With the objective to strengthen the research, development, adoption, promotion, usage, training and education of the Nepali Language in Information Technology, HLCIT formed the Nepali Language in Information Technology, Steering Committee. Headed by a member of HLCIT and with a member-Secretary from the Private Sector, the Steering Committee has members from the government, public, private, academia as well as various associations and media. In general the Steering Committee shall look after all issues pertaining to strengthening the position of Nepalese language in IT on behalf of HLCIT, including standardization issues (such as character sets, keyboard layouts, fonts, glossary, dictionary etc.); language issues (e.g. sorting order, glyph sets, glossary etc.); conversion issues (e.g. old document etc.); Interconnectivity issues (e.g. cross platform , DNS, Email etc.); Database issues (e.g. indexing etc.); and Locale issues (e.g. Date, Time, Calendar, Currency, Numbers etc.).