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Western Ghats Portal: Workshop on Biodiversity Informatics: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 08, 2011 — filed under: Open Data, Openness
The Western Ghats portal team is organising a one-day workshop to explore the contemporary state on biodiversity informatics on 25 November 2011 at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE), Bangalore.
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What is happening in South America and how Openness is an opportunity to Social, Political and Activist Movements?: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 13, 2014 — last modified Jan 13, 2014 08:32 AM — filed under: Openness, Event
Pilar Saenz, project coordinator from the Karisma Foundation in Colombia and Ulises Hernandez, an engineer in electronics and telecommunication will give a talk on Openness as an opportunity for social, political and activist movements in South America. The talk will be held at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) office in Bangalore on January 17 at 6.00 p.m.
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What is the Open Data Movement & Why Does it Matter?: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published May 13, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2015 01:12 AM — filed under: Openness
I gave a talk at this event organized by Phandeeyar on May 13, 2015 in Yangon. About 25 delegates attended the event.
Located in Openness / Blog
Whats & Hows of Wiki: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 26, 2013 — last modified Oct 25, 2013 07:00 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The Kings School students of class 10 were blessed to have Nitika Tandon & Subhashish Panigrahi of Wikipedia Foundation to conduct a workshop on the whats & hows of Wiki, creating & editing Wiki pages, etc. Our students also got a hands on experience, and they edited the Bibinca page on Wiki.
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When the virtual world gets a room: by Prasad — published Dec 22, 2009 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 02:09 PM — filed under: Openness
Wikipedians have found a permanent abode, and the comfort of increasing numbers, at the office of the Centre for Internet and Society, a research and advocacy organisation.
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Why Open Access Has To Look Up For Academic Publishing To Look Up: by Anubha Sinha — published Oct 12, 2016 — filed under: Openness, Open Access
In an important development, the US Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint against the India-based OMICS group for harassing authors to publish in its journals.
Located in Openness
Wiki donors: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 21, 2013 — last modified Jul 01, 2013 04:19 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Time Out finds out what Wikipedia’s doing to turn the info mammoth Kannada friendly
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Wiki goes the oral citation way: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 18, 2012 — filed under: Openness
In a way to overcome lack of any citable sources in print on several interesting, but lesser-known topics, an Indian researcher on the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, has evolved The Oral Citations Project.
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Wiki Loves Mayabazaar: by Pavan Santhosh — published May 01, 2017 — last modified Jun 07, 2017 09:24 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Wiki Loves Pride 2014 and Adding Diversity to Wikipedia: by Dorothy Howard — published Jul 25, 2014 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Since Wikipedia’s gender gap first came to light in late 2010, Wikipedians have taken the issue to heart, developing projects with a focus on inclusivity in content, editorship and the learning environments relevant to new editors.
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