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CoinFest 2016: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 04, 2016 — filed under: Openness, Event
Coinsecure and India Bitcoin have joined hands to organize to organize CoinFest at the Centre for Internet & Society's Bangalore office on Saturday, April 10, 2016, from 4.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.
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Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals in India: Availability and Openness of Data (Part II): by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Apr 12, 2016 — filed under: Development, Open Data, Open Government Data, Data Revolution, Openness, Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an internationally agreed upon set of developmental targets to be achieved by 2030. There are 17 SDGs with 169 targets, and each target is mapped to one or more indicators as a measure of evaluation. In this and the next blog post, Kiran AB is documenting the availability and openness of data sets in India that are relevant for monitoring the targets under the SDGs. This post offers the findings for the last 10 Goals. The first 7 has already been discussed in the earlier post.
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Free Software: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 24, 2013 — last modified Jul 31, 2013 08:50 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
To spread awareness on free software and its philosophy, Free Software Movement of Karnataka (FSMK) in partnership with Jnana Vikas Institute of Technology, Bidadi, organized a 9-days workshop between July 20 and 28 at the Institute campus near Bidadi to focus on free software is real freedom to compute.
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Stress on posting articles on Kannada Wikipedia: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 02, 2013 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
A workshop to be held on CPDPS premises on August 6.
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ଓଡିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର କର୍ମଶାଳା ଅନୁଷ୍ଠିତ ହୋଇଯାଇଛି ବୀର ସୁରେନ୍ଦ୍ର ସାଏ ବୈଷୟିକ ବିଶ୍ୱବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟ, ବୁର୍ଲାରେ: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 29, 2013 — last modified Aug 05, 2013 08:25 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Odishan.com covered the Wikipedia event organized at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla on July 26 and 27, 2013.
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Wikipedia boom in vernacular languages: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 01, 2013 — last modified Aug 12, 2013 04:29 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The number of Wikipedia entries in vernacular languages has grown substantially in the last eight months
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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