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daily12011-07-28T03:29:13ZWikimedia Education SAARC conference
https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikimedia-education-saarc-conference
<b>Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) happy to announce that, Wikimedia Education SAARC conference 2019 programme submissions (proposals) are open from today, 25 April 2019. Deadline for applying for scholarship is 20 May 2019. The conference organized by Christ University in association with CIS-A2K will be held from 20 - 22 June 2019 at Christ University in Bengaluru. The event is being co-organized by Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia & Education User Group.</b>
<p id="_mcePaste" style="text-align: justify;">Education is a core function of the Wikipedia project. Many Wiki chapters, the Wikimedia movement, user groups and affiliates are developing education programs across the globe. Wiki has been used as a teaching resource by many teachers. Students are doing assignments on Wiki and adopting modern technologies. The Wikimedia and Education movements have the same goal - to ensure that knowledge is made accessible to every person across the world.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The CIS-A2K team, for instance, is working with the language department of Christ University and other educational institutions to enrich the content of Indic Wikimedia projects with the help of students. Globally many students and educators are involved in the Wikimedia movement and the Education movement working towards democratising education and increasing accessibility of education materials. We believe that students should not only consume knowledge available on the internet but also be a part of the larger Open Internet movement, and help in creating open knowledge resources. The Wikimedia Education SAARC conference will be the first of its kind conference involving SAARC countries, engaging students, education program leaders, educators and researchers working with the Open Education and free knowledge movement.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This conference will allow us to understand the different efforts made by the communities involved in the Wikimedia Education movement. This will help us to create models, templates and documents that can be replicated in by other institutions or programs. We at CIS A2K were inspired to host such a conference through the course of our work with Christ University. This will be one of the many projects that will be able to use the conference as a platform to showcase their work among the global Wikimedia movement.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Conference Goals</h3>
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<li>To generate awareness of Wikipedian Education programs and activities happening in Asia by different community members/languages.</li>
<li>Sharing the knowledge and best practices of how to build "trust relationship" with new partners/teachers and how to improve trust in Wikipedia.</li>
<li>Challenges on student retention and how to engage students in the broader Wikimedia movement.</li>
<li>The best method to evaluate and measure the quality of the work done by students.</li>
<li>To introduce tools like the dashboard, across diverse languages, and other tools which will be useful for tracking, assessment, allocation of the topics and others.</li>
<li>Integration of Wiki activities with academic assignments, regular course syllabus.</li>
<li>To bridge the gap and develop a mutually beneficial liaison between Wiki communities and Wikimedia Education stakeholders.</li></ul>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikimedia-education-saarc-conference'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikimedia-education-saarc-conference</a>
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No publisherAdminCIS-A2KEventAccess to Knowledge2019-06-22T09:30:46ZEventTrain-the-Trainer 2019 at Vishakhapatnam
https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/train-the-trainer-2019-at-vishakhapatnam
<b>Train-the-trainer 2019 (TTT 2019), residential training program to groom leadership among the Indian Wikimedia community members, is going to happen in Visakhapatnam during 31 May, 1 and 2 June 2019 at Fairfield by Marriott Hotel at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">TTT 2019 is the 6th iteration in the earlier iterations happened in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. Based on internal needs-assessment conducted annually by CIS-A2K tweaks and improvises the design and expected outcomes of TTT every year. This year, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Work_plan_July_2018_-_June_2019/Skill_Building_Initiatives#Annual_Train-the-Trainer">A2K planned</a> to involve communities or community members in planning, and organizing the event to be more transparent. This year A2K has two major changes in organising the TTT.