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Wikipedia Meet-up in TERI: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 21, 2010 — last modified Sep 22, 2011 12:21 PM — filed under: Openness, Meeting
The Wikipedia Bangalore meet-up is a monthly get-together of Wikipedians (contributors and users) to meet, discuss, share experiences, reach out and advocate for Wikipedia and Wikimedia. Danese Cooper, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation, Alolita Sharma, Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation, Erik Möller, Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation and Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board Member attended the meeting. The Centre for Internet and Society made arrangements for this event.
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Call for Comments for Report on Open Government Data in India: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 24, 2010 — last modified Mar 01, 2013 05:50 AM — filed under: Open Data, Featured, Openness
The Centre for Internet & Society is pleased to announce a public call for comments on the Report on Open Government Data in India prepared by Glover Wright, Pranesh Prakash, Sunil Abraham and Nishant Shah.
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Towards Open and Equitable Access to Research and Knowledge for Development: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 31, 2011 — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:04 AM — filed under: Open Access
There is growing recognition that the capacity to conduct research and to share the resulting knowledge is fundamental to all aspects of human development, from improving health care delivery to increasing food security, and from enhancing education to stronger evidence-based policy making. This article by Leslie Chan, Barbara Kirsop and Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam was published in PLoS (Public Library of Science) on March 29, 2011.
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E-Governance Interoperability Framework — Meeting in Iraq: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 29, 2011 — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:04 AM — filed under: Openness
A meeting to create a plan of action for the development of e-Governance Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) in Iraq and include formulation of an e-GIF policy and technical document within the larger framework of public sector modernization, was held from 25 to 27 January 2011. Sunil Abraham was the main resource person for this meeting.
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Gujarati Wikipedia Article Competition: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 03, 2012
PDF in Gujarati about the Wikipedia article competition.
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Open access to research discussed at SDM-IMD: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 30, 2012 — last modified Jan 02, 2013 03:57 AM
Published in Star of Mysore on December 23, 2012.
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Open Access Champion Leslie Chan Delivers Five Talks in India: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 30, 2012 — last modified Jan 02, 2013 05:35 AM — filed under: Openness
Professor Leslie Chan, a champion of Open Access (OA) and Associate Director of the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough visited Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore in December 2012 for a series of lectures. Well known advocate for OA in India and the developing world, Professor Subbiah Arunachalam, accompanied him on these tours.
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I & P Partners Meeting at Rio: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 07, 2013
Sunil Abraham made a presentation on Open Business and IP.
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Wikimedia Bangalore Meetup @ Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 14, 2013 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Event
The Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet & Society in partnership with Wikispeed and NASSCOM is organizing meetup at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore on February 25, 2013 at 2.00 p.m. Vishnu Vardhan will speak on the Access to Knowledge program.
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Pavanaja's Profile: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 05, 2013 — last modified Nov 20, 2013 09:44 AM
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