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December 2012 Bulletin
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 30, 2012
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Openness
We at the Centre for Internet & Society wish you all a great year ahead. In the December 2012 newsletter, we bring you the draft early chapters of our “National Resource Kit” project for persons with disabilities (covering four southern states); and accessibility-related comments on the Twelfth Five Year Plan; the draft research on pervasive technologies and access to knowledge that we presented at the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest in Brazil; our comments on the privacy implications of including RFID tags in the proposed Rule 138A of the Motor Vehicle Rules, a report on the open access lectures delivered by Prof. Leslie Chan during his tour of India, reports of Wikipedia-related workshops conducted across three cities, and news and media coverage.
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A Wikipedia Workshop at NMAIT
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Dec 30, 2012
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last modified
Jan 04, 2013 04:30 PM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi collaborated with Metawings Institute to spread the words about Wikipedia for Indian languages. A one-day workshop was organized to educated the students on contributing to Wikipedia on December 21, 2012. About 170 engineering students took part in this event.
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Access to Knowledge Workshop @ NMAMIT, Karkala Taluk, Karnataka
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Prasad Krishna
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Dec 19, 2012
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Workshop,
Openness,
Event
The Centre for Internet & Society in collaboration with Metawing Technologies (P) Ltd. is organizing a Wikipedia workshop at NMAMIT, Karkala Taluk, Karnataka on December 21, 2012, from 9.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — November 2012
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 14, 2012
This is the third Access to Knowledge newsletter from the CIS team in Delhi! This issue gives a summary of the first Odia Wikipedia education program, workshops organised in Bhubaneswar and Delhi, a meet-up held in Kolkata, hackathons held in Delhi and Hyderabad, and news and media coverage during the month of November.
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Kolkata: Tasting the Sweetness of Wikipedia!
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Nov 30, 2012
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last modified
Dec 04, 2012 07:19 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Video,
Interview,
Openness
Recently, Access to Knowledge team member Subhashish Panigrahi spent some time with wikipedians in Kolkata. Through this blog post he shares his experience and learning from the interaction. This post explores the journey of three wikipedians — Jayanta Nath, Deepon Saha and Ashwin.
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November 2012 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 30, 2012
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last modified
Jan 06, 2013 01:59 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Openness,
Researchers at Work
Welcome to the newsletter of November 2012 from the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). The present issue features an analysis of Section 66A of the IT Act by Pranesh Prakash, comments on the draft Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, an introduction to 12 mobile devices that we are researching as part of the Pervasive Technologies project, submissions of civil society in relation to the revision of International Telecommunication Regulations that are to take place at the ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai, updates from the Wikipedia community on Indic languages, and news and media coverage.
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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — October 2012 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 29, 2012
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Dec 14, 2012 08:19 AM
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Openness,
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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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OdishaDiary conferred prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to Odia Wikipedia team
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Nov 23, 2012
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Dec 05, 2012 04:55 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
OdishaDiary (Orissadiary.com) conferred the prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to the team of contributors of Odia Wikipedia.
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An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB College, Bhubaneswar
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Nov 19, 2012
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Dec 07, 2012 10:40 PM
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Higher Education,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Workshop,
Video,
Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society along with Odia Wikipedians in Bhubaneswar organized an Odia Wikipedia workshop on November 18, 2012. It was held in KMBB College of Engineering. Odia Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia in Odia language which everyone can edit.
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Odia Wikipedia Gets a New Typing Solution!
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Nov 19, 2012
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Dec 12, 2012 12:28 PM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
Subhashish Panigrahi worked with Yuvi Panda to create a new typing scheme for Odia Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. This blog post gives a summary of this development and its outcome.
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