</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><span>Indic communities were asked to take part in the bidding process in order to </span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2019/Bids">express interest </a><span>to host this iteration of TTT. Based on the bidding process, this year A2K is going to collaborate with </span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VVIT_WikiConnect">VVIT Wikiconnect</a><span> to host TTT 2019 in Visakhapatnam.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Wikimedians from various language and project communities showed interest to attend TTT 2019. The jury considered these applications and selected 24 participants from 13 language and project communities. A2K involved Experienced Indian Wikimedians who are not part of CIS-A2K in the jury. Apart from the details provided by applicants over application form jury members made attempts to know more about participants and reached out some of them over brief telephone calls. Based on set parameters and analysis jury made decisions. Find the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2019#Participants">selected participants’ list</a><span> here.</span></li>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>Please find </span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2019"><span>the event page</span></a><span> for further details.</span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/train-the-trainer-2019-at-vishakhapatnam'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/train-the-trainer-2019-at-vishakhapatnam</a>
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No publisherpavanCIS-A2KEventAccess to Knowledge2019-05-24T02:21:19ZEventWikimedia Summit India 2019
https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikimedia-summit-india-2019
<b>CIS-A2K team is organizing a two-day Wikimedia Summit event for the participants taking part in the Wikimedia Summit in Berlin.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Wikimedia Summit India 2019</b> is an national-level event which intends to prepare representatives of various user groups, affliates, committees, groups, and teams associated to Wikimedia foundation from India who are going to attend in Wikimedia Summit 2019 and helping them understand about Movement Strategy process.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Wikimedia Summit 2019 (WMSummit 19) will be designed along the needs and status of the Movement Strategy Process and its Working Groups, as well as the participants’ input. The 2019 event will be an important milestone of the Movement Strategy Process.</p>
<p>Wikimedia Summit India 2019 will serve following goals:</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Helping participants understand Ongoing phase in movement strategy process: Some of the participants are participating in Movement strategy process' ongoing phase in different capacities, while others might not have a good understanding about it. This conference aims to improve understanding about strategy process especially regarding 9 strategy Working groups and their scoping.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Preparation for WMSummit 19: The Summit will be an occasion where the affiliates’ and WMF’s leadership will come together to check in on the broader direction of the Strategy Process, with the opportunity to reinforce their co-ownership in this process. All Working Groups will have reached the point in their work where they prepare to draft and discuss first recommendations within their thematic area. From Indian Wikimedia movement's perspective, this offers them an opportunity to share their experience in different thematic areas of strategy process and help the broader movement strategy to have different perspectives. Also, this helps Indian Wikimedia movement to utilize experiences and learnings from different areas of Wikimedia movement and utilize them to grow the movement in India exponantially. Wikimedia Summit India 2019 also aims on gathering the collective and diverse experiences and learnings of Indian Wikimedia movement and understand where they can help in movement strategy process.</li>
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<h3>Schedule</h3>
<dl><dt>Friday - 15 March 2019</dt></dl>
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<li>6:30 PM to 8 PM: Introductions</li>
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<dl><dt>Saturday - 16 March 2019</dt></dl>
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<li>9:30 AM to 10 AM: Introduction to WMSummit India 2019</li>
<li>10 AM to 11:30 AM: Strategy Process: Necessity, Strategic direction 2030, Timeline</li>
<li>11:30 AM to 1 PM: Reinforcing co-ownership in Strategy process: How communities and affliates can be part of process</li>
<li>1 PM to 1:30 PM: Lunch</li>
<li>1:30 PM to 2:30 PM: Potential Impact of Strategy process</li>
<li>2:30 PM to 5 PM: Introducing various working groups: Working group representatives will be requested to explain over video calls</li>
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<dl><dt>Sunday - 17 March 2019</dt></dl>
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<li>10 AM to 10:20 AM: Working group scoping documents' introduction</li>
