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Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 18, 2014 — last modified Jul 04, 2014 11:28 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Event
Andhra Loyola College and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team invite you to a two-day national workshop on knowledge and openness in the digital era.
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Soon, all 14 volumes of Kannada encyclopaedia to be online: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 16, 2014 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Four volumes have been uploaded so far on a pilot basis.
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Open Access: Students help revive and digitize rare books for Malayalam Wiki Library: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 15, 2014 — last modified Jul 28, 2014 08:50 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
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Open Data in Cultural Heritage – OpenGLAM in Germany: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 10, 2014 — last modified Jul 28, 2014 09:49 AM — filed under: Open Data, Access to Knowledge, Openness
Subhashish Panigrahi took part in this event as a member of the OpenGLAM Working Group.
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Marathi Wikipedia Workshop in Sangli, Maharashtra: by Subodh Kulkarni — published Aug 01, 2017 — last modified Aug 16, 2017 08:40 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Openness
A Marathi Wikipedia workshop was recently held in Sangli, Maharashtra
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
February 2012 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 07, 2012 — last modified Jul 09, 2012 07:48 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Research, Openness
Welcome to the Centre for Internet and Society newsletter! In this issue we bring you the updates of our research, events, media coverage and videos of the events organized by us during the month of February 2012!
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Free Arduino Workshop (For Beginners): by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 14, 2012 — last modified Apr 28, 2012 04:07 AM — filed under: Openness, Event Type, Workshop, Video
The Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore invites you to a hands-on-free Arduino workshop in its office on 3 March 2012. The workshop will be held from 11.00 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Located in Openness
Design!PubliC — Third Conclave in New Delhi: by Prasad Krishna — published May 30, 2012 — last modified May 30, 2012 07:03 AM — filed under: Openness
On the 20th of April 2012, the third Design Public Conclave, organized by the Center for Knowledge Societies in collaboration with IBM, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Google and the Centre for Internet and Society, was held at the National Museum, New Delhi. The Conclave brought together thought-leaders and decision makers from the government, the media, multinational organizations and academic institutions for a conversation about transforming India into an Innovation Society.
Located in Openness
Open Access to Scholarly Literature in India: A Status Report: Call for Comments: by Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam and Madhan Muthu — published Jul 27, 2011 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:26 AM — filed under: Openness, Open Access
The Centre for Internet and Society welcomes comments on the first draft of "Open Access to Scholarly Literature in India: A Status Report". This report, on open access to scholarly literature, with a special focus on scientific literature, has been written by Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam and Madhan Muthu. The report surveys the field of scholarly and scientific publication in India and provides a detailed history of the open access movement in India.
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People are Knowledge – Experimenting with Oral Citations on Wikipedia: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 22, 2011 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:26 AM — filed under: Openness, Projects
The Centre for Internet and Society in association with the Wikimedia Foundation has produced a documentary film "People are Knowledge". The film evolved out of a project on Oral Citations in India and South Africa funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, and undertaken by Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board Member Achal Prabhala as a short-term fellowship, to help overcome a lack of published materials in emerging languages on Wikipedia. New Delhi-based filmmaker Priya Sen has directed the film, with additional assistance from Zen Marie who handled the shooting in South Africa. The film explores how alternate methods of citation could be employed on Wikipedia, documenting a series of specific situations with regards to published knowledge, and subsequently, with oral citations.
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