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Wikipedia workshop at Sinhgad Institute of Technology and Science, Pune
by Abhinav Garule — published Oct 07, 2015 — last modified Feb 26, 2016 10:10 AM — filed under: , , ,
The goal of this Wikipedia workshop is to increase awareness about Wikipedia and equip its participants with the rudiments of contributing to Wikipedia, and to introduce it as a concept to them. The participants will be learn about Wikipedia and its sister projects. Furthermore, they will be encouraged to contribute in these projects.
Located in Openness / Events
The Intellects holds 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 26, 2016 — last modified Feb 27, 2016 05:35 AM — filed under: , ,
The Intellects, a Delhi-based progressive forum of intellectuals, held the 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language at the India International Centre in New Delhi today.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Blog Entry Cultural institution AKA GLAM for more OER
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 27, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
My submission titled "Cultural institution AKA GLAM for more OER" under the theme of "Innovative approaches to opening up cultural heritage collections for education" has been selected for the OER16 conference to be held in Edinburg, Scotland from 19 to 20 April 2016.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
International Mother Language Day
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 27, 2016 — filed under: , ,
On 21 February 2016, Eenadu published a special story on the occasion of International Mother language day in Hyderabad edition. The special story covered Wikipedians effort to develop Encyclopedic content online and also about multi-lingual (English-Telugu) Wikipedians meetup organized in December 2015.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Blog Entry This little innovation is bringing a revolution in the Odia language
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 03, 2016 — last modified Feb 27, 2016 07:33 AM — filed under: , ,
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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Wikimedia Education SAARC conference
by Admin — published Apr 25, 2019 — last modified Jun 22, 2019 09:30 AM — filed under: , ,
Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) happy to announce that, Wikimedia Education SAARC conference 2019 programme submissions (proposals) are open from today, 25 April 2019. Deadline for applying for scholarship is 20 May 2019. The conference organized by Christ University in association with CIS-A2K will be held from 20 - 22 June 2019 at Christ University in Bengaluru. The event is being co-organized by Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia & Education User Group.
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Blog Entry Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program/Report
by Gopala Krishna A — published Apr 05, 2019 — last modified May 01, 2019 05:04 AM — filed under: , , ,
CIS-A2K team submitted Project Tiger final report.
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WIPO Regional Seminar on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions
by Admin — published Apr 30, 2019 — last modified May 04, 2019 02:23 AM — filed under: ,
Anubha Sinha participated in the WIPO “Regional Seminar for the Asia Pacific Group on Libraries, Archives, Museums and Educational & Research Institutions in the Field of Copyright”, which was held on April 29 and 30, 2019, in Singapore. The event was co-organized by Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, Singapore Cooperation Programme and WIPO.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Ahmedabad Wikisource Workshop
by Admin — published May 13, 2019 — filed under: ,
Report of the Ahmedabad Wikisource workshop published in Vishwavihar.
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Blog Entry CIS-A2K Communication Officer position
by Tito Dutta — published May 19, 2019 — last modified Jun 04, 2019 06:45 AM — filed under: ,
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is seeking applications only from prospective candidates who identify themselves as women, for the position of Programme Officer (Communications, the position is also known as Communication Officer), to support its Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Programme. The job application is open to women only because we feel that a woman communications person will contribute more towards bridging the gender gap in the Wikimedia movement by emphasising on gender-sensitive communication apart from contributing internally for bringing a gender balance in the team.
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