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Blog Entry Wikipedia Campus at Oxford College
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Apr 28, 2015 — last modified May 27, 2015 02:22 PM — filed under: ,
CIS-A2K collaborated with the Oxford College of Engineering, Bommanahalli, Bangalore on April 24, 2015 for introducing Wikimedia projects at their institution. Radhakrishna, a senior Wikimedian from Bangalore provided the crucial introduction and worked closely with the A2K team in conducting all the activities.
Located in Openness / Blog
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 Patterns of Gender Aggression and Harassment in Open Tech and Open Culture Communities Online
by Rohini Lakshané — published Apr 13, 2015 — last modified Jun 01, 2015 02:13 AM — filed under: , , ,
Report on the talk delivered by me at Adacamp held in Montreal, Canada on April 13-14, 2015.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Konkani Wikipedia Goes Live After 'Nine Years' of Incubation
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jul 18, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:15 PM — filed under: , , , , , ,
Konkani Wikipedia is the second Wikimedia project after Odia Wikisource that has gone live out of incubation. The project stayed in the incubation for nine long years and the community has gone through a long debate to have a Wikipedia of their own. Here is a blog highlighting three Konkani Wikimedians and an advocate of the Wikipedia movement whose efforts finally paid off.
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Blog Entry Magic words in Wikipedia
by Tanveer Hasan — published Jun 25, 2015 — last modified Sep 14, 2015 08:37 AM — filed under: , ,
The struggle of finding solutions for replacing and retrieving content /words/facts and figures, in this day and age of machines that seem to know everything should ideally be a non-issue. Yet, for many of us who write reports based on the data available at that moment, it is nothing less than a nightmare to come to know that there has been a significant change in the data with which our reports have been written.
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Blog Entry Train the Trainer: Running effective outreach activities in India
by Tanveer Hasan — published Jun 24, 2015 — last modified Jul 30, 2015 03:20 PM — filed under: , ,
It is heartening to report that many Wikimedia projects in Indian languages have sustained, and even experienced an upward trend in, editor engagement. However, in terms of content creation, the majority of these projects are still facing grave challenges that put their very existence at risk.
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Blog Entry Access To Knowledge/Programme Plan
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 30, 2012 — filed under: , ,
Pursuant to the announcement made on July 30, 2012 and as reflected in the FAQ accompanying the announcement, the India Program will become a project of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) an established non-profit organisation working in India whose own goals and objectives are in close alignment with that of the Wikimedia movement.
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Odia Education Program at IIMC, Dhenkanal
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 24, 2013 — last modified Jan 24, 2013 10:23 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi is organizing a workshop on the Odia Education Program on January 26, 2013, from 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.
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Blog Entry Project Tiger 2.0
by Suswetha Kolluru and Nitesh Gill — published Nov 24, 2019 — filed under: , , ,
If you think that Indian languages are as important as international languages, like English, then, you are on the same page with this article. If not, then, let me explain, why it is a significant and much bigger issue than you think.
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Publishing Next
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 30, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
T. Vishnu Vardhan was a speaker at Publishing Next organized by CinnamonTeal Publishing, a Margao (Goa)-based publishing house that provides publishing services to authors and publishers. The event was held in Goa on September 19 and 20.
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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