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Blog Entry MoU between PAH Solapur University & CIS-A2K
by Subodh Kulkarni — published May 31, 2019 — last modified Jun 05, 2019 06:21 AM — filed under: , ,
CIS-A2K is working in collaboration with PAH Solapur University, Solapur in Maharashtra on Wikimedia projects. The Mass Communication and Journalism departments are involved in content generation on Marathi Wikipedia & Commons.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry What is Wikimedia Education SAARC Conference?
by Sailesh Patnaik — published Jun 05, 2019 — last modified Jun 22, 2019 09:37 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The Wikimedia Education SAARC conference is on 20th June 2019. A conference for Wikimedians, Wikimedia education leaders, educators and researchers engaged with Open Education and free knowledge movement.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Tallapaka Pada Sahityam is now on Wikisource
by Pavan Santhosh — published Jun 10, 2017 — last modified Jul 10, 2017 01:44 PM — filed under: , , , , , ,
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Blog Entry Thematic Edit-a-thon at Yashawantrao Chavan Institute of Science, Satara
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Jun 11, 2017 — last modified Jul 11, 2017 09:35 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
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Blog Entry CIS-A2K Co-Facilitates Punjabi Wikimedians Wikimedia Strategy Meeting
by Tito Dutta — published Aug 01, 2017 — filed under: ,
On 15 July 2017, Punjabi Wikimedia User Group, conducted Punjabi Wikimedia Strategy Meeting at Patiala. CIS-A2K members Tanveer Hasan and Tito Dutta attended the event as co-facilitator and resource person. The event was followed by a meeting on the next day when active Punjabi Wikimedians and CIS-A2K representatives discussed different plans and strategies for the Punjabi Wikimedian projects in the coming months.
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Blog Entry Christ University Wikipedia Education Program Faculty Orientation Report
by Ananth Subray — published Jul 07, 2017 — last modified Aug 03, 2017 04:45 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Christ University faculty were given an orientation for the upcoming year on the Wikipedia Education Program
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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — October 2012 Bulletin
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 29, 2012 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 08:19 AM — filed under: , , , ,
This is the second bulletin from the Access to Knowledge team of CIS in Delhi. This issue features education program updates of the Assamese, Malayalam and Gujarati Wiki communities, a hackathon held at BITS, Hyderabad, press coverage of the Odia Wikipedia workshop in Pune, and reports of workshops organised in Bangalore, Ghaziabad and Pune during the month of October.
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Blog Entry WikipediansSpeak with Dr. Kishore Kumar Rai Sheni: Tulu Wikipedia in the making
by U.B.Pavanaja — published Sep 12, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:06 PM — filed under: , ,
Dr. Kishore Kumar Rai Sheni, Principal, Shri Ramakrishna P.U. College, Mangaluru shares with Dr. U.B. Pavanaja of the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K) programme his insights on bringing more contributors of different corners of the society to grow Tulu Wikipedia. Tulu Wikipedia is in Incubator at present and there are a bunch of contributors who are expanding the project to bring it live.
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Blog Entry Google's Optical Character Recognition Software Now Works with All South Asian Languages
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 26, 2015 — filed under: , ,
The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software by Google now works for more than 248 world languages, including all the major South Asian languages, and it's easy to use and works with over 90 percent accuracy for most languages.
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Blog Entry Wikimedia contributor shares his Linux story
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Sep 27, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:08 PM — filed under: , ,
Computers have fascinated me since childhood, but my first encounter—like many others—was not with Linux. For me, it was with Microsoft Paint. Then, many years later in 2011, it was my Wikipedia mentor, Shiju Alex, who introduced me to Linux. Since then, it's been my life!
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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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