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Free Software: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 24, 2013 — last modified Jul 31, 2013 08:50 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
To spread awareness on free software and its philosophy, Free Software Movement of Karnataka (FSMK) in partnership with Jnana Vikas Institute of Technology, Bidadi, organized a 9-days workshop between July 20 and 28 at the Institute campus near Bidadi to focus on free software is real freedom to compute.
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Stress on posting articles on Kannada Wikipedia: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 02, 2013 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
A workshop to be held on CPDPS premises on August 6.
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ଓଡିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର କର୍ମଶାଳା ଅନୁଷ୍ଠିତ ହୋଇଯାଇଛି ବୀର ସୁରେନ୍ଦ୍ର ସାଏ ବୈଷୟିକ ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟ, ବୁର୍ଲାରେ: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 29, 2013 — last modified Aug 05, 2013 08:25 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Odishan.com covered the Wikipedia event organized at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla on July 26 and 27, 2013.
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Wikipedia boom in vernacular languages: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 01, 2013 — last modified Aug 12, 2013 04:29 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The number of Wikipedia entries in vernacular languages has grown substantially in the last eight months
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Institutional Partnership with Tribal Research & Training Institute: by Subodh Kulkarni — published Apr 18, 2018 — last modified May 07, 2018 04:29 PM — filed under: Wikimedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
CIS-A2K has been building partnerships with major state government departments in Maharashtra to promote free & open knowledge resources. One such effort resulted into official Govt.Resolution of Tribal Research & Training Institute under State Tribal Development department on Expert's Study Group Formation for developing Open Knowledge Platforms.
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Sambad Health and Women Edit-a-thon: by Admin — published Apr 15, 2018 — last modified May 07, 2018 04:34 PM — filed under: Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Sambad Health and Women Edit-a-thon was an offline edit-a-thon held in the month of April in collaboration with the Sambad media house, Odia Wikimedia User Group and the Center for Internet and Society.
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Comment: India's NTP 2018 gets digital makeover but needs complimentary policies: by Admin — published May 12, 2018 — filed under: Access to Knowledge
Criticism notwithstanding, Indian bureaucratic mandarins—babus as they are referred to in local lingo—do come up with draft policies that are contemporaneous, and at times when it’s least expected.
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Kannada Wikipedia Workshop, Mysore — Coverage in Prajavani: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 25, 2013 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
A Kannada Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet and Society in Mysore on March 24, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. Prajavani has published a report of the event on March 25, 2013.
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Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Vijaya Vani): by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 12, 2013 — last modified Sep 05, 2013 06:45 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
Prajavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.
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Konkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 12, 2013 — last modified Sep 12, 2013 06:09 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
St. Aloysius College is organizing a Konkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Beeri, Mangalore on September 13, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from the CIS-A2K team will participate in the event.
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