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Blog Entry A Wikipedia Workshop at SRM University, Chennai
by Noopur Raval — published Dec 27, 2012 — filed under: , , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi in association with Metawings Institute organized a one-day workshop on contributing to Wikipedia at SRM University on December 17, 2012. About 40 students from different engineering colleges in Chennai participated in the workshop. Metawings coordinated for the logistics and for spreading the word among the students.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Access to Knowledge Report — September to December 2012
by Noopur Raval — published Jan 31, 2013 — filed under: , , ,
This post provides an overview of the activities done by the Access to Knowledge team under the grant provided by the Wikimedia Foundation from September 2012 to December 2012.
Located in Openness / Blog
Alternate Visions: Accessing Leisure Through Interfaces
by Noopur Raval — published Feb 13, 2012 — last modified Feb 18, 2012 03:18 PM — filed under:
Located in Digital Natives / Video Contest / Entries
Blog Entry Fifty-fourth Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore
by Noopur Raval — published Feb 28, 2013 — last modified Mar 06, 2013 09:09 AM — filed under: , , ,
The 54th Wikimedia meet-up in Bangalore was held at the Indian Institute of Management on February 25, 2013. The event was planned and organized by Radhakrishna Arvapally, SIG (Special Interest Group) Chair, Bangalore (a part of the Wikimedia India Chapter) with support from Solutions IQ, Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Gujarat Wikipedia Education Program: Rajkot
by Noopur Raval — published Oct 31, 2012 — last modified Oct 31, 2012 08:17 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
This report analyses a series of meetings and workshops held in Rajkot, a city in Gujarat, India during the month of October 2012.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry 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: , , ,
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.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry New Avenues: Media Wiki Groups
by Noopur Raval — published Dec 27, 2012 — last modified Jan 05, 2013 01:46 AM — filed under: , , ,
This blog post is a brief recap and snippets of my conversation with Harsh Kothari, a volunteer on Gujarati Wikipedia on what we've been doing to help with MediaWiki groups.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Open Education Week: Interview with Subhashish Panigrahi
by Noopur Raval — published Mar 14, 2014 — last modified Apr 04, 2014 09:20 AM — filed under: , , ,
Noopur Raval interviewed Subhashish Panigrahi from the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team about sharing information resources and attribution in academia.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Thinking Digital Beyond Tools: Interview with Dr. Nishant Shah
by Noopur Raval — published Sep 12, 2013 — filed under:
Dr. Nishant Shah is the co-founder and Research Director at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India. He is an International Tandem Partner at the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University, Germany and a Knowledge Partner with the Hivos Knowledge Programme, The Netherlands. He is committed to producing infrastructure, frameworks and collaborations in the global south to understand and analyse the ways in which the emergence of digital technologies have shaped the contemporary social, political and cultural milieu.
Located in RAW / Digital Humanities
File To be Counted When They Count You
by Noopur Raval — published Feb 01, 2022
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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfiguration of social processes and structures through the internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa.

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