Google to conduct two-day Hackathon and workshop in Bangalore

Google India is holding a two-day Hackathon and workshop in Bangalore on Fidynd Saturday, focused on designing and creating Android applications in Indian languages.

Nearly 100 developers are expected to participate in the event, which is open to both amateur and professional developers, Google said.

The workshop also aims to promote regional languages and develop applications for internet users who use and understand only their native, to encourage more users to come online.

PTI quoted Rajan Anandan, managing director of Google India, as saying that the next 300 million internet users in India would not use English, which was the reason Google was working on enabling the internet in Indian languages, which was the key to driving growth.

He added, the company was seeing great interest from users in small towns across India, because people were becoming aware of the value of the internet even in small towns and villages.

This Hackathon would help organisations prepare for the coming growth in the Indian language internet, he said.

Google will host workshops covering the technical process of enabling apps in Indian languages and monetisation potential of language apps.

The sessions will also cover business aspects of enabling existing android applications in multiple languages and how that can further the reach and monetisation potential of the apps for the developers.

"The objective of the sessions is to enable better understanding of the growing Internet user base in India and the opportunity it represents for the developers and help them to build valuable skills," Google said in a statement said.