<li>10:20 AM to 12 PM: Various community learnings and to what working group's scope they matter: Group activity</li>
<li>12 PM to 1 PM:</li>
<li>1 PM to 1:30 PM: Lunch</li>
<li>1:30 to 2:30: Way forward: Consulting their community and framing agenda before WMSummit 2019</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikimedia-summit-india-2019'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikimedia-summit-india-2019</a>
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No publisherAdminWikimediaWikipediaEventAccess to Knowledge2019-03-03T05:31:35ZEventVan Bodh Workshop for content development on Forest Resources at Gadchiroli
https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/van-bodh-workshop-for-content-development-on-forest-resources-at-gadchiroli
<b>CIS-A2K has collaborated with Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI) to facilitate development of Open knowledge resources on Community Forest Resource and content development in Wikimedia projects with community participation. These contents will become a part of "Van Bodh Knowledge repository".</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy, Bombay University has formulated and going to start a "Diploma course in Community Resource Management " with the support of TRTI, Pune from 2nd of oct 2018. This is a historic attempt to impart education of the level of a diploma to rural, especially tribal youth without any condition of academic qualification. The course was conducted at Mendha(Lekha) an hamlet in Dhanora taluk of Gadchiroli District. CIS-A2K has collaborated with TRTI to facilitate development of Open knowledge resources on Community Forest Resource and content development in Wikimedia projects with community participation.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/van-bodh-workshop-for-content-development-on-forest-resources-at-gadchiroli'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/van-bodh-workshop-for-content-development-on-forest-resources-at-gadchiroli</a>
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No publisherAdminCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaEvent2018-11-06T01:36:39ZEventTrain the Trainer 2018
https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/train-the-trainer-2018
<b>We are delighted to inform that the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2018 programme organised by CIS-A2K will be held from 26-28 January 2018, in Mysore, Karnataka, India.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K believes that in every experienced Wikimedian, there is a trainer. A trainer is like a candle that can light up many other candles. (S)he can inspire many other Wikimedians. The workshop attempts to groom such trainers. After three successful iterations of <strong>Train the Trainer</strong> in 2013, 2015, 2016, and 2017, CIS-A2K is going to organize the fifth iteration of the program on 26-28 January 2018 (note 25 January is day zero).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>What is TTT?<br /></strong><span class="gmail-m_1881025737862796104gmail-il">Train</span> <span class="gmail-m_1881025737862796104gmail-il">the</span> <span class="gmail-m_1881025737862796104gmail-il">Trainer</span> or TTT is a residential training program. <span class="gmail-m_1881025737862796104gmail-il">The</span> program attempts to groom leadership skills among <span class="gmail-m_1881025737862796104gmail-il">the</span> Indian Wikimedia community (including English) members. Earlier TTT have been conducted in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017.</p>
<div class="gmail_default"><strong>Who should join?<br /></strong></div>
<div class="gmail_default">An editor who is interested to conduct real-life and online Wiki-events such as outreach, workshop, GLAM, edit-a-thon, photowalk etc.</div>
<div class="gmail_default">Any active Wikimedian contributing to any Indic language Wikimedia project is eligible to apply.<br />The editor must have 500+ global edits before 1 November 2017. Anyone who has already participated in an earlier iteration of TTT, cannot apply.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">Please see more about this program and apply to participate or encourage <span class="gmail-m_1881025737862796104gmail-il">the</span> deserving candidates from your community to do so:<br /><span class="gmail-m_1881025737862796104gmail-il"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2018"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2018</span></a><br /></span></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><span class="gmail-m_1881025737862796104gmail-il">Note: In an effort to encourage participation from women and other minorities, at least 20 percent of the participants at TTT 2018 would comprise of women and/ or other minorities.</span></div>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/train-the-trainer-2018'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/train-the-trainer-2018</a>
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No publisherAdminWikimediaWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2018-01-01T16:39:17ZEventGender Equality in the Workplace
