Search results

Subscribe to an always-updated RSS feed.

Andhra Loyola College and the Centre for Internet & Society sign MoU for Better Net Access: by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Aug 19, 2014 — last modified Jan 20, 2015 06:47 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
Andhra Loyola College (ALC) and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to steward the growth of Telugu Wikipedia and to make available free knowledge in Telugu to all Telugus across the globe.
Located in Openness / Blog
CIS-A2K Signs MoU with Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada: Coverage in Eenadu: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 15, 2014 — last modified Sep 09, 2014 09:22 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
This article was published in Enadu on August 15, 2014.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Now, Christ students will contribute to Wikipedia: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 06, 2014 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The department of languages at Christ University has set a precedent by including contribution to Wikipedia as a part of the undergraduate course work.
Located in News & Media
Connecting the Next Two Billion: The Role of FOSS: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 04, 2014 — last modified Sep 10, 2014 05:04 AM — filed under: Openness, FOSS, Access to Knowledge
Sunil Abraham was a speaker at this event organized by ICFOSS at the APrIGF in Noida on August 4, 2014.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Kannada Wikipedia Presentation for Kannada Science Writers: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 31, 2014 — last modified Aug 06, 2014 10:15 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Kannada Wikipedia
The following is the media coverage for the Kannada Wikipedia presentation at the Central University at Gulbarga on July 30,2014, in Gulbarga edition of Prajavani Kannada daily, dated July 31.
Located in News & Media
Access to Knowledge Bulletin — July 2014: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 31, 2014 — last modified Oct 04, 2014 02:46 PM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) newsletter for the month of July 2014:
Located in About Us / Newsletters
Kannada Wikipedia Presentation: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 30, 2014 — last modified Aug 06, 2014 09:57 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Kannada Wikipedia
The following is a scanned copy of the media coverage for the Kannada Wikipedia presentation at the Kannada Science Writers workshop at Gulbarga on July 29,2014, in Gulbarga edition of Vijayavani Kannada daily, dated July 30.
Located in News & Media
The joys of being a Wikipedian: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 30, 2014 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Radha Krishna, an engineer, had always wanted to share information online so that people who wanted to learn more could just log in and benefit by reading his articles. Eight years ago he started his own website for this very purpose. But he found it hard to maintain the site. He then chanced upon Wikipedia, the largest open-source encyclopedia, which was then just becoming popular in the country.
Located in News & Media
Doctors and Translators Are Working Together to Bridge Wikipedia's Medical Language Gap: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jul 28, 2014 — last modified Aug 04, 2014 03:29 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
I interviewed Wikimedian User:CFCF who is managing the entire project to understand how it is going to work and wrote on Global Voices' Rising Voices about it.
Located in Openness / Blog
'Trolled' from US Congress, Wikipedia bans edits: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 28, 2014 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has issued a ten-day ban against an anonymous editor of its website located on the premises of the U.S. Congress, after the latter engaged in “disruptive editing,” on a wide range of subjects, from moon-landing conspiracy theories linked to Cuba to naming former U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as an alien wizard.
Located in News & Media

« Previous 10 items Next 10 items » 1 … 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 … 83

Support Us

Please help us defend citizen and user rights on the Internet!

You may donate online via Instamojo. Or, write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at Ground Floor, No 173, 9th Cross, 2nd Stage, Indiranagar, Bangalore 560038. These charitable contributions will be towards the Institutional Corpus Fund of the Centre for Internet and Society.

Follow our Works

Newsletter: Subscribe

researchers@work blog: medium.com/rawblog

Twitter (CIS): @cis_india

Twitter (CIS-A2K): @cisa2k

Instagram: @cis.india

Youtube: Centre for Internet and Society

Request for Collaboration

We invite researchers, practitioners, artists, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to engage with us on topics related internet and society, and improve our collective understanding of this field. To discuss such possibilities, please write to us at communications[at]cis-india[dot]org with an indication of the form and the content of the collaboration you might be interested in.

In general, we offer financial support for collaborative/invited works only through public calls.

About Us

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.

Through its diverse initiatives, CIS explores, intervenes in, and advances contemporary discourse and regulatory practices around internet, technology, and society in India, and elsewhere.

© Centre for Internet & Society

Unless otherwise specified, content licensed under Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported.