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Discussion on Open Standards with Bernd Erk and Jiten Vaidya
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Jul 04, 2019
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Rootconf organised a discussion on open standards at CIS Bangalore office. Zainab Bawa, Karan Saini and Anwesha Das coordinated and organised the event.
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Rootconf 2019
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Jun 22, 2019
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Jul 05, 2019 12:52 AM
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Open Source
Karan Saini participated in the annual Rootconf conference held by HasGeek on June 21 and 22, 2019. This conference was held at the NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bangalore, India.
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Open Data and Land Ownership
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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May 22, 2019
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May 22, 2019 11:32 AM
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Open Data,
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Openness
In this chapter of the recently published volume on State of Open Data, Tim Davies and Sumandro Chattapadhyay discuss how the lessons from the land ownership field highlight the political nature of data, and illustrate the importance of politically aware interventions when creating open data standards, infrastructure, and ecosystems. State of Open Data, edited by Tim Davies, Stephen B. Walker, Mor Rubinstein, and Fernando Perini, is published by African Minds and International Development Research Centre, Canada.
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Sunil Abraham - Key Listener Speech at Wikimedia Summit 2019
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Sunil Abraham
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May 04, 2019
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May 04, 2019 03:34 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Summit 2019 – formerly known as "Wikimedia Conference" or "Chapters Meeting" – took place on 29–31 March 2019 in Berlin. Sunil Abraham made a speech at the summit organized in Berlin.
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Design and the Open Knowledge Movement
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Saumyaa Naidu
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Mar 31, 2019
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Apr 01, 2019 12:13 PM
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Design,
Openness,
Education,
Homepage
With the objective of connecting the open knowledge movement with design, the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society co-organised the Wikigraphists Bootcamp India 2018 with the Wikimedia Foundation during September 28-30, 2018 in New Delhi. The event was held at the School of Design at Ambedkar University Delhi. As part of the bootcamp, a panel discussion was held in order to bring together design practitioners, educators, open knowledge contributors, and design students to explore how design and open knowledge communities can engage with each other. In this post, Saumyaa Naidu shares the learnings from the panel discussion aimed at exploring the potential collaborations between design and the open knowledge movement.
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Talks by Richard Abisla and Kaliya Young
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Feb 28, 2019
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Mar 07, 2019 11:59 PM
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Open Data,
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Openness
The Centre for Internet & Society will be hosting public talks by Richard Abisla and Kaliya Young, who are both 2019 India-U.S. Public Interest Technology Fellows at New America at its Bangalore office on March 4, 2019.
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Marathi Language Fortnight Workshops 2019
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Subodh Kulkarni
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Feb 26, 2019
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Mar 01, 2019 12:39 AM
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Marathi Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Maharashtra is a state which is rich in diversity in terms of language and culture seen in its various regions such as Konkan, Marathwada, Western Maharashtra, Northern Maharashtra and Vidarbha. Awareness needs to be created to make Wikimedia movement inclusive and diverse in these geographical regions as well as in their social strata.
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Goa University students update ‘Goa’ Marathi articles on Wikipedia
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Feb 22, 2019
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness
Faculty and students of Goa University’s Marathi department have updated 164 Marathi articles on Wikipedia related to Goa recently.
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News & Media
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Lecture on Open Access and Open Content Licensing at ICAR (short course)
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Nov 22, 2018
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Dec 05, 2018 04:19 PM
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Open Access,
Access to Knowledge
The ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) a constituent establishment of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) organised a short course on 'ICTs for Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness in Agricultural Research, Education and Extension of NARES' during November 13-22, 2018 in Bangalore. Anubha Sinha delivered a lecture to the participants.
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Digital Technology Engaging Pedagogy through Hindi Wikipedia - A Case Study
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Dr. George Joseph,Dr. Sebastian K.A, and Kavitha A
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Oct 28, 2018
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness,
Hindi Wikipedia
We have published an article in International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities. The article is titled "Digital Technology Engaging Pedagogy through Hindi Wikipedia - A Case Study". The authors of the article are Hindi faculty members of Christ University and Ananth Subray from the Centre for Internet & Society provided research assistance.
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