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WIPO To Negotiate Treaty For The Blind In June; ‘Still Some Distance To Travel’
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 21, 2012 — last modified Dec 21, 2012 11:50 AM — filed under: , ,
In a swift 15 minute session this morning delegates at the World Intellectual Property Organization extraordinary assembly agreed to convene a high-level meeting in Morocco in June to finalise a treaty on international exceptions to copyrights on books in special formats for visually impaired people.
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Blog Entry WIPO Treaty for the Visually Impaired — Moving from a Treaty on Paper to a Treaty that is Workable on the Ground
by Rahul Cherian — published Sep 28, 2012 — filed under: , ,
After many years of hard lobbying by the World Blind Union, it appears that the WIPO Treaty on limitations and exceptions for visually impaired persons/persons with print disabilities (TVI) could become a reality next year. However, due to pressure from the European Union and the United States, and their insistence on several untenable provisions, there is a real risk that the TVI could become unworkable on the ground.
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WIPO: Scope and rights of potential broadcasting treaty clarified
by Prasad Krishna — published May 06, 2014 — last modified May 28, 2014 07:03 AM — filed under: ,
This post by Alexandra Bhattacharya was published in SUNS #7796 dated 5 May 2014.
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Blog Entry Women's Day Edit-a-thon at Jeewan Jyoti Women's Empowerment Centre, Pune
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Mar 10, 2017 — last modified Apr 10, 2017 04:04 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
Sterlite Tech Foundation and Jnana Prabodhini joined hands with the Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team to hold a Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Jeewan Jyoti Women's Empowerment Centre, Ambawane in Pune on March 10, 2017. Subodh Kulkarni was one of the trainers. The edit-a-thon was attended by 28 students.
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Blog Entry Women's Day Edit-a-thon at Jnana Prabodhini
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Mar 09, 2017 — last modified Apr 15, 2017 07:31 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
A Marathi Wikipedia Women's Day edit-a-thon was conducted in collaboration with Jnana Prabodhini to commemorate the celebration of International Women's Day.
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Blog Entry Women’s History Month: Sambad collaborates with Odia Wikipedia for a Two Day Edit-a-thon
by Sailesh Patnaik — published Mar 16, 2017 — last modified Mar 17, 2017 05:36 AM — filed under: , ,
Sambad's 100 Women Edit-a-thon: Two day edit-a-thon to increase quantity and quality of women-related articles on Odia Wikipedia
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Works of Odisha litterateur JP Das to be available online free
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 05, 2015 — last modified Jan 03, 2016 10:51 AM — filed under: , ,
The works of bureaucrat-turned-writer from Odisha, Jagannath Prasad Das, can be accessed free online after the digitisation process is complete.
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Works of Veerasalingam Pantulu on web
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 01, 2015 — filed under: , ,
Andhra Loyola College in association with Centre for Internet and Society (CIS- A2K) is conducting a six-day camp titled ‘Wiki Winter’ at Wikipedia Lab in the campus.
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Blog Entry Workshop of Publishers and Writers on Unicode, Open Source and Wikimedia Projects
by Admin — published Aug 11, 2018 — filed under: , , ,
CIS-A2K team organized a workshop on unicode, open source and wikimedia projects at Pune on July 25, 2018.
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Blog Entry Workshop of River activists for building Jal Bodh - Knowledge resource on Water
by Admin — published Jul 25, 2018 — last modified Aug 11, 2018 01:45 AM — filed under: , , ,
To build knowledge resource on rivers in Pune district, CIS-A2K team organized a workshop in Pune on July 25, 2018.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
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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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