https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/gender-equality-in-the-workplace
<b>The workshop was conducted by Samvada at the Centre for Internet & Society's office in Bengaluru on November 15, 2017. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Why is it important for a workshop on sexual harassment to address the larger question of gender equality in the workplace? And how does an understanding of equality help prevent and address sexual harassment?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">At this moment in time, we are witnessing an unprecedented “outing” of incidents of sexual harassment and the men who are responsible for them. The worlds of filmmaking and academia are reverberating with discussions on the nature of the workplace and what women have had to suffer in silence because of the ways in which power is distributed between genders.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Now more than ever it’s important for us to understand what sexual harassment is, the structures that support it, the experiences that surround it, and ways of addressing it within our workplaces, so that we don’t lose ourselves in the following: a) a flattened and ahistorical idea of how power functions within our daily work; b) polarisations between men and women that denies all dialogue and self-reflection; and c) purely legalistic ideas on what harassment is and how to deal with it. The 1-day workshop will do the following:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Encourage the staff of CIS to understand how power functions in relationships within the organisation</li>
<li>Offer historical, social and legal understandings of sexual harassment at the workplace</li>
<li>Set up participatory discussion on the experiences of both men and women within the workplace</li>
<li>Help carve out a way forward in both prevention and redressal of SH</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The sessions will take the form of participatory discussions and activities, that will draw on the experiences, opinions and histories of the CIS staff.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Anita Ratnam</b> is the Founder and Executive Director of Samvada (Bangalore), an organisation that has been working with youth on issues of social justice and sustainability since 1990. The organisation runs 6 Youth Resource Centres/Yuva Samvada Kendras in different parts of Karnataka, and also established Baduku Community College in Bangalore in 2007, as an effort to build alternative livelihoods for youth. She is also Co-founder and Partner at Anekataa, an organisation that works on gender diversity at the corporate workplace. In the last 30 years she has written and taught on a range of issues related to youth rights, gender justice, crafts and traditional occupations, communalism and pluralism, and sustainable development. Her publications include “Traditional occupations in a modern world: Career Guidance, Livelihood Planning, and Crafts in the Context of Globalization”, in <i>Handbook of Career Development: International Perpsectives</i> (eds. Gideon Arulmani, Anuradha J Bakshi, Frederick TL Leong and AG Watts) and a host of media publications on issues ranging from garment industries, caste and development, the ban on night shift work for women, sex education, racism and rape, and gender and religion. She has also contributed to and helped shape the emergence of many organisations that work on human rights-related issues in Karnataka and elsewhere in India.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Nitya Vasudevan</b> is currently working at Baduku Community College (Samvada) as Convener of Centre for Wellness and Justice. She also co-coordinates the project on “Strengthening Gender and Sexuality Education” (AJWS) within Samvada, and conducts workshops with students on gender, marriage, relationships and sexuality. Her publications include “The State of Desire and other flights of fantasy: Sexuality, Pornography, Technology”, in Law Like Love: Queer Perspectives on Law (co-authored with Namita Aavriti, eds. Arvind Narrain and Alok Gupta), “’Public Women’ and the ‘Obscene’ Body: An Exploration of Abolition Debates in India”, in <i>The Sexual History of the Global South: Sexual Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America</i> (eds Saskia Wieringa and Horacio Sivori), “Between Ooru, Area and Pettai: The Terms of the Local in Tamil Cinema of the 21<sup>st</sup> Century”, in the journal <i>Positions</i> (Rice University, upcoming issue); and a set of columns for <i>TimeOut Bengaluru</i>. She is also a co-organiser of the Bangalore Queer Film Festival along with a team of eight others who work on the festival simply out of a mad love for good cinema, performance and art.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Together, both have coordinate and conducted (along with other Samvada staff) a series of workshops at all the offices of Greenpeace India International, on “Gender Sensitivity and Diversity at the Workplace” (2016).</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/gender-equality-in-the-workplace'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/gender-equality-in-the-workplace</a>
