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April 2012 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 07, 2012 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Research, Openness
In this issue of our newsletter, we bring you updates of our latest research, event reports, videos, news and media coverage during the month of April 2012:
Located in About Us / Newsletters
India's ‘Facebook ruling’ is another nail in the coffin of the MNO model: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 28, 2016 — last modified Feb 28, 2016 03:44 AM — filed under: Social Media, Telecom, Free Basics, TRAI, Internet Governance, Freedom of Speech and Expression
Ability to access 'net from mobe no longer considered a miracle.
Located in Telecom / News & Media
A Workshop on "Exploring the Internals of Mobile Technologies": by Jadine Lannon — published Oct 23, 2012 — last modified Oct 25, 2012 06:52 AM — filed under: Event Type, Workshop, Access to Knowledge
The Centre for Internet and Society invites all individuals interested in investigating and exploring the internal of the Mobile/Hardware Technologies and understanding of capabilities of mobile phones to join our workshop on Saturday, October 27, 2012, at the TERI Southern Regional Centre.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Events
Selection of Programme Officer — Pilot Projects, CIS-A2K: by Nitika Tandon — published Sep 10, 2013 — last modified Oct 30, 2013 06:07 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) opened applications for the post of Programme Officer, Pilot Projects for its Access to Knowledge (A2K) Programme on 17th April 2013. The vacancy and call for applications was shared on all Indian language mailing lists, city mailing lists as well as Village Pumps.
Located in Openness / Blog
Konkani Wikipedia in the making: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 30, 2013 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Konkani Wikipedia, Openness
Process of uploading the four volumes of Konkani encyclopaedia will be completed in six months’ time.
Located in News & Media
Archive and Access: The Inalienable Right to the Archives - Entering the Capital: by Rochelle Pinto — published Apr 18, 2009 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 04:42 AM — filed under: Archives
This entry complements the prior discussion by Aparna Balachandran of the Delhi State Archives and its status as a repository of records. Her discussion compares the place of the user and that of the document in the Delhi State Archives as opposed to in the National Archives. This post by Rochelle Pinto discusses questions relating to the National Archives of India and other archival entities.
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / We, the Cyborgs: Challenges for the Future of being Human
The Knowledge Base is Liberated: by Subodh Kulkarni and Madhav Gadgil — published Aug 05, 2019 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
The article published in Sunday supplement of Loksatta newspaper of Express group, written jointly by Madhav Gadgil & Subodh Kulkarni summarises - the status of searchable open knowledge available on web, eagerness of youth generation across the social strata to access knowledge on new gadgets and the approaches to build resources in Marathi on web harnessing potential of Wikimedia projects. It also elaborates major three breakthroughs – Free & open source software movement, Unicode revolution and development of collaborative knowledge building and sharing free platforms like Wikimedia projects easily accessible to people in their own languages.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Odia Language Classics could Now be Read from Phones, Tablets and of course from Computers!: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 04, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:12 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Odia Wikisource, Access to Knowledge, Open Access
Odia Wikisource, a sister project of Odia Wikipedia and a free online Odia-language library is celebrating its first anniversary in Bhubaneswar tomorrow. Available online at or.wikisource.org, the project finally went live in last year on October 20 after being incubated over two years. In a nutshell, it not just provides free and open access to readers to access text that are out of copyright or available under free license, but also allows them to contribute in either digitizing copyright-free text or correcting mistakes made by others.
Located in Openness / News & Media
open_standards-event_report_2019.pdf: by Karan Saini — published Aug 02, 2019
Located in Internet Governance / Resources
Teaching in the Age of Wikipedia: by T. Vishnu Vardhan — published Nov 22, 2014 — last modified Dec 28, 2014 04:04 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
This course is conceived by CIS-A2K. It is currently envisaged as an add-on Certificate Course jointly offered by CIS-A2K and the Nirmala Institute of Education (NIE)-a premier teacher training establishment in Goa, India.
Located in Openness / Blog

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