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Comments on the Draft Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2019 concerning Statutory Licensing: by Anubha Sinha — published Jul 11, 2019 — last modified Jul 11, 2019 07:04 AM — filed under: License, Broadcasting, Copyright, Access to Knowledge
The Centre for Internet & Society gave its comments on the proposed rules 29,30,31 of the Draft Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2019. The comments were made in response to Notification G.S.R 393(E) published in the Gazette of India on May 30, 2019.
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The Knowledge Base is Liberated: by Subodh Kulkarni and Madhav Gadgil — published Aug 05, 2019 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
The article published in Sunday supplement of Loksatta newspaper of Express group, written jointly by Madhav Gadgil & Subodh Kulkarni summarises - the status of searchable open knowledge available on web, eagerness of youth generation across the social strata to access knowledge on new gadgets and the approaches to build resources in Marathi on web harnessing potential of Wikimedia projects. It also elaborates major three breakthroughs – Free & open source software movement, Unicode revolution and development of collaborative knowledge building and sharing free platforms like Wikimedia projects easily accessible to people in their own languages.
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# NAMA Community Meet | Global Payments Ecosystem: by Admin — published Aug 19, 2019 — filed under: Access to Knowledge
Anubha Sinha attended the event organized by Medianama in Delhi on July 31, 2019.
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India's Ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty Celebrated; Accessible Books Consortium Launched: by Nehaa Chaudhari — published Jul 01, 2014 — last modified Jul 01, 2014 11:09 AM — filed under: Featured, Homepage, Accessibility, Access to Knowledge
On Day 1 of the 28th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“SCCR”), the WIPO organized an event to mark India’s ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled, 2013 (“Marrakesh Treaty”), and to launch the Accessible Books Consortium (“ABC”).
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An Article on Kannada Wikipedian H R Lakshmivenkatesh: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 31, 2014 — last modified Jul 03, 2014 08:28 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Kannada Wikipedia
Karnataka Sangha Mumbai published an article on Kannada Wikipedian H.R.Lakshmivenkatesh in its March 2014 edition.
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ವಿಕಿಪಿಡಿಯಾಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 16, 2014 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Kannada Wikipedia
ಮೈಸೂರು ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾನಿಲಯವು ಇದೀಗ ವಿಕಿಪಿಡಿಯಾದಲ್ಲೂ ಹೆಸರು ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಹಲವಾರು ವಿದ್ವಾಂಸರ ಅವಿರತ ಶ್ರಮದಿಂದ ರೂಪುಗೊಂಡಿರುವ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶಗಳು ವಿಕಿಪಿಡಿಯಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಲಭ್ಯವಾಗುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡುವಲ್ಲಿ ವಿವಿ ಯಶಸ್ವಿಯಾಗಿದೆ.
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Information & Communication Technology in Making a Healthy Information Society with special reference to use of ICTS in Educational Technology: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 18, 2014 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Internet Governance, Openness, Information Technology, ICT
The Department of Computer Science, Andhra Loyola College in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science, Krishna University will be organizing a UGC-sponsored National Seminar on August 11 and 12, 2014 at Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada.
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Telugu Wikipedia struggles to stay afloat: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 28, 2014 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
For a language that is spoken by 10 crore people, content is sparse.
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The joys of being a Wikipedian: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 30, 2014 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Radha Krishna, an engineer, had always wanted to share information online so that people who wanted to learn more could just log in and benefit by reading his articles. Eight years ago he started his own website for this very purpose. But he found it hard to maintain the site. He then chanced upon Wikipedia, the largest open-source encyclopedia, which was then just becoming popular in the country.
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Kannada Wikipedia Presentation for Kannada Science Writers: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 31, 2014 — last modified Aug 06, 2014 10:15 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Kannada Wikipedia
The following is the media coverage for the Kannada Wikipedia presentation at the Central University at Gulbarga on July 30,2014, in Gulbarga edition of Prajavani Kannada daily, dated July 31.
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