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No publisherAdminWikimediaWikipediaEventAccess to Knowledge2017-11-26T03:12:49ZEventOdia Wikipedia and Orientation Training Programme
https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/odia-wikipedia-and-orientation-training-programme
<b>An Odia Wikipedia orientation and training programme is being organized by the Centre for Internet & Society's (CIS-A2K) team on 31 January 2017 at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal in Odisha. </b>
<h3>Agenda</h3>
<ul>
<li>Bringing new editors on board.</li>
<li>Orientation programme for students of IIMC.</li>
<li>Finding possible partnership with the institute.</li>
</ul>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/odia-wikipedia-and-orientation-training-programme'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/odia-wikipedia-and-orientation-training-programme</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaEventAccess to Knowledge2017-01-23T00:58:38ZEventSeminar on Rethinking Copyright and Licensing for Digital Publishing Today (Delhi, January 23)
https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/seminar-on-rethinking-copyright-and-licensing-for-digital-publishing-today-delhi-jan-23-2017
<b>Against the backdrop of a growing global and domestic digital publishing industry on one hand and the recent judgment by the Delhi High Court that upheld the education exception to reproduction of academic and literary works, Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council, Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi, and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are organising a seminar to discuss and reflect on the relevance and functions of copyright and licensing within the transforming market practices and legal structures of the publishing industry today.</b>
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<img src="http://cis-india.org/a2k/events/seminar-on-rethinking-copyright-and-licensing-for-digital-publishing-today-delhi-january-23/leadImage" alt="Seminar on Rethinking Copyright and Licensing for Digital Publishing Today, Delhi, January 23" width="400" />
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<h4>Poster: <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/events/seminar-on-rethinking-copyright-and-licensing-for-digital-publishing-today-delhi-january-23/leadImage">Download</a> (PNG)</h4>
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<p>The two speakers at the seminar will be <a href="#philipp">Dr. Philipp Theisohn</a>, Professor of Modern German Literary Studies, Zurich University, and <a href="#kerstin">Ms. Kerstin Schuster</a>, Droemer Knaur publishing group. The session will be chaired by <a href="#zakir">Mr. Zakir Thomas</a>, Additional Director General (Risk Assessment), Directorate of Income Tax, Government of India.</p>
<p>Dr. Theisohn will address the question of whether the digital age requires a new approach to copyright thinking, and Ms. Schuster will discuss the dynamics of the international market for licenses in the contemporary publishing world.</p>
<p>Please join us at the CIS Delhi office on Monday, January 23, at 11:00 for the seminar. The seminar will include the presentations by the speakers followed by an open moderated discussion.</p>
<p>Further, it is our great pleasure to inform you that in a recent judgement on the Super Cassettes v. MySpace case, the Delhi High has strengthened the safe harbor immunity enjoyed by internet intermediaries in India. As CIS was one of the intervenors in the case, and has been duly acknowledged in the judgment, we would like to invite you for an informal discussion about the case over lunch. This will take place after the seminar.</p>
<p>A brief analysis of the judgement can be found <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/super-cassettes-v-myspace">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Please RSVP by sending an email to Nisha Kumar at <a href="mailto:nisha@cis-india.org">nisha@cis-india.org</a>.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Address:</strong> The Centre for Internet and Society, first floor, B 1/8, Hauz Khas, near G block market, after Crunch, New Delhi, 110016.</p>
<p><strong>Location on Google Map:</strong> <a href="http://j.mp/cis-delhi">http://j.mp/cis-delhi</a>.</p>
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<h3 id="philipp"><strong>Philipp Theisohn</strong></h3>
<p>Philipp Theisohn, who was born in 1974, studied Modern German Literature, Medieval Studies and Philosophy in Tübingen and Zürich. He gained his doctorate in Jerusalem and Tübingen and, since 2013, has been Professor of Modern German Literary Studies at Zurich University. He has produced numerous publications on German and European literary history from the 13th to the 21st century, in particular on “literary future knowledge“, the perception of literary property, and Jewish Cultural Poetics.</p>
