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Blog Entry Tewiki 10th Anniversary
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Feb 15, 2014 — last modified Mar 19, 2014 11:01 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Tewiki 10th anniversary celebration 2014, started on February 15 in Vijayawada at Kakaraparti Bhavanarayana College. It was co-organized by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team and the Telugu Wikipedia community. Ch.Arjuna Rao expressed his happiness on Telugu Wikipedias completion of 10 years and 55000 articles in Telugu on the inauguration of decade celebrations.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Ten Telugu Books Re-released Under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Jun 22, 2014 — last modified Jul 08, 2014 05:29 AM — filed under: , , , ,
For the first time in the history of Indian books, 10 Telugu books by a single author were released under Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) on June 22, 2014 at 10 a.m. at Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad.
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Blog Entry 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: , , , ,
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.
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Blog Entry Telugu Wikipedia Winter Camp at Andhra Loyola College
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Feb 26, 2015 — filed under: , , , ,
Students of physics, statistics and Telugu departments of Andhra Loyola College spent 5 days of their Christmas vacation of 2014 to edit and enrich Telugu Wikipedia and Wikisource. They worked on their respective subject areas and came up with more than 100 new articles on Telugu Wikipedia and about 300 pages of Veeresalingam's works were typed on Telugu Wikisource.
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Blog Entry Creating Free Software Environment at Andhra Loyola College
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Dec 13, 2014 — last modified May 27, 2015 12:54 AM — filed under: , ,
Andhra Loyola college has signed an MoU with CIS-A2K and as part of it CIS-A2K team has provided a free and open software environment at Andhra Lyola College's Computer Center. Thirty machines have been installed with free software Operating system and some useful applications such as GIMP, Inkscape, firefox, libreoffice, etc.
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Image ALC Wiki Winer Camp
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Jan 13, 2015 06:34 AM
Students and Faculty who attended the Wiki winter camp.
Image Eenadu coverage of event
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Jan 19, 2015 09:32 AM
Eenadu coverage of event
File Ammanudi my article.pdf
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Sep 06, 2016 — last modified Sep 06, 2016 02:15 PM
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Blog Entry Making Telugu Suitable for Internet
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Sep 06, 2016 — filed under: , ,
In brief, the article speaks of steps in making a language other than English suitable for Internet and computers, what input methods, fonts and content are available in Telugu as on date and what challenges are ahead in making language fully available on Internet and in computers.
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Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Annamacharya library to preserve rare Telugu literature text
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — published Aug 07, 2015 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 06:12 PM — filed under: , , ,
Telugu Wikipedia Community and the Centre for Internet & Society are conducting the Annamaya Library edit-a-thon on August 6, 2015 at Andhra Loyola College, Vijaywada.
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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.

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