Tamil Virtual Academy

TAMIL VIRTUAL ACADEMY

The Tamil Virtual Academy was incepted by the Government of Tamil Nadu on 17th February 2001 with the aim of bringing Tamil to the world through the internet. This organization is implementing kindergarten education programs to provide Tamil language and Tamil culture, etc., to the people living around the world through the internet. The web address is www.tamilvu.org/index.php.

Through this scheme, many people were given financial support to develop various Tamil Softwares. The Tamil software developed under this scheme was intended with the objective of providing the Tamil software to the public on behalf of the government.

Tamil Software certification for TAB / TAM compatibility was given by the company and Tamil Computer Association.

1. Mission of Tamil Virtual Academy

The project has three stages of work plans. They are

i) e-Learning programs

iii) e-Library

iii) Development of Computerized Tamil

1. e-Learning Programs

Educational Certificates under this scheme are issued at three levels (Basic, Intermediate and Advanced). Apart from this, Tamil language Bachelor's Degree is also offered.

A Tamil Master's Degree is also offered through the Tamil University, Tanjore.

2. e-Library

This e-library contains rare books, nationalized books, Tamil Nadu Text Books and Institute of Educational workbooks, research papers, periodicals and journals.

3. Development of Computerized Tamil

The University is supervising the development and improvement of Computer Tamil through the following organizations.

(i) Tamil Software Development Fund

This is a grant given to an organization or individual who wants to develop new softwares in Tamil or improve the existing softwares.

(ii) Computer Tamil Council

The Computer Tamil Council is working with the objectives of enriching and strengthening the contributions of Tamil to the internet, encouraging the development of Computer Tamil and Tamil application software, imparting subjective training to students and creating apps.

2. Tamil Development Movement, Singapore

The Movement was launched in 2001 under the supervision of Singapore's Ministry of Information, with the aim of establishing Tamil as a living and functioning language in Singapore, uniting people of all ages through Tamil and with an intention of promoting Tamil.

3. Madurai Tamil Literary e-Synthesis Project

A voluntary Non-Government Project for digitization of all books in Tamil has been uploading all the books published in Tamil since 1998. Due to the selfless efforts of Tamils living all over the world, 600 videos have been uploaded to the internet so far.

Web address: http://www.projectmadurai.org

4. Tamil Wikipedia

Wikipedia is an open source repository. Anyone can write articles on wikipedia on any topic. Tamil Wikipedia is a very large encyclopedia containing over one lakh articles in Tamil.

Web address: https://ta.wikipedia.org