kochi whiteboards and marker pens with erasable ink used for displaying words of malayalam in government offices would soon be out of fashion with the international centre for free and open source software icfoss launching a smart solution for the purposeas per an existing government directive government offices are supposed to place a board where five words used for administrative communication are displayed with their malayalam word equivalentsoffices having smart tv monitors can link to a url provided by icfoss and the electronic equivalent would populate five random words said a senior official with icfossthe electronic board is available as a popup in icfoss website and can also be accessed on keralagovin portal the first week of november is celebrated as official language week by the state governmentthe words in the popup which will be picked up from a bharana bhasha database would refresh every 30 seconds showing new ones new words curated by language experts are added to keep the system dynamicin 2017 we had developed an online dictionary called bharana malayalam which also has a mobile application it has around 20000 words used for administrative communication says r sivakumar a language expert who helps government departments identify proper malayalam words for administrative communicationnew words are admitted based on a policy formulated in 2005 if there is a malayalam word that is available and has a certain standard it is preferred he said for other language words if there is no replaceable word in malayalam it is accepted as a loan word sometimes we adapt other language words by slightly tweaking them he said sivakumar says they are now planning to revise the lexicon by adding another 3000 words we hope to complete the exercise in another six months he said