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CBGA - Consultation on Opening Up Access to Budget Data in India (Delhi, January 27): by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Jan 27, 2017 — last modified Jan 27, 2017 05:45 AM — filed under: Open Data, Open Government Data, Openness
Open Budgets India, a comprehensive and user-friendly open data portal to provide free, easy, and timely access to relevant data on budgets, has been developed by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA) in collaboration with a number of other organisations. CBGA is organising a Consultation on “Opening Up the Access to Budget Data in India” on Friday, January 27, 2017, to launch the beta version of the portal. Sumandro Chattapadhyay will be a speaker in the panel discussion that will follow the launch.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Celebrating 5 Years of CIS: by Prasad Krishna — published May 03, 2013 — last modified Feb 25, 2014 09:15 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Openness, Researchers at Work, Event
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is celebrating 5 years of its existence with an exhibition showcasing its activities and accomplishments. The exhibition will be held at its offices in Bangalore and Delhi from May 20 to 23, 2013.
Located in Internet Governance / Events
Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's Ninth Anniversary: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 19, 2013 — last modified Feb 28, 2013 04:32 AM — filed under: Openness, Featured, Wikipedia, Wikimedia
Odia Wikipedia saw its first edit on January 29, 2004. After a dormancy of many years it got revived in 2011. To commemorate the effort of many volunteer wikipedians, a celebratory event was organized on January 29, 2013 in Bhubaneswar. Subhashish Panigrahi participated in this event.
Located in Openness / Blog
Celebrating the success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Jan 21, 2013 — last modified Apr 16, 2013 12:48 PM — filed under: Digital Activism, Access to Knowledge, Digital Access, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Youth, Video, Open Access, Openness, Event
Wikipedia Club Pune, a local community based outreach user group in Pune has recently organized Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013 to spread words about “Spoken Wikipedia”, a project to add recorded audio for Indic language Wikipedia articles which will help the disabled to access Wikipedia and “Bridging Editor Gender Gap.”
Located in Openness / Blog
Centre should partner local communities in 'Digital India': Expert: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 16, 2015 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The central government needs to partner communities at the grassroots level and integrate the country's vernacular component to make the Digital India initiative a success, an expert said here Friday.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Chemistry research in India 'still not in big league': by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 28, 2017 — filed under: Openness
Despite an increase in research output and international collaboration, chemistry research, "the central science", in India is "still not in the big league", an analysis has revealed.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Christ University Wikipedia Education Program Faculty Orientation Report: by Ananth Subray — published Jul 07, 2017 — last modified Aug 03, 2017 04:45 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikipedia Education Program, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness
Christ University faculty were given an orientation for the upcoming year on the Wikipedia Education Program
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Christ University Wikipedia Education Program Internship: by Manasa Rao and Ananth Subray — published Jul 05, 2017 — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikipedia Education Program, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikipedia, Openness, Hindi Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Christ University Wikipedia Education Program Internship: by Manasa Rao — published Dec 11, 2017 — last modified Dec 14, 2017 08:55 AM — filed under: CIS-A2K, Access to Knowledge, Wikipedia Education Program, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikipedia, Urdu Wikipedia, Openness, Hindi Wikipedia, Tulu Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
CIS anniversary: by Prasad Krishna — published May 06, 2013 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Openness, Researchers at Work
The Centre for Internet and Society will celebrate five years of its existence with an exhibition showcasing its works and accomplishments.
Located in News & Media

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