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Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Suvarna Times of Karnataka)
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 12, 2013
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Sep 05, 2013 06:10 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
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Suvarna Times of Karnataka covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.
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Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Vijaya Vani)
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 12, 2013
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Sep 05, 2013 06:45 AM
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Prajavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.
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Launch of Assamese Wikipedia Education Program at Guwahati University
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Nitika Tandon
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Oct 22, 2012
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Jul 26, 2013 11:43 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Workshop,
Video,
Openness
The Assamese Wikipedia community has shown a rapid growth in the past six months from 20 active editors in January 2012 to 29 active editors in June 2012. The absolute numbers might seem low but in terms of percentages its an overwhelming increment of 45 per cent.
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Learning and Understanding the Frameworks of Rights at Work
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by
Admin
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Jul 21, 2019
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Openness
On July 13, 2019, Torsha and Mira attended the 'Learning and understanding the frameworks of rights at work' workshop held by Kai Hsin Hung at IT For change in Bangalore.
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Lecture on Open Access and Open Content Licensing at ICAR (short course)
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Admin
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Nov 22, 2018
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Dec 05, 2018 04:19 PM
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Openness,
Open Access,
Access to Knowledge
The ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) a constituent establishment of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) organised a short course on 'ICTs for Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness in Agricultural Research, Education and Extension of NARES' during November 13-22, 2018 in Bangalore. Anubha Sinha delivered a lecture to the participants.
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Legal Challenges to Mapping in India #1 - Laws, Policies, and Cases
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Adya Garg
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May 11, 2016
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May 11, 2016 01:43 PM
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Geospatial Information Regulation Bill,
Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Geospatial Data,
Openness
Responding to the draft Geospatial Information Regulation Bill and the draft National Geospatial Policy made public recently, this post provides an overview of the present configuration of laws, policies, and guidelines that provides the legal framework in India for governance of creation and sharing of geospatial data in India. The post also studies these policies in action by describing the key legal cases around the creation and use of geospatial data. The next post of this series will document the reflections and opinions of the key geospatial industry actors in India, as well as the free and open source mapping community.
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Leslie Chan Lectures in Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore
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Prasad Krishna
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Dec 12, 2012
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Dec 12, 2012 06:26 AM
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Prof. Leslie Chan from the University of Toronto, Canada is giving a series of lectures in Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore from December 17, 2012 to December 19, 2012.
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Letter to Education Secretary, Government of Karnataka, Advocating Adoption of FOSS in State IT Academies
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Sanchia de Souza
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May 19, 2009
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Aug 23, 2011 02:55 AM
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Openness,
FLOSS
The Centre for Internet and Society is a signatory to a letter being sent to the Education Secretary, Government of Karnataka, advocating the adoption of FOSS at state IT academies.
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Loyola Faculty Enlightened About Open Edn Resources
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Prasad Krishna
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Jun 25, 2014
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Jul 02, 2014 04:50 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
“The tremendous changes in the digital technology have introduced the newage faculty to certain open and collaborative tools like Wiki, termed as open educational resources (OER),” Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) progarmme director T Vishnu Vardhan has said.
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Magic words in Wikipedia
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by
Tanveer Hasan
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Jun 25, 2015
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Sep 14, 2015 08:37 AM
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Wikipedia,
Wikimedia
The struggle of finding solutions for replacing and retrieving content /words/facts and figures, in this day and age of machines that seem to know everything should ideally be a non-issue. Yet, for many of us who write reports based on the data available at that moment, it is nothing less than a nightmare to come to know that there has been a significant change in the data with which our reports have been written.
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