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Sambad Health and Women Edit-a-thon: by Admin — published Apr 15, 2018 — last modified May 07, 2018 04:34 PM — filed under: Odia Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
Sambad Health and Women Edit-a-thon was an offline edit-a-thon held in the month of April in collaboration with the Sambad media house, Odia Wikimedia User Group and the Center for Internet and Society.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
Comment: India's NTP 2018 gets digital makeover but needs complimentary policies: by Admin — published May 12, 2018 — filed under: Access to Knowledge
Criticism notwithstanding, Indian bureaucratic mandarins—babus as they are referred to in local lingo—do come up with draft policies that are contemporaneous, and at times when it’s least expected.
Located in Telecom / News & Media
Kannada Wikipedia Workshop, Mysore — Coverage in Prajavani: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 25, 2013 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
A Kannada Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet and Society in Mysore on March 24, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. Prajavani has published a report of the event on March 25, 2013.
Located in News & Media
Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Vijaya Vani): by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 12, 2013 — last modified Sep 05, 2013 06:45 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
Prajavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.
Located in News & Media
Konkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 12, 2013 — last modified Sep 12, 2013 06:09 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
St. Aloysius College is organizing a Konkani Wikipedia workshop at AIMIT, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Beeri, Mangalore on September 13, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from the CIS-A2K team will participate in the event.
Located in News & Media
'Help Konkani Wikipedia come out of incubation': by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 17, 2013 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The functioning of the free online encyclopedia, ‘Wikipedia,’ is like a true democracy. It is for the people and by the people, said The Centre for Internet and Society Programme Officer (Indian Languages) Pavanaja U B.
Located in News & Media
Loyola Faculty Enlightened About Open Edn Resources: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 25, 2014 — last modified Jul 02, 2014 04:50 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
“The tremendous changes in the digital technology have introduced the newage faculty to certain open and collaborative tools like Wiki, termed as open educational resources (OER),” Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) progarmme director T Vishnu Vardhan has said.
Located in News & Media
SpicyIP Tidbit: India ratifies the Marrakesh Treaty for the Visually Impaired: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 02, 2014 — filed under: Accessibility, Access to Knowledge
In an encouraging step towards promoting accessibility among the differently abled, India became the first country to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled, 2013.
Located in News & Media
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.
Located in News & Media
Maher Reports on WIPO Copyright Deliberations: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 03, 2014 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, WIPO
SAA Past President and IPWG member William Maher represented the views of American archivists as a permanent observer at the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights meeting, December 16-20.
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