Nine Projects to augment Multimedia Efforts

NEW DELHI, November: NIC has announced nine multimedia projects to provide an impetus to its efforts at multimedia technology development. These projects, of 18 months to 2 years duration, are:

• Arts and Culture Multimedia Application. Duration: 3 years.
• Development and Commercialization of low-cost multimedia add-on Cards, Workstations and Training Material. Duration: 3 years.
• Hypernic Development and Application, over NICNET. Duration: 24 months
• Multimedia Presentation Software Development and Training. Duration: 24 months
• Development and Commercial Distribution of Multimedia CD-ROM for promoting Tourism. Duration: 24 months.
• Multimedia Teleconferencing Project. Duration: 24 months.
• Multimedia Electronic Mail. Duration: 18 months.
• Research on Virtual Reality System — Conceptualization and Prototype Development of a two-person Co-Cognitive Virtual Reality System. Duration: 24 months.

(For further details please contact: The Editor, INFORMATICS, National Informatics Centre, CGO Complex, A-Block, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003. Ph: 4361133-4425)