A new server for the IFP

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The IFP has acquired a new server built on latest specifications and a considerable amount of storage.

Besides taking care of the IFP’s website and its mail and ftp services, this server now allows:

  On the one hand, to house important digital databases (Historical Atlas of South India, CD-ROMs on Indian cultural knowledge and heritage, interactive database on towns of India, digitised manuscripts, photo archives, catalogue of the IFP’s library,…etc.) and open-source software designed by the IFP [weed identification and computer-aided mapping (WEB Mapping), for example] ;

  On the other hand, to allow the use of sophisticated software, notably mapping software (“Web Mapping) and for modeling complex systems.

A database ("Digital Database") is under construction.

News - Year 2007

• Launching of a multimedia application for identifying trees of the Western Ghats December
• Launching of the online catalogue of the documentary resources of the IFP December
• Seminar on water management in South India November
• When the IFP and the Alliance Française join forces .... November
• The exportation of homeopathy: the case of South India November
• Seminar of anthropology of Tibetan medicine November
• The Director of the IFP, member of the Executive Committee of the "National Knowledge Commission" of the Government of Pondicherry November
• Impact of microfinance on rural employment : A new interdisciplinary and international research project November
• An Oscar for « OSCAR » ! November
• Forms of resistance to labour bondage October
• Globalization of Asian medicines October
• Seminar on the relationship between Sanskrit and Tamil September
• The IFP has edited a DVD on water management in India September
• Arrival of the new Secretary General of the IFP September
• Reference publications on the biodiversity of the Western Ghats by the IFP September
• Seminar on metropolitan transition in India September
• Two days for a social critical debate on siddha medicine August
• Manuscript Open Day July
• Spotlight on Panini’s grammar July
• Self-financing of the IFP’s publications July
• Conference on the theme of “Metropolitanisation” July
• An ecologist of the IFP honoured in New Delhi May
• Release of a CD-ROM devoted to Pondicherry May
• Seminar on debt bondage in India May
• Workshop on social management of water in India May
• International Conference "Facets of Tamil Diaspora" April
• The IFP, focal point for exchanges on the biodiversity in tropical Asia April
• Workshop “After Tsunami: Lessons Learnt and Future Strategies” April
• Two trainings given in indology April
• 10th Workshop of the Association of Young Indian Studies (AJEI) in Pondicherry April
• Special issue of the journal Indian Anthropologist edited by L. Pordié (IFP) January

News - Year 2006

• New research project on the usage of biodiversity in India December
• Contradictory debate on the virtues of microcredit December
• Director, Member of the CONFRASIE office December
• The Shaiva Manuscripts of Pondicherry September
• OSCAR, an open source software that recognizes weeds September
• Programme “Population and Space”: the dividends of excellence September
• The IFP in the headlines of " Frontline Magazine " (India) August
• Three authors given distinction in indology August
• Mrs. Vasanthy Georges, Research Director at the IFP, awarded Knighthood in the French Order of the Academic Palms July
• The Saiva manuscripts June
• The IFP and the CIRAD strengthen their ties June
• The IFP heading a project on « Democracy and access to healthcare” June
• Quantitative ecology takes root at the IFP June
• The catalogue of the IFP library is now online March
• Collaboration with Morocco on the theme of social management of water February
• Collaboration with Japan in Ecology January
• Biodiversity conservation in India January
• Saiva Manuscripts of IFP as National Treasures of India January
• Networked project on urban development January
• Labour in South Asia January

News - Year 2005

• The IFP and EFEO strengthen their ties December
• A distinction in Indology December
• The IRD assigns 2 researchers to the IFP December
• Seminar on the traditional healing systems in India December
• Microfinance in « Le Monde » December
• Golden Jubilee February