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Van Bodh Workshop for content development on Forest Resources at Gadchiroli
by Admin — published Nov 06, 2018 — filed under: , , , ,
CIS-A2K has collaborated with Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI) to facilitate development of Open knowledge resources on Community Forest Resource and content development in Wikimedia projects with community participation. These contents will become a part of "Van Bodh Knowledge repository".
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Blog Entry What Indian Language Wikipedias can do for Greater Open Access in India
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 22, 2016 — filed under: , , , ,
The number of internet users in India was expected to reach 460 million by 2015, as the growth in the previous year was 49 percent. The total number of users for Hindi content alone reached about 60 million last year.
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Why aren’t Indians using Wikipedia to hold the government to account?
by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 14, 2016 — filed under: , ,
Despite its popularity, the site's benefits are going unutilised.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Blog Entry Why It's Essential To Grow Indian-Language Wikipedias
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jan 26, 2016 — last modified May 28, 2016 06:52 AM — filed under: , , ,
On 15 January, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia celebrated its 15th birthday, meeting this milestone with 36 million articles in more than 290 languages (the English-language Wikipedia alone has crossed the 5-million article mark). But here I want to address some major questions that we need to ask as Indians.
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Blog Entry Wiki Loves Mayabazaar
by Pavan Santhosh — published May 01, 2017 — last modified Jun 07, 2017 09:24 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
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WikiConference India 2016
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 07, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
WikiConference India 2016 is an event to provide a common platform for all Wikimedians in India to meet and share their views, discuss challenges and exchange useful tips, best practices and other information. The Conference is open for participation of Wikimedians from all nations, and will be taking place on the 5th, 6th, and 7th of August 2016 at Chandigarh.
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WikiConference India 2016 Starts Friday in Chandigarh
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 05, 2016 — filed under: , ,
India, a key growth area for Wikipedia, is gearing up for a national conference "for Wikimedians in India to meet and share their views, discuss challenges and exchange useful tips, best practices and other information".
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Blog Entry WikiConference India 2016 Submission: Gender Gap in Indian Language Wikipedias – Projects, Outreach and Outcome
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Aug 17, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
India is not much different from the global statistics when it comes to gender gap issues in Wikipedia. Indian language Wikipedias are known to have similar ratio of male to female editors.
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Blog Entry WikiConference India 2016 Submission: How to better tell your Wikimedia Community Story using Media as a Tool
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 17, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
The Wikimedia community has constantly struggled to a) reach out to masses and tell them about their contribution, and motivate people to contribute to the Wikimedia projects. Media plays a very important role in spreading the word about Wikimedia projects and the contributor community, and at times, encouraging the audience to contribute.
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Blog Entry WikiConference India 2016 Submission: We, Men, Women: Collective Learning in Bridging Indic Wikipedia Gender Gaps
by Elisachang — published Aug 17, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
There is no denying that non-English Wikipedias are disproportionally underrepresented in scholarly focus despite the significant role of an open knowledge society can play in smaller linguistic groups – local collaboration and communication, knowledge dissemination, as well as preservation of local language resources.
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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfiguration of social processes and structures through the internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa.

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