<p>The focal points of his work and research are the literature of Switzerland, literary property/plagiarism as a literary historical phenomenon, science fiction and futurology, realism, Franz Kafka and Early Modern Poetics of Knowledge.</p>
<p>Theisohn is intensely involved in the transmission of literature far beyond the academic environment. He is a member of the jury for the “Swiss Book Prize“ of the Publishers‘ Association, an expert for inter-disciplinary and literary projects for the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia; he curates literary exhibitions, is active in a broad range of journalistic work, among other things for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and is in charge of the blog and website of the “Schweizer Buchjahr” which contributes significantly to contemporary literary discourse.</p>
<p>Among his most important book publications are: "Die Zukunft der Dichtung. Geschichte des literarischen Orakels 1450-2050" (“The Future of Poetry. The History of the Literary Oracle 1450-2050”); “Plagiat. Eine unoriginelle Literaturgeschichte”( “Plagiarism. An Unoriginal Literary History”) and “Literarisches Eigentum. Zur Ethik geistiger
Arbeit im digitalen Zeitalter” (“Literary Property. On the Ethics of Intellectual Work in the Digital Age”).</p>
<h3 id="kerstin"><strong>Kerstin Schuster</strong></h3>
<p>Having obtained a university degree in Romance Studies and Political Science, Kerstin Schuster worked in the bookselling trade. Since 1993 she is trading licenses for the international market. She has worked till 2001 for the literary agency Dr. Ray-Güde Martin, from 2001 until 2013 for the publishing house S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt, and since 2014 for the Droemer Knaur publishing group.</p>
<p>For many years now, Kerstin Schuster is also facilitating seminars on how to successfully offer and sell licenses in the international market.</p>
<h3 id="zakir"><strong>Zakir Thomas</strong></h3>
<p>Mr. Thomas is an expert in the field of intellectual property. He has served as a former Registrar of Copyright for the Government of India, and as a project director of the Open Source Drug Discovery Initiative under the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (a premier R&D org). His expertise spans across copyright, open source innovation, neglected diseases and innovation ecosystem in science and technology in India.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/seminar-on-rethinking-copyright-and-licensing-for-digital-publishing-today-delhi-jan-23-2017'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/seminar-on-rethinking-copyright-and-licensing-for-digital-publishing-today-delhi-jan-23-2017</a>
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No publishersinhaCopyrightLicenseAccess to KnowledgeDigital PublishingDigital Scholarship2017-01-21T14:51:56ZEventWikipedia WikiMeetup at Bangalore
https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikipedia-wikimeetup-at-bangalore
<b>Bangalore based Wikipedians will gather for a meeting at the Centre for Internet and Society on Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 3.00 p.m.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Anyone interested in Wikipedia (user, contributor or curious about it). Wikipedians from any part of India or the world and anyone who is interested in Wikipedia! Meetup is open to members of all Wikimedia projects and Wikipedians from all languages. All are welcome, and we are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikipedia-wikimeetup-at-bangalore'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/wikipedia-wikimeetup-at-bangalore</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaEvent2016-08-12T13:31:04ZEventTools orientation session for Telugu Wikimedians of Hyderabad
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/tools-orientation-session-for-telugu-wikimedians-of-hyderabad
<b>A tools orientation session is being organised on July 10 at Hyderabad during the regular monthly meetup. Telugu Wikimedians who would be interested to learn about advanced editing tools like citation templates and Twinkle are welcome to join.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/tools-orientation-session-for-telugu-wikimedians-of-hyderabad'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/tools-orientation-session-for-telugu-wikimedians-of-hyderabad</a>
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No publisherPavan Santhosh S.CIS-A2KWikipediaTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-08-17T14:35:54ZEventWikipedia edit-a-thon at TEDSummit 2016, Banff, Canada
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-tedsummit-2016-banff-canada
<b>The TEDSummit 2016, an annual conference of the TED community, is taking place during June 26-30, 2016 at Banff, Canada. Wikimedians Netha Hussain, Ayyappadas along with Abhinav Garule, Programme Associate, CIS-A2K will be conducting a 90-minute long workshop to educate the participants through Wikipedia's guidelines and help them write their first articles.</b>
