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Blog Entry The city of Bhubaneswar is going Open
by Sailesh Patnaik — published Mar 07, 2019 — filed under: ,
Bhubaneswar supporting the concept of Openness movement has joined as one of the ambassadors of the movement in the world by giving citizens the right to access the content online produced by the government and make use of the work.
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Blog Entry Wikimedia projects orientation session at Tata Trust's Vikas Anvesh Foundation
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Apr 09, 2019 — filed under: , ,
Researchers in development sector produce a pool of training material and case studies. However, these do not trickle down to the society and many in the public domain are unaware of the same.
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Blog Entry Content Donation Sessions with Authors
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Apr 10, 2019 — filed under: , ,
CIS-A2K has adopted an integrated approach towards knowledge generation in Marathi language. With the involvement of various stakeholders in different programmes, CIS-A2K facilitated a comprehensive workshop for publishers, printers, designers and writers on 7 September 2018.
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Blog Entry SVG Translation Workshop at KBC North Maharashtra University
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Apr 10, 2019 — last modified Apr 26, 2019 06:47 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) wing organized an SVG translation workshop in collaboration with KBC North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon on 14-15 March 2019. The workshop was a part of India level campaign. Total 58 participants attended the workshop and contributed to Commons till 31 March 2019.
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Blog Entry Indic Wikisource Speak: Dr. Gitartha Bordoloi
by Jayanta Nath — published Apr 10, 2019 — last modified Apr 17, 2019 08:10 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
"People are more aware of Wikipedia than Wikisource." - Gitartha Bordoloi from Assamese Wikisource community, share his experience with CIS-A2K team.
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Blog Entry Eight Challenges That Indian-Language Wikipedias Need to Overcome
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Mar 29, 2016 — last modified Mar 29, 2016 05:05 PM — filed under: , , ,
Even after a decade of existence, Indian language Wikipedias are not yet known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia, being the largest available encyclopedia made in the human history, it what it is today because of the hundreds and thousands of volunteer-editors. But while native-language Wikipedias are becoming game-changers in other corners of the world, the scenario in India is skewed. In my experience, here are a number of challenges that Indian-language Wikipedias are currently facing.
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Blog Entry 8 Challenges In Growing Indian-Language Wikipedias
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 31, 2016 — last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:11 PM — filed under: , , ,
While speaking at BHASHA: Indian Languages Digital Festival, a day-long discourse at New Delhi on Indian languages and their state in new media, especially digital platforms, I touched upon Wikipedia in Indian languages. Most people, in fact, do not even know that Wikipedia exists in many Indian languages.
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Blog Entry Patents and Mobile Devices in India: An Empirical Survey
by Rohini Lakshané — published Mar 31, 2016 — last modified Mar 29, 2017 04:03 AM — filed under: , ,
Though India has the second-largest wireless subscriber base in the world, with more than 150 mobile device vendors, it has, until recently, remained relatively unaffected by the global smartphone wars. Over the past three years, however, a growing number of patent enforcement actions have been brought by multinational firms against domestic Indian producers. These actions, which have largely resulted in judgments favoring foreign patent holders, have given rise to a variety of proposals for addressing this situation.
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Blog Entry Telugu Wikisource Workshop
by Pavan Santhosh — published Jul 24, 2017 — last modified Aug 16, 2017 08:40 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
Recently, a Telugu Wikisource Workshop was conducted in Hyderabad between 22- 23 July, 2017
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Blog Entry Dataset for "Patent Working Requirements and Complex Products: An Empirical Assessment of India's Form 27 Practice and Compliance"
by Rohini Lakshané — published Aug 17, 2017 — last modified Sep 10, 2017 03:11 PM — filed under: ,
Dataset of the first comprehensive and systematic analysis of 4,916 valid Statements of Working (Form 27) corresponding to 3,126 patents pertaining to mobile technology in India. Licensed CC-BY-SA 4.0.
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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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