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February 2013 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 28, 2013 — last modified Mar 11, 2013 05:35 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Openness, Researchers at Work
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) wishes you a great year ahead and welcomes you to the second issue of its newsletter for the year 2013. In this issue we bring you an overview of our research programs, updates of events organised by us, events we participated in, news and media coverage, and videos of some of our recent events.
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February 2014 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 28, 2014 — last modified Apr 07, 2014 07:27 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Digital Humanities, Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) welcomes you to the second issue of its newsletter (February) for the year 2014:
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Feedback on the Framework on OSS Adoption in E-Governance Systems: by Nehaa Chaudhari — published Oct 28, 2013 — filed under: Openness, Feedback, Access to Knowledge
CIS gave its feedback to the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) on the Framework on Open Source Software Adoption in E-Governance Systems on October 26, 2013.
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Fifty-fourth Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore: by Noopur Raval — published Feb 28, 2013 — last modified Mar 06, 2013 09:09 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The 54th Wikimedia meet-up in Bangalore was held at the Indian Institute of Management on February 25, 2013. The event was planned and organized by Radhakrishna Arvapally, SIG (Special Interest Group) Chair, Bangalore (a part of the Wikimedia India Chapter) with support from Solutions IQ, Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS.
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First ever Train-the-Trainer Program in India: by Nitika Tandon — published Dec 05, 2013 — last modified Dec 31, 2013 12:18 PM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Access to Knowledge Programme at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) organized the first ever Train the Trainer Program in India. 20 Wikimedians from 8 different language communities and 10 different cities across India attended CIS-A2K’s Train the Trainer (TTT).
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First Odia Wikipedia Education Program concludes at IIMC, Dhenkanal: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 29, 2013 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Wikimedia
The first Odia Wikipedia Education program ended yesterday at Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Dhenkanal with distribution of certificates to the participants.
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First Odia Wikipedia Education Program to be Rolled Out: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 30, 2012 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 12:17 PM — filed under: Higher Education, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Video, Openness
Odia Wikipedians gathered at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Dhenkanal on November 8, 2012 to start the first Odia Wikipedia Education Program. This program aims to bring students edit articles on Odia Wikipedia through a series of assessments by professors. The local community members from Nalconagar would be supporting the four month program.
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First Pune Odia Wikipedia Workshop Organized!: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 31, 2012 — last modified Nov 30, 2012 12:44 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Video, Openness
The first Pune Odia Wikipedia workshop was organized in Pune on October 27, 2012. Subhashish Panigrahi recollects his experience about the events through this report.
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First Urdu Wikipedia Workshop at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad: by Syed Muzammiluddin — published Mar 04, 2014 — last modified Apr 07, 2014 01:06 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Urdu Wikipedia, Openness
During the second week of February, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore received a call from Dr Faheemuddin, Assistant Professor, Department of Translation Studies, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad requesting an Urdu Wikipedia Workshop in University. We were informed of special interest of Dr Zafaruddin , Head, Department of Translation studies in holding the event as any effort aimed at expanding the Urdu Wikipedia will benefit the Urdu language community across the world.
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Follow up to Wikipedia Introductory Session at Bharati Vidyapeeth — More Interested and More Involved Participants: by Nitika Tandon — published Nov 19, 2012 — last modified Oct 30, 2013 09:17 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
A Wikipedia introductory session was organised at Bharati Vidyapeeth Engineering College in Delhi early this year and a follow up session was organised by CIS on November 19, 2012. About 12 to 15 participants attended the follow up session. Although most of the participants had attended the introductory session there were a few who were coming over for the first time.
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