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Six Kannada encyclopaedias released
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Prasad Krishna
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Jul 18, 2014
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness,
Kannada Wikipedia
The first six online volumes of the University of Mysore's Kannada Encyclopaedia were launched on wikipedia's Creative Commons (CC) to mark the 'Muktha Jana Dina Dayu' (Dissemination of Knowledge) today.
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Software Day Info
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Prasad Krishna
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last modified
Aug 22, 2011 01:24 PM
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Conference,
Workshop,
Campaign,
Access to Knowledge
An information about the competition.
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Software Day Poster
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 22, 2011 01:24 PM
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Campaign,
Access to Knowledge
A poster of the event.
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Publications
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Software Freedom Day: The Importance of Free and Open Source Software
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 18, 2016
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Openness,
FOSS,
Access to Knowledge
Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 17 celebrates the liberty that free and open software and the philosophy of freedom brings into people’s lives. When SFD was started in 2004, only 12 teams from different places joined. It grew to a whooping 1000 by 2010 across the world. Explaining the aim of the celebration, SFD’s official website says,
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Software Freedom Pledge
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Pranesh Prakash
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published
Sep 25, 2015
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last modified
Sep 25, 2015 12:26 PM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Open Source,
Access to Knowledge,
FLOSS,
Open Content,
FOSS,
Event,
Technological Protection Measures
On September 19, 2015, celebrated globally as Software Freedom Day, a number of enthusiasts got together and collectively took a pledge.
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Software Patents and the Commons
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 22, 2011 01:23 PM
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Campaign,
Access to Knowledge
Seminar on Software Patents and the Commons in Delhi
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Soon, all 14 volumes of Kannada encyclopaedia to be online
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 16, 2014
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Four volumes have been uploaded so far on a pilot basis.
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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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published
Aug 08, 2016
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filed under:
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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Blogs
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South India Copyright Workshop
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by
Subodh Kulkarni
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published
Oct 21, 2018
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last modified
Nov 06, 2018 01:25 AM
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
CIS-A2K,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
A workshop on Copyright was organized by CIS-A2K at Hotel Bhagini Icon in Bengaluru from 19th to 21st October 2018. Seventeen members from 5 language communities (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Tulu) participated in the workshop. Yann Forget was the master trainer for the workshop.
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Blogs
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SpicyIP Tidbit: India ratifies the Marrakesh Treaty for the Visually Impaired
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 02, 2014
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filed under:
Accessibility,
Access to Knowledge
In an encouraging step towards promoting accessibility among the differently abled, India became the first country to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled, 2013.
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