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Exploring Knowledge Repositories on Water Resources in India
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Subodh Kulkarni
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Oct 21, 2022
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
A2K Research,
Open Content
This research study explores knowledge repositories on water resources in India, with a focus on how the digital transition has impacted the process of creation & access to these resources and possible collaborations to build open digital repositories around water. The research was undertaken by Subodh Kulkarni, with editorial inputs by Puthiya Purayil Sneha, and Chiara Furtado. This is part of a series of short-term studies undertaken by the CIS-A2K team in 2021–2022.
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Infrastructural Needs of Indian Language Wikisource Projects
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Oct 21, 2022
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last modified
Oct 21, 2022 01:21 PM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
A2K Research,
Open Content
This is a short study on identifying the infrastructural gaps on Indian language Wikisource projects, and potential strategies to address the same. The study was undertaken by Jayantha Nath, Puthiya Purayil Sneha and Satdeep Gill, with writing and editorial oversight by Puthiya Purayil Sneha and an external review by Divyank Katira. This is part of a series of short-term studies undertaken by the CIS-A2K team in 2021-22.
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Mapping Content on Gender and Sexuality in Indian Languages
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by
Yashashwini Srinivas
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published
Oct 21, 2022
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last modified
Oct 21, 2022 01:03 PM
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CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
A2K Research,
Open Content
This research study explores content production processes on gender and sexuality in Indian languages, its digital documentation and factors that affect its availability and use on open access platforms. The research was undertaken by Yashashwini Srinivas, with editorial inputs by Puthiya Purayil Sneha, and Torsha Sarkar. This research was part of short-term studies undertaken at the CIS-A2K programme 2021-22.
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Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949
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by
Subodh Kulkarni
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published
Oct 11, 2022
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
GLAM,
Wikipedia,
A2K Research,
Open Content,
Openness
The digitization project of O Bharat, a historic biweekly published between 1912 to 1949 in Goa was completed through collaboration of different organizations. The trustees of Bharatkar Hegde Desai Trust initiated the project in collaboration with Marathi department of Goa University, Bhakti Dnyan Marg Sanstha and Goa Central Library. The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge Programme facilitated the project with technical and financial assistance. Two local students scanned 12000 pages in 8 days. The year wise volumes of O Bharat are now freely available on Wikimedia Commons in the form of archive.
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Digitisation of O Bharat, a bilingual biweekly published in Goa from 1912 to 1949
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by
Subodh Kulkarni
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published
Oct 11, 2022
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
A2K Research,
Open Content,
Openness
It all started like this. During the Wikimedia session at Goa University in October 2021, it was realised that there is very little documentation about the ‘Goa Liberation Struggle’ on Wikimedia projects. So, in the meeting Prof. Vinay Madgaonkar from the Marathi language department took the lead to develop a project around this theme.
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CIS Signs MoU with Odia Virtual Academy
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by
Sailesh Patnaik
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published
Dec 19, 2018
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last modified
Dec 20, 2018 12:24 AM
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Open Educational Resources,
CIS-A2K,
Open License,
Access to Knowledge,
Open Data,
Wikipedia,
Open Content,
Odia Wikipedia,
Open Access,
Wikimedia
On October 26, 2018, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Odia Virtual Academy (OVA) to work on drafting an open content policy for the state, to promote use of Wikimedia projects by various user types and to ensure sustainability of Wikimedia projects, and to facilitate development of relevant free and open source software projects. This partnership between OVA and CIS will be carried out from December 2018 to November 2019, and we are sharing an overview of the activities and their objectives in this post.
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Should Indian Researchers Pay to Get their Work Published
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by
Muthu Madhan, Siva Shankar Kimidi, Subbiah Gunasekaran and Subbiah Arunachalam
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published
Oct 29, 2016
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last modified
Oct 29, 2016 02:47 PM
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Science,
Open Content,
Open Access
We raise the financial and ethical issue of paying for getting papers published in professional journals. Indian researchers have published more than 37,000 papers in over 880 open access journals from 61 countries in the five years 2010-14 as seen from Science Citation Index Expanded. This accounts for about 14.4% of India’s overall publication output, considerably higher than the 11.6% from the world. Indian authors have used 488 OA journals levying article processing charge (APC), ranging from INR 500 to US$5,000, in the five years to publish about 15,400 papers.
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Software Freedom Pledge
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Sep 25, 2015
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last modified
Sep 25, 2015 12:26 PM
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Open Source,
Access to Knowledge,
FLOSS,
Open Content,
FOSS,
Event,
Technological Protection Measures
On September 19, 2015, celebrated globally as Software Freedom Day, a number of enthusiasts got together and collectively took a pledge.
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Open Letter to the Vatican: Request for Holy See to Comment on IPR
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by
Samantha Cassar
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published
Jan 31, 2014
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last modified
Jan 31, 2014 07:14 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Copyright,
Public Accountability,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Open Content
Due to the Holy See’s demonstrated pro-access position to medicines and published materials for persons with disabilities, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) requested for His Excellency, Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, to also consider copyrights, patents or IPR more generally, as the Holy See’s Permanent Observer at WIPO. We strongly encourage other organizations and civil society groups to modify this letter, as needed, and to contact the Holy See Mission to the United Nations (and WIPO) in Geneva in order to help us prompt His Excellency to contribute to the international dialogue on IPR.
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How Can We Make Open Education Truly Open?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Nov 30, 2013
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Content,
Access to Knowledge
I have spent the last month being unpopular. I have been in conversation with many ‘Open Everything’ activists and practitioners. At each instance, we got stuck because I insisted that we begin by defining what ‘Open’ means in the easy abuse that it is subject to.
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