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Wikipedia: State of Tech — A Talk by Erik Moeller: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 02, 2012 — last modified Dec 18, 2012 06:51 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Lecture, Event Type
The Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore is hosting a talk by Erik Moeller, Vice President of Engineering and Product Development at the Wikimedia Foundation at its office in Bangalore on November 12, 2012, from 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m., followed by a lunch discussion.
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Gujarati Wikipedia Article Competition – 10 schools, 200 students, 20 articles on Gujarati Wikipedia: by Noopur Raval — published Oct 31, 2012 — last modified Nov 04, 2012 02:12 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
This was a competition to raise Wikipedia awareness and help students discover the joy of writing articles in their native language and an attempt to connect producers having knowledge in Gujarati to a wide audience of more than four lakh readers.
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Gujarat Wikipedia Education Program: Rajkot: by Noopur Raval — published Oct 31, 2012 — last modified Oct 31, 2012 08:17 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Video, Openness
This report analyses a series of meetings and workshops held in Rajkot, a city in Gujarat, India during the month of October 2012.
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First Pune Odia Wikipedia Workshop Organized!: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 31, 2012 — last modified Nov 30, 2012 12:44 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Video, Openness
The first Pune Odia Wikipedia workshop was organized in Pune on October 27, 2012. Subhashish Panigrahi recollects his experience about the events through this report.
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October 2012 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 31, 2012 — last modified Nov 08, 2012 11:42 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Researchers at Work
Welcome to the newsletter of October 2012 from the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). The present issue features an analysis by Ujwala Uppaluri of the Delhi High Court’s judgment in Super Cassettes v. MySpace, announcement of public call for comments for reports on “Banking and Accessibility in India” and “Making TV Accessible in India”, and updates on Indic languages.
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Super Cassettes v. MySpace: by Ujwala Uppaluri — published Oct 30, 2012 — last modified Oct 31, 2012 10:27 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, Intermediary Liability, Featured
The Delhi High Court’s judgment in Super Cassettes v. MySpace last July is worrying for a number of reasons. The court failed to appreciate the working of intermediaries online and disregard all pragmatic considerations involved. The consequences for free expression and particularly for file sharing by users of services online are especially unfavourable.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Phone Spreadsheet: by Jadine Lannon — published Oct 30, 2012 — filed under: Access to Knowledge
A documentation of the basic components and features of the mobile devices in a spreadsheet.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
The Hathitrust Judgment and its impact on TVI negotiations at WIPO: by Rahul Cherian — published Oct 30, 2012 — filed under: Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, WIPO
Those of you who have been following my earlier posts on the WIPO negotiations on the Treaty for the Visually Impaired will remember that one of the biggest concerns of the World Blind Union on the draft wording of the Treaty was with the definition of an “authorized entity” that can undertake conversion and distribution of accessible format copies.
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Malayalam Wikipedia Education Program: August to October Updates: by Shiju Alex — published Oct 29, 2012 — last modified Nov 09, 2012 06:18 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
Three months back, I wrote a blog post (http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/06/wikipedia-education-a-model-from-malayalam-wikipedia/) about the inauguration of the Wikipedia education program in Malayalam Wikipedia. This program is the first of its kind in an Indic language, and Malayalam community is doing the program in collaboration with the IT@School, a project of the Department of General Education, Government of Kerala, setup in 2001, to foster the IT education in schools.
Located in Openness / Blog
Bridging Gender Gap in Pune: WikiWomenDay 2012 Celebrated with Success!: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 29, 2012 — last modified Nov 10, 2012 08:30 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
A2K team members Subhashish Panigrahi and Noopur Raval participated in the "WikiWomenDay" organized by Wikipedia Club Pune at PAI International Learning Solutions, Azam Campus on October 28, 2012. Subhashish unfolds the happenings of this full day free fun workshop.
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