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OER16: Open Culture
by Prasad Krishna published Jan 30, 2016 last modified Jan 30, 2016 06:53 AM — filed under: ,
The 7th Open Educational Resources Conference, OER16: Open Culture, will be held on April 19 and 20, 2016 at the University of Edinburgh. The event is organized by Association for Learning Technology.
Located in Openness / News & Media
OGP Asia Pacific Regional Conference
by Prasad Krishna published May 03, 2014 last modified Jun 03, 2014 12:03 PM — filed under: ,
Open Government Partnership is organizing this conference in Bali on May 6 and 7, 2014. Sunil Abraham is a speaker for this event.
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Blog Entry On World Water Day - Open Data for Water Resources
by Sumandro Chattapadhyay published Mar 22, 2018 last modified Jan 28, 2019 02:41 PM — filed under: , , , , , , ,
Lack of open data for researchers and activists is a key barrier against ensuring access to water and planning for sustainable management of water resources. In a collaboration between DataMeet and CIS, supported by Arghyam, we are exploring the early steps for making open data and tools to plan for water resources accessible to all. To celebrate the World Water Day 2018, we are sharing what we have been working on in the past few months - a paper on open data for water studies in India, and a web app to make open water data easily explorable and usable. Craig Dsouza led this collaboration, and authored this post.
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One among the clan of Wikipedians
by Prasad Krishna published Jan 31, 2011 last modified Apr 01, 2011 04:49 PM — filed under:
In 2005, I lived in Johannesburg and worked as an activist to make knowledge more accessible. Between fighting copyright treaties in Geneva that would give corporations an even bigger stranglehold on our minds and finding ways to supply cheap textbooks to township schools, I talked about my work frequently. After one such event, organised by Nhlanhla Mabaso, the godfather of free and open source software in the country, I met two people who were particularly interested in my work. Their names were Angela Beesley and Erik Moller; they looked like college students, and said that they were helping to build an online encyclopaedia called Wikipedia. They were bright, warm and open - and I was hooked.
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Online Free Content in Telugu Wikipedia
by Prasad Krishna published Feb 19, 2015 — filed under: , , , ,
Wikimedians gathered at Tirupati for a strategic meet. This was covered by the regional newspaper Andhra Jyothy
Located in Openness / News & Media
Blog Entry Open Access Champion Leslie Chan Delivers Five Talks in India
by Prasad Krishna published Dec 30, 2012 last modified Jan 02, 2013 05:35 AM — filed under:
Professor Leslie Chan, a champion of Open Access (OA) and Associate Director of the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough visited Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore in December 2012 for a series of lectures. Well known advocate for OA in India and the developing world, Professor Subbiah Arunachalam, accompanied him on these tours.
Located in Openness / Blog
Open access conference seeks to free research
by Sanchia de Souza published Mar 26, 2009 last modified Apr 02, 2011 04:10 PM — filed under:
Article by Amulya Gopalakrishnan in the Indian Express (New Delhi), 26 March 2009
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Open Access Day
by Sunil Abraham published Sep 18, 2008 last modified Apr 05, 2011 04:45 AM — filed under:
October 14, 2008 will be the world’s first Open Access Day. The founding partners for this Day are SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Students for FreeCulture, and the Public Library of Science.
Located in Openness / Publications / Open Content and Open Access
Blog Entry Open Access Dialogues - Report and Policy Recommendations
by Sumandro Chattapadhyay published Aug 01, 2013 last modified Dec 22, 2015 06:52 AM — filed under: , ,
The Open Access Dialogues were a series of global electronic debates facilitated by Eve Gray and Kelsey Wiens, in partnership with The African Commons Project (South Africa) and the Centre for Internet and Society (India), during November 2012 to March 2013. It was supported by the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, and was hosted at WSIS Knowledge Communities Discussion Forum.
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Blog Entry Open access in the Marathi language expands by a thousand books
by Subhashish Panigrahi and Abhinav Garule published Dec 03, 2015 last modified Jan 03, 2016 11:26 AM — filed under: , , ,
As the Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) celebrated its 121st anniversary recently, the organization re-licensed 1000 books under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license so that the books could be digitized and be made available on the Marathi Wikisource for millions of Marathi readers.
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