences on May 28.
The conference, staged by the government, terminology committee, ministries of culture and education, as well as the committee for TV and radio-broadcasting under support of Relief International, ICT-ENTPE, CIPI, Babilon-T and Open Society Institute/Assistance Foundation – Tajikistan, has brought together representatives of Tajikistan, the United States, Afghanistan and Iran to discuss issues related to adaptation of the Tajik language to computer and information technologies.
Speaking at the conference, Mr. Rozi noted that many organizations and institutions in Tajikistan do not have sites in the Tajik language; moreover, they even have not yet opened their Internet portals.
He also expressed concern that no higher educational institution in Tajikistan has site in the Tajik language. “Many higher educational institutions that train students in information technologies and working out Internet site do not have their own site themselves,” Rozi said.
“Time has come to fill this gap and our specialists have worked out an operating system for computers in the Tajik language that will be gradually introduced in information space of Tajikistan,” he noted.
