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May 2012 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 07, 2012 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Research, Openness
Welcome to the newsletter issue of May 2012! In the current issue, we bring to you updates of our latest research, event reports, videos, and media coverage:
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Dot Bharat domain to roll out on August 21: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 19, 2014 — last modified Sep 08, 2014 07:08 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Accessibility, Access to Knowledge
Web addresses are set to get multilingual in India. Soon you will be able to type in addresses in a web browser in the Devnagri script – with “dot bharat” standing in for the currently common “dot in” domain to begin with. The roll-out of the same begins on August 21.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
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
'I'm going to ruin you, dear': by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 03, 2014 — last modified Sep 09, 2014 09:55 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Access to Knowledge, Privacy
Revenge porn is sweeping across the developed world. And now it's being seen in India. The culprit, says Prasun Chaudhuri, is often a former friend, partner, relative or colleague.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
RightsCon 2018: by Admin — published Feb 28, 2018 — filed under: Access to Knowledge
Rohini Lakshané, Anubha Sinha, Vidushi Marda, and Amba Kak will be participating in the seventh event in the RightsCon Summit Series to be held in Toronto from May 16 - 18, 2018 as speakers.
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Marathi Language Day events by CIS-A2K in February 2018: by Subodh Kulkarni — published Feb 27, 2018 — last modified Mar 17, 2018 08:58 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia
Marathi Language day is celebrated all over world on 27th February. Dnyanpeeth award winning writer V.V.Shirwadkar alias Kusumagraj was born on this date. Various events and activities were conducted in collaboration with community, institutions and government departments.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Chromebook for the Project Tiger- How it is helping me to contribute actively on Wikimedia projects!: by Sangram Keshari Senapati — published Mar 26, 2018 — last modified Apr 20, 2018 06:21 AM — filed under: Wikipedia, Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Project Tiger is a collaboration project of Wikimedia Foundation with Centre for Internet and Society, Wikimedia India and other affiliates of India to improve and create high-quality content in Indic languages like Odia, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi etc.This project helps the active and experienced Wikipedia editors by supporting them with Internet charges for 6 months and Laptops to 50 volunteers to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.
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Pervasive Technologies: Working Document Series - Research Questions and a Literature Review on the Actor-Network Theory: by Nehaa Chaudhari — published Sep 05, 2015 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Pervasive Technologies
This document is divided into two parts - the first part lays out a series of research questions, potentially seeking to apply actor-network theory as a research methodology. The second part seeks to map literature around the Actor-Network Theory ("ANT") as a research methodology.
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ಬೆಳ್ತಂಗಡಿ:ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾಲಕ್ಕೂ ಲಭ್ಯ ಇರುವ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಹಾಗೂ ಮುಕ್ತ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾ-ಪವನಜ: by U.B.Pavanaja — published Aug 14, 2015 — last modified Sep 06, 2015 12:09 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Kannada Wikipedia
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) has ongoing partnership with SDM College, Ujire. Students of Masters in Communication and Journalism will be writing articles in Kannada Wikipedia. This academic year’s programme was inaugurated on August 12. It was followed by hands-on workshop. SahilOnline has reported this on August 14, 2015.
Located in Openness / News & Media
'We Need to Proactively Ensure that People Can't File Patents Representative of the Creativity of a FOSS Community': by Rohini Lakshané — published Aug 23, 2015 — last modified Sep 27, 2015 11:51 AM — filed under: Open Source, Access to Knowledge, Open Innovation, FOSS, Patents
Rohini Lakshané attended “Open Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Our Digital Culture” in Bangalore on August 13, 2015. Major takeaways from the event are documented in this post.
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