<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-d0e3a2f8-487a-1e52-e7fb-8311e3eddffd">A list of articles have been suggested in the event page that participants can create. They can also play with a mock article. Please note, this is an invite-only event and only the conference participants that have registered beforehand can attend this edit-a-thon.</span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-tedsummit-2016-banff-canada'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-at-tedsummit-2016-banff-canada</a>
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No publishergaruleWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-06-13T06:44:49ZEventTrain the Trainer 2016
https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/train-the-trainer-2016
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) team is organizing the Train the Trainer programme at its office in Bengaluru from June 15 to 17, 2016. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">After two successful iterations of Train the Trainer in 2013 and 2015, CIS-A2K is planning to organize the third iteration of the program. The exact dates and venue of the event have not been decided still, but like our previous iterations, this year also be a 3-days' residential program.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">What's new in TTT 2016</h3>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Extensive feedback gathering:</strong> The planning of TTT 2016 started in mid-April when we started contacting TTT 2015 participants for their ideas and suggestions to design this year's Train-the-Trainer program. We asked them a number of questions such as "what could be improved in the last TTT?, how can be improve this year's TTT etc." We'll reach mailing lists and village pumps for for further inputs. Based on all these suggestions and feedback, this year's TTT will be designed.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><strong>MWT session:</strong> Based on the feedback we have received, it seems the participants are interested to learn some topics which were previously discussed during MWT. So, MWT sessions many be included in this year's program.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Registration</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><strong>Note:</strong> Participants will be selected based on their on wiki and off wiki activities and their responses to the questions asked in the Google form. In order to fulfil this objectives, preference will be given to Wikimedians who are applying for the first time.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Please <strong><a class="text external" rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AmbA609Foy5gNLRw1SgK4r0YF8yFwcLLhNdvvrpC1z0/viewform"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">fill this form</span></a></strong> to apply to join this year's Train-the-Trainer event. Please write your answers in details. We may contact you if we need further details.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Clarification</dt></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the Google form above you'll find these terms</p>
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<li><strong>Pre-event works:</strong> The exact pre-event work has not been fixed yet, but it may something like preparing presentation or draft-plan to improve your Wikiprojects.</li>
<li><strong>Post-event works:</strong> Post-TTT you'll work to execute your plans, and conduct outreach activities. You will be in touch with CIS-A2K and share your progress and activities.</li>
</ul>
<p>Program schedule has not been prepared yet. We expect to announce the program schedule at least 7 days before the event.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/train-the-trainer-2016'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/train-the-trainer-2016</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KEventAccess to Knowledge2016-05-28T07:29:23ZEventTulu Wikipedia Editathon to Improve Quality of Articles in Tulu Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/tulu-wikipedia-editathon-to-improve-quality-of-articles-in-tulu-wikipedia
<b>The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) organized a Wikipedia editathon for improving Tulu Wikipedia. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted the sessions.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Dr. Kishore Kumar Rai, Principal of Shri Ramakrishna PU College, who himself is an active Tulu and Kannada Wikipedian provided the lab for this activity. Any Wikipedian (Tulu/Kannada) can walk-in and make use of the lab to edit Wikipedia. He has also procured more than 100 Tulu books from Tulu Sahitya Academy which will be kept there for reference.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Agenda</h3>
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<li>Improve the quality of articles in Tulu Wikipedia</li>
<li>Increase the length of short articles</li>
<li>Add inter-wiki links</li>
<li>Add references</li>
<li>Add images</li>
<li>Add categories</li>
<li>Improve language</li>
