page_title: International School of Information Management
section_title: Projects
hierarchical_section_title: International School of Information Management / Academics / Projects
caption_attribution_description: Participants and Volunteers of the first edition of Internet Safari, the Internet Awareness Training Programme, organized by ISiM in association with National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, at ISiM, Mysore.
context_page_description: The International School of Information Management is the first Indian i-School and is an autonomous constituent institute of the University of Mysore, located in Mysore in Karnataka State, Southern India. ISiM was conceptualised and established in 2005, in collaboration with the leading information schools in the U.S – namely the School of Information at the University of Michigan, the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, and Dalhousie University of Canada. ISiM was established with munificent grants from the Ford Foundation and Bangalore based Informatics India Pvt. Ltd.
context_section_description: ISiM has been involved in various community projects, which include:
  In Mar 2007, ISIM received Rs 1 crore funding and collaboration from Rediff to research Indian language content management and Optical Character Recognition. (Indo-Aryan languages, Dravidian languages)
  Education Development Center (EDC) India Digital Library of Audio Visual Educational Materials
  Sasyasiri: Web enabled multimedia database of plants of Karnataka, Govt. of Karnataka
caption: Participants and Volunteers of the first edition of Internet Safari at ISiM.
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