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Tech-savvy students given tips to enter IT field: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 31, 2014 — last modified Feb 02, 2014 04:48 PM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Students from any academic background, but having computer knowledge and common sense, can land a job in the IT sector, said U B Pavanaja, programme officer (Indian languages) at Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore).
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Odia Wikipedia: Three Years of Active Contributions Gives Life to a Ten Year Old Project: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jan 31, 2014 — last modified Feb 04, 2014 08:56 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Odia Wikipedia has carved its mark as the largest online encyclopedia in Odia language that is edited by a volunteer editor community.
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Odia Wikipedia (Coverage in Sanchar): by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 31, 2014 — last modified Feb 04, 2014 07:38 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Openness
Sanchar published about Odia Wikipedia in their edition on January 31. Subhashish Panigrahi is quoted.
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Access to Knowledge: by Anirudh Sridhar — published Jan 31, 2014 — last modified May 22, 2014 04:48 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge
Unit 4 of Module 2 discusses the right to access knowledge, patents and copyright. There is also a case study of Oxbridge Textbooks.
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The Game of IPR: Insights from the 6th Global Intellectual Property Convention in Hyderabad: by Samantha Cassar — published Jan 31, 2014 — last modified Jan 31, 2014 09:56 AM — filed under: Patents, Intellectual Property Rights, Copyright, Access to Knowledge
IP practitioners and IP creators were among the 1700 participants to gather at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre earlier this month. Here, CIS had the opportunity of listening in on perspectives around the “Optimization of economic value of innovation & IPR in the global market” while attending numerous talks and sessions that were held over the course of the convention’s three days.
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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — January 2014: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 31, 2014 — last modified Jul 04, 2014 05:55 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) newsletter for the month of January 2014:
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Open Letter to the Vatican: Request for Holy See to Comment on IPR: by Samantha Cassar — published Jan 31, 2014 — last modified Jan 31, 2014 07:14 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Copyright, Public Accountability, Intellectual Property Rights, Open Content
Due to the Holy See’s demonstrated pro-access position to medicines and published materials for persons with disabilities, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) requested for His Excellency, Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, to also consider copyrights, patents or IPR more generally, as the Holy See’s Permanent Observer at WIPO. We strongly encourage other organizations and civil society groups to modify this letter, as needed, and to contact the Holy See Mission to the United Nations (and WIPO) in Geneva in order to help us prompt His Excellency to contribute to the international dialogue on IPR.
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Odia Wikipedia 10th anniversary at Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 30, 2014 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Openness, Event
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team along with the Odia Wikipedia community invite you to the 10th anniversary of Odia Wikipedia at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication in Dhenkanal on January 29, 2014 from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
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Odia Wikipedia's 10th anniversary at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), Bhubaneswar: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 30, 2014 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Event
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge along with the Odia Wikipedia community invite you to the tenth anniversary celebrations of Odia Wikipedia t Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Bhubaneswar on January 28, 2014 from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
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January 2014 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 30, 2014 — last modified Apr 07, 2014 07:09 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Digital Humanities, Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) welcomes you to the first issue of its newsletter (January) for the year 2014:
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