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Blog Entry Wiki Women for Women Well-Being: An Initiative to Bridge the Gender Gap in the Wikimedia Community
by Nitesh Gill and Shruti Anandan — published Dec 28, 2020 — filed under:
WWWW is a project which focused on bridging the female related content gap on Indic Wikimedia communities. The idea of WWWW was given by Dr. Manavpreet Kaur, who worked with other women leaders from different communities and made a plan to engage with the editors for this project. CIS-A2K has started a series of interviews to introduce women with brilliant ideas and who have done contributions for Wikimedia and this is the first interview under the “Series of Interviews.” This Interview was done by Nitesh Gill.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Bridging the Gender Gap: A Report on Indian Language Wikimedia Communities
by Bhuvana Meenakshi — published Dec 31, 2020 — last modified May 15, 2021 12:26 PM — filed under: ,
This research study documents the gender gap and bias in Indian language Wikimedia projects and communities, with a focus on participation by and content related to women contributors across diverse Wikimedia platforms. The research was undertaken by Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran, with editorial oversight and support by Puthiya Purayil Sneha, and additional inputs from Ambika Tandon and Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry A Ludicrous Ban
by Achal Prabhala and Lawrence Liang — published Jun 04, 2012 — filed under: ,
Achal Prabhala and Lawrence Liang have written an article for the Open Magazine about the bizarre ways in which the Internet is regulated in 21st century India.
Located in Access to Knowledge
State Level Seminar on "Odia alphabet and order teaching in primary education"
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 30, 2014 — filed under: , , , ,
Subhashish Panigrahi participated in a state-level seminar on "Number of Odia characters and order teaching in primary education" (ପ୍ରଥମ ଶ୍ରେଣୀରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଅକ୍ଷର ସଂଖ୍ୟା ଓ କ୍ରମଶିକ୍ଷା) co-organised by Institute of Odia Studies and Research, and Odia Bhasa Pratisthan in Bhubaneswar on September 14, 2014.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Access to Knowledge Bulletin — July 2014
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 31, 2014 — last modified Oct 04, 2014 02:46 PM — filed under: , , ,
The Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) newsletter for the month of July 2014:
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Blog Entry CIS brings Nadustunna Charithra magazine under by CC BY SA licence
by Tanveer Hasan — published Sep 02, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:07 PM — filed under: , , ,
As a part of its content donation initiative, the Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) has brought all issues of Nadustunna Charithra magazine under Creative Common Licence.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Unable to read Odia on your android device? Don’t fret!
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 30, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:04 AM — filed under: , ,
If you get only boxes in place of Odia fonts in your Android device then it does not support the language. So you need to install Odia font in your smart phone; one way is to root it, but it’s not without cons.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Blog Entry WikipediansSpeak: Telugu Language Library Catalog Project Helps Wikipedia Grow
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 11, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:06 AM — filed under: , ,
In 2013, the interview project “WikipediansSpeak” was launched in response to observations that many noteworthy Wikimedians were being underrepresented both locally and globally. Not just them personally—their work, and the communities they represent, were also unknown to the Wikimedia community and the outside world.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry CIS-India Projects: Overlaps with Digital India
by Anubha Sinha — published Oct 11, 2015 — filed under:
This post documents the overlap of CIS India's work with the nine pillars of the Digital India campaign. The list reflects work completed/underway as of September 2015.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Comparison of National IPR Strategy September 2012, National IPR Strategy July 2014 and Draft National IP Policy, December 2014
by Amulya Purushothama — published Oct 15, 2015 — last modified Mar 08, 2016 01:49 AM — filed under: , ,
This is an analysis of the first draft of India's National IPR Policy with an earlier document "India's National IPR Strategy".
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
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