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This little innovation is bringing a revolution in the Odia language
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Feb 03, 2016
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Feb 27, 2016 07:33 AM
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CIS-A2K,
Odia Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Depicting human language within computing environments has always been a challenge: a given language's script and alphabet needs to be mapped to a coding system that a computer can process digitally. This is done by way of an encoding system that basically maps each character to a unique numeric code.
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Books and More are Relicensed to Creative Commons
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
May 02, 2014
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last modified
May 28, 2014 06:29 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
This blog post is cross-posted from Opensource.com. It was published on May 2, 2014.
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South Asia's Largest Wikimedia Conference Kicks Off in India
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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Aug 08, 2016
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Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Wiki Conference India 2016, the largest gathering of the contributors of Wikipedia (the multilingual online encyclopaedia) and its sister projects called Wikimedia projects, begins August 5 in Landran, in the Indian state of Punjab.
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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — October 2013
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Oct 31, 2013
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Jan 04, 2014 12:04 PM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) newsletter for the month of October 2013:
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What Indian Language Wikipedias can do for Greater Open Access in India
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Oct 22, 2016
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CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Open Access
The number of internet users in India was expected to reach 460 million by 2015, as the growth in the previous year was 49 percent. The total number of users for Hindi content alone reached about 60 million last year.
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Indians Ask: Is Visiting a Torrent Site Really A Crime?
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Sep 06, 2016
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Social Media,
Internet Governance
India has banned various large-scale torrent sites for a long time — this is old news. But under a new federal policy in India, one can be jailed for three years and fined 300,000 Indian Rupees (~US $4464) for downloading content on any of these blocked websites.
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Blog
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Wikimania 2013: Wikipedians represent Indian Languages in Hong Kong
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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Aug 19, 2013
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last modified
Sep 13, 2013 06:03 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Workshop,
Openness
The 7th, 8th and 9th of August 2013 saw over 600 Wikipedians across the world participating Wikimania at Hong Kong. The three day annual international conference for users and contributors of Wikipedia brought many debates about open educational research, open source technologies, gender gap, documenting the history of mankind in a free and open platform like Wikipedia and its sister sites in collaboration with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums and all of these in 286 world languages. More and more volunteers are joining this movement and it is expanding the media of accessing and disseminating knowledge.
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September 2013 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 30, 2013
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last modified
Oct 24, 2013 06:48 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Openness,
Researchers at Work
Our newsletter for the month of September 2013 can be accessed below.
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June 2015 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Jun 30, 2015
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last modified
Sep 13, 2015 04:10 PM
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filed under:
Accessibility
Newsletter for the month of June.
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It's September, and That Means It's Time for Software Freedom Day
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 17, 2016
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Access to Knowledge,
FLOSS,
Openness,
FOSS
Software Freedom Day (SFD), which celebrates the use of free and open software, is just around the corner on September 17. When the day first started in 2004, only 12 teams from different places joined, but it has since grown to include hundreds registered events around the world, depending on the year.
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