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OCR and OER – update
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Sep 25, 2015
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Jun 18, 2016 05:09 PM
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Open Educational Resources,
Openness,
Access to Knowledge
We welcome this short posting from Subhashish Panigrahi which updates a 2014 posting of his on Indic Language Wikipedias as Open Educational Resources at http://education.okfn.org/indic-language-wikipedias-as-open-educational-resources/
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Blogs
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Transformaking 2015 : International Summit on Critical and Transformative Making, Yogyakarta
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by
Sharath Chandra Ram
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published
Sep 20, 2015
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 06:00 PM
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Openness,
Access to Knowledge
Transformaking 2015 brought together makers, scientist, hackers, bricoleurs, researchers, artists, designers and other interdisciplinary practitioners from across the globe in a series of Residency and Research Program, Symposium, Exhibition, Fair, and Satellite Projects. It was held from August 10 to September 20, 2015. Transformaking 2015 was organized by HONF Foundation & CATEC (Culture Arts Technoloy Empowerment Community) in partnership with the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS), Common Room, Crosslab, and Nicelab.
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Software Freedom Day 2015, Bengaluru
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Sep 18, 2015
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last modified
May 02, 2020 04:38 PM
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filed under:
Openness
We are celebrating Software Freedom Day in Bengaluru this 19 September 2015.
Time & Date: 3 pm, 19 September 2015
Venue: Centre for Internet and Society,
194, 2nd C Cross, Domlur 2nd Stage,
Bengaluru 560071
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Events
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Mini Unconference on Openness in Development, Bangalore
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 18, 2015
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filed under:
Openness,
Event
Singapore Internet Research Centre and the Centre for Internet & Society are partnering together to hold a mini unconference session on Openness in Development on Day 2 of SIRCA III workshop.
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"Sau Dhuni Teen" project: Wikipedia workshop in TISS, Mumbai
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by
Abhinav Garule
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published
Sep 14, 2015
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last modified
Mar 16, 2016 11:31 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Wikimedia
A two-day multilingual Wikipedia workshop is being planned to be organised at the Women's Studies Department of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai during the 22nd through the 24th August.
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International Open Data Charter: Comments by CIS
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Sep 08, 2015
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filed under:
Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Featured,
Policies,
Openness,
International Open Data Charter
The second meeting of Stewards of the International Open Data Charter is in progress in Santiago, Chile, where the revisions made to the Charter based on the comments received during the public consultation period that ended on July 31, 2015, are being re-discussed and finalised by the Stewards. Here we are sharing the comments submitted by us on the first public draft of the Charter published during the International Open Data Conference in Ottawa, Canada, in May 2015. The comments include those submitted by Sumandro and Sharath Chandra Ram.
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Workshop on Open Data for Human Development - Sessions Report
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Aug 26, 2015
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last modified
Aug 28, 2015 08:16 AM
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filed under:
Open Data,
Open Government Data,
Featured,
Sikkim Open Data Acquisition and Accessibility Policy,
Openness
CIS facilitated a workshop on open data policy and tools for government officials from Sikkim, Meghalaya, and Tripura, and those from Bhutan and Maldives, in June 2015. The workshop was co-facilitated with Akvo, DataMeet, and Mapbox, and was supported by International Centre for Human Development of UNDP India. Here we share the workshop report and other related documents. The report is written by Sumandro, along with Amitangshu Acharya of Akvo.
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Survey of Estimates of Economic Value of Open Government Data
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by
Ömer Faruk Sarı
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published
Aug 22, 2015
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last modified
Aug 22, 2015 08:42 AM
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filed under:
Open Government Data,
Digital Economy,
Open Data,
Economics,
Openness
This is a survey of estimates of economic value of open government data, and public sector information in general, across regions, countries, and sectors offered by several reports published during the last decade. The survey is undertaken by Ömer Faruk Sarı, a student of Business Administration at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey, and research intern with CIS.
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Journalism Students of the SDM College Ujire Enrich Karnataka’s Folklore And Folk Art in Kannada Wikipedia
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U.B.Pavanaja
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Aug 18, 2015
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last modified
Sep 15, 2015 09:09 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Wikipedia,
Kannada Wikipedia,
Wikimedia
As part of an ongoing partnership with the Shree Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) College Ujjire, with active support from a few Kannada Wikipedia editors, CIS-A2K began an outreach programme so that the journalism students could help many Kannada readers about Karnataka’s rich folklore and folk art.
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Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore to bring Tulu Wikipedia live
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by
U.B.Pavanaja
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published
Aug 18, 2015
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last modified
Sep 15, 2015 09:07 AM
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Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Workshop,
Openness,
Tulu Wikipedia
A Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised in Mangalore, Karnataka this 14th to encourage more Tulu-language speakers to contribute to Tulu Wikipedia. Tulu Wikipedia is is currently in the Incubator but the enthusiastic editor community is putting their best effort to bring it live out of Incubator. This edit-a-thon is one of the many activities the Tulu Wikimedia community has organised.
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