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                                      ‘With Internet in every pocket, power to the people’
                                    
 
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Social media is set to grow in India in a big way with Google and Facebook gearing up to tap the regional languages market.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Developing Digital Open Knowledge Resources in Indian Languages
                                    
 
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The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in partnership with the School of Cultural Texts and Records, School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education, and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai is organizing a two-day workshop for students at Jadavpur University on August 25 and 26, 2014. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      Why It's Essential To Grow Indian-Language Wikipedias
                                     
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On 15 January, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia celebrated its 15th birthday, meeting this milestone with 36 million articles in more than 290 languages (the English-language Wikipedia alone has crossed the 5-million article mark). But here I want to address some major questions that we need to ask as Indians. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      Wikipedia initiative - Celebrating legacy of Bangalore Blue grapes online
                                    
 
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Black is beautiful, and it can go places if it is well researched. When HL Omshivaprakash wrote a Wikipedia article about Karnataka's bidriware, the metal handicraft where gleaming black bowls and hookahs are dotted with delicate silver strips, he didn't expect it to be picked up by the French and Swedes.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Read Bengali, Malayalam classics online as free Wiki libraries grow
                                    
 
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Content Includes Classics In Malayalam, Bengali.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Suvarna Times of Karnataka)
                                    
 
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                                              Aug 12, 2013
                                            
                                            
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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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                                      Konkani Vishwakosh relaunch tomorrow
                                    
 
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The Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet and Societies Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) will relaunch its four-volume 3,632-page Konkani Vishwakosh (encyclopaedia) under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. to support the movement of open knowledge and open access on Thursday at 10 a.m. at a function at the conference hall of its administrative building at Taleigao plateau.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Konkani Wikipedia from Goa University in 6 months
                                    
 
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Piles of the thick four volumes of Konkani vishwakosh or encyclopedia waiting to be picked up by users at the Goa University (GU) will now attain a modern avatar.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Access to Knowledge Bulletin — June & July 2013 
                                    
 
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A2K newsletter for the months of June and July, 2013.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Access to Knowledge Bulletin — August 2013
                                    
 
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The Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) newsletter for the month of August 2013:
                                      
                                          
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