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Voices from Goa: Rusita Paryekar, a MA student writes articles on Konkani Wikipedia: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 27, 2013 — last modified Sep 06, 2013 12:30 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
Rusita Paryekar is one of the 38 students from the MA Konkani department of Goa University gathered at the State Central Library to learn writing and editing articles on Konkani Wikipedia. Currently Konkani Wikipedia is in incubation and needs more voluntary participation from enthusiasts who want their language, Konkani to strengthen its base in the digital knowledge domain.
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Selection of Programme Officer — Pilot Projects, CIS-A2K: by Nitika Tandon — published Sep 10, 2013 — last modified Oct 30, 2013 06:07 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) opened applications for the post of Programme Officer, Pilot Projects for its Access to Knowledge (A2K) Programme on 17th April 2013. The vacancy and call for applications was shared on all Indian language mailing lists, city mailing lists as well as Village Pumps.
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Recap on Konkani Wikipedia Workshop: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 12, 2013 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
Konkani as a language has seen geographical, political and religious conflicts. Being the official language of Goa and spoken widely in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra it is still trying to strengthen its base. Recently CIS-A2K in collaboration with Goa University organized a four-day workshop for MA, Konkani language students.
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Wikimania 2013: Wikipedians represent Indian Languages in Hong Kong: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Aug 19, 2013 — last modified Sep 13, 2013 06:03 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
The 7th, 8th and 9th of August 2013 saw over 600 Wikipedians across the world participating Wikimania at Hong Kong. The three day annual international conference for users and contributors of Wikipedia brought many debates about open educational research, open source technologies, gender gap, documenting the history of mankind in a free and open platform like Wikipedia and its sister sites in collaboration with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums and all of these in 286 world languages. More and more volunteers are joining this movement and it is expanding the media of accessing and disseminating knowledge.
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ଅବସର ପରର ଦ୍ବିତୀୟ ଜୀବନ, ଅବସର ପରେ ସକ୍ରିୟ ଭାବେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଲେଖାଲେଖି ଜାରୀ ରଖିଥିବା ଜଣେ ଡାକ୍ତରଙ୍କ ସ‌ହ ଭାବାଲୋଚନା: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 10, 2013 — last modified Sep 13, 2013 08:38 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
This is a column about Dr. Subas Chandra Rout, a noteworthy wikipedian who started contributing to Wikipedia articles on Odia Wikipedia related to medical science after retiring as an Orthopedic Specialist-Assistant Professor of a Medical college.
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WikipediansSpeak: Piotr Konieczny: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 18, 2013 — last modified Sep 18, 2013 12:22 PM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
WikipediansSpeak is a video interview show hosted by Subhashish Panigrahi at the Centre of Internet and Society. It brings you series of posts about Wikipedians across the globe. Wikipedians are those voluntary contributors who write Wikipedia articles, correct mistakes made by other wikipedians and share knowledge for free to the world.
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e - DIRAP Google+ Hangout: Open Government: by Christine Apikul — published Sep 18, 2013 — last modified Sep 18, 2013 10:43 AM — filed under: Openness
The e-DIRAP Hangout on Open Government was held on Thursday, 25 July 2013. It brought together nine professionals from Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines to discuss the wide spectrum of issues surrounding open government.
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Wikipedia reaches Classrooms in Hyderabad: by Syed Muzammiluddin — published Sep 20, 2013 — last modified Sep 20, 2013 07:20 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad organised a one-day workshop on editing Wikipedia in Indian languages. It was attended by participants who formed a small but proactive group of students who eagerly tried to register the first edits on four different Indian language wikipedias.
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CIS Signs MoU with Goa University: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 25, 2013 — last modified Sep 25, 2013 10:57 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The Access to Knowledge (A2K) team from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has signed a MOU with the Goa University.
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Open Access: An Opportunity for Scientists around the Globe: by Subbiah Arunachalam — published Sep 26, 2013 — filed under: Openness, Open Access, Access to Knowledge
Researchers face two problems related to information access: making their own research more visible to researchers elsewhere and making worldwide research readily available to them. Open access (OA) can solve both of them.
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