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New Project to Assess Potential of Creating Open Government Data Initiatives in Chile, Ghana and Turkey
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 13, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 10:44 AM — filed under:
Steve Bratt, CEO of the World Wide Web Foundation (founded in 2009 by Tim Berners-Lee) has made an announcement on moving forward with a project to assess the potential of creating open government data initiatives in Chile, Ghana, and Turkey - the first step of what we hope to be a global initiative focusing on low- and middle-income countries.
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Blog Entry NIE Steps in to Grow Konkani Wikipedia
by T. Vishnu Vardhan — published Sep 06, 2014 — last modified Oct 10, 2014 11:26 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) signed a memorandum of agreement (MoU) with Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa to enhance digital literacy in Konkani in the education sector across Goa.
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Blog Entry Nineteen Books Published by Ama Odisha Relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 25, 2014 — last modified Dec 07, 2014 03:35 AM — filed under: , ,
Odisha's most circulated newspaper Sambad has collaborated with CIS-A2K to relicense 19 books published by its sister concern "Ama Odisha".
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Blog Entry Non Unicode ISCII Text Can be Converted to Unicode Now!
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Dec 19, 2012 — last modified Dec 21, 2012 09:59 AM — filed under: , , ,
Odia Wikipedian Manoj Sahukar has designed a new tool which can convert non Unicode ISCII text to Odia Unicode text. A majority of the digitized text and web content of newspapers and books are in non unicode text which now could be used for Wikipedia and other Odia Wiki projects. This opens a new arena for digitized free license books in Odia language.
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Not many contributors for Kannada-centric Wiki page
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Jul 05, 2015 — last modified Sep 13, 2015 05:42 AM — filed under: , ,
Wikipedia, which has over 60,000 contributing editors in India, has only 33 Kannadigas contributing to the Kannada section, said Pavanaja U B, programme manager, The Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru.
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November 2011 Bulletin
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 24, 2012 — filed under: , , , , , ,
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 some past events organized by us during the month of November 2011.
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November 2012 Bulletin
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 30, 2012 — last modified Jan 06, 2013 01:59 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
Welcome to the newsletter of November 2012 from the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). The present issue features an analysis of Section 66A of the IT Act by Pranesh Prakash, comments on the draft Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, an introduction to 12 mobile devices that we are researching as part of the Pervasive Technologies project, submissions of civil society in relation to the revision of International Telecommunication Regulations that are to take place at the ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai, updates from the Wikipedia community on Indic languages, and news and media coverage.
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November 2013 Bulletin
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 30, 2013 — last modified Jan 04, 2014 04:38 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
Our newsletter for the month of November 2013 can be accessed below.
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Now you can search Google in Kannada, in your handwriting
by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 18, 2015 — last modified May 09, 2015 08:29 AM — filed under: , ,
All you need to do is to make changes in settings on your phone or tablet.
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Now, Christ students will contribute to Wikipedia
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 06, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
The department of languages at Christ University has set a precedent by including contribution to Wikipedia as a part of the undergraduate course work.
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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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