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Blog Entry How It Came To Be: Wiki Loves Uniformed Services
by Guest blogger: Krishna Chaitanya Velaga — published Jul 10, 2017 — filed under: , , ,
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry How Open Access Content helps Fuel Growth in Indian-language Wikipedias
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 25, 2016 — filed under: , , , ,
Mobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in rural India, and because most Internet users are more comfortable in their native languages, websites producing content in Indian languages are going to drive this growth. In a country like India in which only a handful of journals are available in Indian languages, open access to research and educational resources is hugely important for populating content for the various Indian language Wikipedias.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry How to do GuerillaGLAM
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published May 28, 2015 — last modified May 28, 2015 03:30 PM — filed under: , , ,
A proposal titled How to do GuerrillaGLAM" that I had submitted for the Wikimania 2015 has been accepted. I will be presenting this on July 18.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry How to write differently for different Telugu digital platforms - awareness session to Indu Gnana Vedika
by Pavan Santhosh — published Jul 19, 2018 — filed under: , , ,
Different digital platforms require a different style of writing based on nature, ethos, and audience of the platform. Without which writer and piece of writing can only find rejections and deletions.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
ICT for Development
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 03, 2014 — last modified Dec 28, 2014 03:26 AM — filed under: , , ,
Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was a speaker at this event organized by Christ University on December 3, 2014 in Bangalore.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Blog Entry Images and links matter quality
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published May 04, 2016 — last modified Jun 08, 2016 09:54 AM — filed under: ,
Wikipedia articles are considered of a higher quality when they have illustrations. An article without images is considered dull. Wikipedia is all about references. Any information on Wikipedia is encouraged to have verifiable citations. Hence images and external links form a criterion for quality of articles on Wikipedias. This blog post tries to analyse the current scenario of CIS-A2K's Focus language areas with respect to images and links.
Located in Openness
Blog Entry Imperial College Orientation Program, Bargarh
by Sailesh Patnaik — published Feb 12, 2017 — last modified Apr 16, 2017 07:51 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
An Odia Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Imperial College, Bargarh on 12 February, 2017.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Improving Telugu Village Articles
by Pavan Santhosh — published Nov 26, 2016 — last modified Nov 26, 2016 02:27 AM — filed under: , , ,
Telugu wikipedians on 6 October 2016 held a discussion on improving the quality of Telugu articles. The event was organized by IIIT, Hyderabad, CIS-A2K and OpenGeo.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry India Access To Knowledge/Draft Work plan July 2014 - June 2015
by T. Vishnu Vardhan — published Mar 31, 2014 — last modified Apr 08, 2014 09:51 AM — filed under: , , , ,
One of the key mandates of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is to work towards catalysing the growth of the open knowledge movement in South-Asia and in Indic languages. CIS has been a steward of the Wikimedia movement in India since December 2008 when Jimmy Wales visited Bangalore. From September 2012 it has been actively involved in growing the movement in India through a grant received from the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). Based on the 18-month experience of working with various Indic Wikimedia communities, CIS-A2K has developed its Work Plan for July 2014 to June 2015.
Located in Openness / Blog
India and France to Digitise Manuscripts, Artworks & Archives
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 02, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:15 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Indian and French governments have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which will assist in technical knowledge sharing, competency, skill building and cultural exchange between the two countries, as per a PIB release.
Located in Openness / News & Media
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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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