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December 2015 Bulletin
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 31, 2015
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last modified
Jan 13, 2016 02:07 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Researchers at Work
Our newsletter for the month of December 2015 is below.
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Newsletters
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Delhi Declaration on Open Access
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by
Admin
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published
Feb 26, 2018
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Access
Open Access India recently released a statement to promote openness in science and research communities. CIS contributed to the text and introduced it to the participants of OpenCon 2018, Delhi.
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Openness
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News & Media
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Delhi meet focuses on Bhagabat Tungi revival
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 26, 2014
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last modified
May 06, 2014 05:47 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The Intellects, a Delhi based organisation of Odia intellectuals, and Shree Jagannath Mandir and Odisha Art and Cultural Center held a seminar on “Relevance of Bhagabat Tungi in the evolution of Odia language from Buddha era to digital age” on the occasion of one year celebration its mission ‘Asa Sikhiba Amari Bhasa’. The initiative is to spread and promote Odia language and literature in New Delhi.
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News & Media
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Design and the Open Knowledge Movement
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by
Saumyaa Naidu
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published
Mar 31, 2019
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last modified
Apr 01, 2019 12:13 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Featured,
Design,
Openness,
Education,
Homepage
With the objective of connecting the open knowledge movement with design, the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society co-organised the Wikigraphists Bootcamp India 2018 with the Wikimedia Foundation during September 28-30, 2018 in New Delhi. The event was held at the School of Design at Ambedkar University Delhi. As part of the bootcamp, a panel discussion was held in order to bring together design practitioners, educators, open knowledge contributors, and design students to explore how design and open knowledge communities can engage with each other. In this post, Saumyaa Naidu shares the learnings from the panel discussion aimed at exploring the potential collaborations between design and the open knowledge movement.
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Developing Open Educational Resources in Indian Languages
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by
Sohnee Harshey*
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Jun 02, 2016
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last modified
Jun 10, 2016 01:50 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Malayalam Wikipedia,
Marathi Wikipedia,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Hindi Wikipedia
The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education (CILHE), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), in collaboration with the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), has been involved in organising workshops on developing open educational resources (OER) in Indian languages with undergraduate and postgraduate students across various partner institutions. The objective of these workshops is to introduce students to: a) tools of collaborative knowledge production on the Internet, and b) methods for generating new online content in Indian languages.
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Openness
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Digital Futures of Indian Languages - Notes from the Consultation
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Tejaswini Niranjana
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Jan 12, 2016
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last modified
Jan 15, 2016 05:55 AM
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CIS-A2K,
Language,
CDIF,
Learning,
Indic Computing,
Researchers at Work
A consultation on 'digital futures of Indian languages' was held at the CIS office in Bangalore on December 12, 2015, to generate ideas and structure the Indian languages focus area of the CSCS Digital Innovation Fund (CDIF). It was led by Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), and Tanveer Hasan, A2K programme at CIS; and was supported by CDIF. Here are the notes from the Consultation.
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Digitize any Book in the Public Domain
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Mar 27, 2014
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last modified
Apr 03, 2014 08:41 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The article is about a mass scale digitization project for Kannada WikiSource by two Wikipedians.
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Blog
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Doctors and Translators Are Working Together to Bridge Wikipedia's Medical Language Gap
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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Jul 28, 2014
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last modified
Aug 04, 2014 03:29 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
I interviewed Wikimedian User:CFCF who is managing the entire project to understand how it is going to work and wrote on Global Voices' Rising Voices about it.
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Blog
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Documentation and Wikipedia Contribution — A One Day Workshop
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Nov 12, 2013
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness,
Event
On November 14, the CIS-A2K team is organizing a one day orientation workshop on 'Documentation and Wikipedia Contribution' at the Kalinga Institute of Social Studies (KISS), Bhubaneswar from 10.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
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Events
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Eight Challenges Indian-Language Wikipedias Need to Overcome
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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Apr 30, 2016
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 05:09 PM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge
Even after a decade of existence, Indian language Wikipedias are not yet known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia, the largest available encyclopedia made in the human history, is what it is today because of the hundreds and thousands of volunteer editors.
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