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India Access To Knowledge/Draft Work plan July 2014 - June 2015
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by
T. Vishnu Vardhan
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published
Mar 31, 2014
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last modified
Apr 08, 2014 09:51 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Openness
One of the key mandates of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is to work towards catalysing the growth of the open knowledge movement in South-Asia and in Indic languages. CIS has been a steward of the Wikimedia movement in India since December 2008 when Jimmy Wales visited Bangalore. From September 2012 it has been actively involved in growing the movement in India through a grant received from the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). Based on the 18-month experience of working with various Indic Wikimedia communities, CIS-A2K has developed its Work Plan for July 2014 to June 2015.
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India's Ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty Celebrated; Accessible Books Consortium Launched
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by
Nehaa Chaudhari
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published
Jul 01, 2014
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last modified
Jul 01, 2014 11:09 AM
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Featured,
Homepage,
Accessibility,
Access to Knowledge
On Day 1 of the 28th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“SCCR”), the WIPO organized an event to mark India’s ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled, 2013 (“Marrakesh Treaty”), and to launch the Accessible Books Consortium (“ABC”).
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India's untapped potential: Are a billion people losing out because of spectrum?
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by
Shyam Ponappa
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published
Mar 29, 2011
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last modified
Dec 14, 2012 10:31 AM
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Telecom,
Featured
As one of the world’s fastest growing economies and with over 65% of its billion-plus population under 35, India has huge potential. But according to Shyam Ponappa of the Centre for Internet & Society, its spectrum management – the electromagnetic waves that are used from home appliances like microwaves and remote controls, to radios, cell phones, and of course, the internet – could be a huge barrier to the country’s economic and social development.
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Indian Language Wikipedia Statistics (September 2012 – April 2013)
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by
T.Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jun 30, 2013
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last modified
Aug 23, 2013 01:48 AM
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Statistics,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Openness
The Access to Knowledge team carried out a quantitative analysis to identify trends and growth patterns in Indian Language Wikipedias over the time period from September 2012 to April 2013.
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Indian Newspapers' Digital Transition
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by
Zeenab Aneez
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published
Dec 09, 2016
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last modified
Dec 09, 2016 07:12 AM
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Digital News,
RAW Publications,
Researchers at Work,
Research,
Digital Media,
Featured,
Publications,
Homepage
This report examines the digital transition underway at three leading newspapers in India, the Dainik Jagran in Hindi, English-language Hindustan Times, and Malayala Manorama in Malayalam. Our focus is on how they are changing their newsroom organisation and journalistic work to expand their digital presence and adapt to a changing media environment. The report comes out of a collaboration between the CIS and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, and was supported by the latter. The research was undertaken by Zeenab Aneez, with contributions from Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Vibodh Parthasarathi, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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Indic Language Wikipedias — Statistical Report — 2012
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by
Shiju Alex
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published
Jan 21, 2013
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last modified
Feb 03, 2013 02:40 AM
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Openness,
Featured,
Wikipedia,
Wikimedia
I have compiled the statistical update of the Indic language Wikipedias for the year 2012. As usual, in this report, my aim is to provide my perspectives on the health of various Indic language communities as well as the state of various Indic language wikipedias.
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Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #1: Visualising Basic Parameters
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by
Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Mar 26, 2013
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last modified
Mar 26, 2013 10:04 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Openness
Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay bring you a visualisation of the growth of Indic Wikipedia in this first post on Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project. In doing so, the authors look into the different aspects of the past and present activities of Indic Wikipedias, and divide the visualisation into three different focus areas.
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Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #2: Visualising Page Views and Project Pages
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by
Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 22, 2013
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last modified
Apr 22, 2013 01:37 PM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Openness
In this blog post, we bring you a visualisation of the page views statistics and the project specific pages that we created last month. The page views indicate the number of unique visits the Wikipedia project concerned has received in one month.
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Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Hrishikes Sen
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by
Jayanta Nath
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published
Apr 10, 2019
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last modified
Apr 26, 2019 06:42 AM
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CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Featured,
Wiki-librarian speak,
Wikisource
There are plenty of people engaged in digitising Bengali books. Plenty of pirated digitised books are available online. We need to tap into that catchment area. I think, if we can prepare high-grade pdf versions of our completed works and spread those to various online non-wiki reader communities, we are likely to get good contributors. -- User:Hrishikes from English and Bengali Wikisource community, share his journey.
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Institute for Internet & Society 2014, Pune
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by
Samantha Cassar
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published
Mar 07, 2014
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last modified
Apr 07, 2014 11:31 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Researchers at Work,
Wikipedia,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Wikimedia,
Openness,
Homepage
Last month, activists, journalists, researchers, and members of civil society came together at the 2014 Institute for Internet & Society in Pune, which was hosted by CIS and funded by the Ford Foundation. The Institute was a week long, in which participants heard from speakers from various backgrounds on issues arising out of the intersection of internet and society, such as intellectual property, freedom of expression, and accessibility, to name a few. Below is an official reporting summarizing sessions that took place.
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