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OER16: Open Culture: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 30, 2016 — last modified Jan 30, 2016 06:53 AM — filed under: Open Educational Resources, Openness
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.
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OGP Asia Pacific Regional Conference: by Prasad Krishna — published May 03, 2014 — last modified Jun 03, 2014 12:03 PM — filed under: Openness, Access to Knowledge
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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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: Open Water Data, Open Data, Open Science, Open Government Data, Environment, Featured, Openness, Homepage
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: Openness
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: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
Wikimedians gathered at Tirupati for a strategic meet. This was covered by the regional newspaper Andhra Jyothy
Located in Openness / News & Media
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: Openness
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: Openness
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: Openness
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
Open Access Dialogues - Report and Policy Recommendations: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Aug 01, 2013 — last modified Dec 22, 2015 06:52 AM — filed under: Openness, Open Access Dialogues, Open Access
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.
Located in Openness
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: Openness, Marathi Wikipedia, CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge
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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