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<p>The event will continue in June. More details can be <a class="external-link" href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tcy/ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಕಜ್ಜಕೊಟ್ಯ-೮">accessed here</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/tulu-wikipedia-editathon-to-improve-quality-of-articles-in-tulu-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/tulu-wikipedia-editathon-to-improve-quality-of-articles-in-tulu-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KEventAccess to KnowledgeTulu Wikipedia2016-05-07T15:43:42ZEventIP Meetup #02: Prabir Purkayastha on the CRI Guidelines and software patenting in India
https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/ip-meetup-02-prabir-purkayastha-on-the-cri-guidelines-and-software-patenting-in-india
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<h3>Prabir Purkayastha will deliver a short talk on what the Guidelines on Computer Related Inventions mean for software patenting, and the way forward, on Sunday, March 20th, 2016 at the CIS Delhi office, at 4 p.m. <br /></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">We would like to invite you to the second session of a series of IP focused meetups. The meetups are
aimed at bringing folks together working within or interested in IP law,
to discuss recent developments with reference to access to knowledge,
climate change, health, trade, etc.</p>
<p>The talk will be followed by a round of discussion, after which the
floor will be thrown open for other pressing/relevant IP developments.</p>
<p>Please join us for tea and refreshments at 3.30 pm.</p>
<p>Please RSVP by dropping a line at <a class="mail-link" href="mailto:anubha@cis-india.org">anubha@cis-india.org</a>.</p>
<p><strong>CIS Delhi's location on Google Maps: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/nPKkoQFhRSt">https://goo.gl/maps/nPKkoQFhRSt</a></strong></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/ip-meetup-02-prabir-purkayastha-on-the-cri-guidelines-and-software-patenting-in-india'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/events/ip-meetup-02-prabir-purkayastha-on-the-cri-guidelines-and-software-patenting-in-india</a>
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No publishersinhaOpen SourceAccess to KnowledgeSoftware PatentsIntellectual Property RightsFOSS2016-03-29T17:06:13ZEventDigitisation sprint at Andhra Loyola College Vijayawada to bring more books on Telugu Wikisource
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/digitisation-sprint-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada-to-bring-more-books-on-telugu-wikisource
<b>This 12th, A digitisation sprint is being organised for student Wikipedians of Andhra Loyola College Vijayawada. Students will learn about scanning books, will use OCR engine and digitise books on Telugu Wikisource. The event is organised by CIS-A2K where Telugu Wikimedian Viswanadh will be participating to mentor the new Wikimedians.</b>
<p> Telugu Wikisource, a free online library in Telugu-language. Currently there are about 8 volunteers, known as Wikisourcers, who find Telugu-language text that are available under free licenses like Public Domain or Creative Commons licenses, digitise them and make the books available on the project. Their effort has brought about 29,680 pages of digitised text from old and new published works of different genres ranging from popular science and religious literature to literary contributions of notable authors of the states of Andhra and Telengana.</p>
<p>35 student Wikipedians of the Andhra Loyola College will be participating in this event and will learn about scanning of books, converting text from scanned images using OCR engine and digitising books on Telugu Wikisource by typing and proof-reading. At least 150-200 folios are expected to be digitized on Telugu Wikisource. Most importantly, this activity will also help bring 5-10 new Wikisourcers to Telugu Wikisource. As this is just a two-day long event, more follow up sessions will be conducted over time with the same set of students to help them learn better about the technical process involved and overall digitisation.This is the first of its kind in the institution where the students will not just learn about digitisation of books but will participate in a live contribution and make more Telugu books available online.</p>
<p class="callout">"Introducing Student Wikisourcers to Telugu Wikisource will help in developing the project. Also this is a very timely activity because even few days delay might result in really low participation as exams are coming up. "<br />— Viswanadh (User:విశ్వనాధ్.బి.కె.) ,Telugu Wikipedian (comment from Telugu Wikipedia Village Pump)</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/digitisation-sprint-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada-to-bring-more-books-on-telugu-wikisource'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/digitisation-sprint-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada-to-bring-more-books-on-telugu-wikisource</a>
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No publisherPavan SanthoshTelugu WikisourceCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-12T11:29:10ZEvent