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World Book Day: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 23, 2014 — last modified May 05, 2014 09:33 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Dr. U.B.Pavanaja was one of the speakers on the program arranged on account of World Book Day by Karnataka Publishers’ Association at the Indian Institute of World Culture, Basavanagudi.
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World Book Day (Coverage in Vijayavani): by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 23, 2014 — last modified May 05, 2014 09:40 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event as a speaker. A scanned version of the report is below:
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World Day Against Software Patents: by Pranesh Prakash — published Jan 10, 2010 — last modified Jan 16, 2013 07:15 AM — filed under: Software Patents, Access to Knowledge
A global coalition of more than 80 software companies, associations and developers has declared the 24th of September to be the "World Day Against Software Patents". The Hindu, a national daily dedicated one page of its Bangalore edition to software patents and software freedom. Deepa Kurup contributed written two articles titled "Will patenting take the byte out of IT here?" and "How would it be if you read only one type of book?" which reflects some of the concerns of the Free/Libre/Open Source Software community.
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World IT Forum 2009: by Pranesh Prakash — published Sep 08, 2009 — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:44 AM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Knowledge
At the World IT Forum, Pranesh Prakash made a brief presentation on intellectual property rights, how ill-suited they are to be considered "property" rights, and how they have been foisted upon the developing world.
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Writing skills improve with Wikipedia editing: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 15, 2016 — filed under: Wikimedia, CIS-A2K, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Pavan Santhosh said that contributing to Wikipedia and working in Wikimedia community improves our leadership qualities and writing skills. In an awareness session conducted about "You can edit Wikipedia" in JKC college, Guntur, Santhosh explained how to create and improve articles about Wikipedia in this program. Principal I.Nageswara Rao presided over this meeting.
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WTO-MC11 in Buenos Aires: What is at Stake for India and its People: by Admin — published Nov 24, 2017 — last modified Nov 24, 2017 02:09 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge
On November 21, 2017, Anubha Sinha attended a civil society workshop on "WTO-MC11 in Buenos Aires: What is at Stake for India and its People". The workshop was co-organised by the Third World Network, Focus on the Global South, South-Solidarity Initiative of Action Aid, and the Forum on FTAs at the Seminar Hall 1 & 2, New Block, India International Centre, 40 Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi.
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Yogyakarta Meeting on Open Culture and Critical Making: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 12, 2014 — last modified Jul 03, 2014 08:57 AM — filed under: Openness, Access to Knowledge
Sharath Chandra Ram will be part of the ASIA LABS theme panel and will also be doing community FOSS/FOSH workshops at the Maker events at the event organized by HONF Foundation, Catec, and r0g from June 12 to 15, 2014.
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You Too Can Write on Wikipedia! — Training workshop: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 04, 2013 — last modified Dec 06, 2013 07:55 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Event
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team in collaboration with Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation and National Institute of Tourims and Hospitality Management is organizing a two-days training workshop (December 5-6, 2013) in Gachibowli, Hyderabad.
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Youth is responsible for protecting Telugu: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 31, 2016 — last modified Feb 05, 2016 08:49 PM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Telugu Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
G. Umamaheshwara Rao, head of linguist research at Hyderabad Central university observed that there is every possibility for Telugu to be extinct soon. Its responsibility of youth to protect and preserve the language. And it is Wikipedia which would help in doing so.
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Youths come forward to augment Assamese Wikisource project: by NE NOW NEWS — published May 21, 2019 — filed under: Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Assamese Wikisource is a sister-project of Assamese Wikipedia, where Assamese books with expired copyrights are available.
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