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Blog Entry Project Tiger 2.0
by Suswetha Kolluru and Nitesh Gill — published Nov 22, 2019 — last modified Nov 24, 2019 09:18 AM — filed under: , , ,
If you think that Indian languages are as important as international languages, like English, then, you are on the same page with this article. If not, then, let me explain, why it is a significant and much bigger issue than you think.
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October 2019 Newsletter
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 31, 2019 — last modified Dec 06, 2019 04:53 AM — filed under: ,
CIS newsletter for October 2019:
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Blog Entry Analysis on the strategies of Mozilla and Wiki communities on gender gap aspects
by Bhuvana Meenakshi — published Oct 03, 2019 — last modified Oct 03, 2019 11:56 AM — filed under: , , ,
There is a need for research on how Open Source communities are trying to balance the gender ratio and how they provide the safe space environment to its contributors. With this in mind I have come up with this blog as I am an active contributor of Mozilla since 5 years and also got myself recently introduced to Wikimedia and its sister projects, have interacted with few Indian women contributors in both of these communities and came out with a few observations on how I see them in India and what could be improved in both communities.
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September 2019 Newsletter
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 30, 2019 — last modified Dec 06, 2019 04:53 AM — filed under: ,
The newsletter for the month of September 2019.
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Bhuvana Meenakshi elected Mozilla Rep for July 2019
by Admin — published Sep 25, 2019 — filed under: ,
Bhuvana Meenakshi was selected as a Rep of the Month (July 2019) by Mozilla for my active contributions.
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August 2019 Newsletter
by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 31, 2019 — last modified Dec 06, 2019 04:54 AM — filed under: ,
Centre for Internet & Society newsletter for the month of August 2019.
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# NAMA Community Meet | Global Payments Ecosystem
by Admin — published Aug 19, 2019 — filed under:
Anubha Sinha attended the event organized by Medianama in Delhi on July 31, 2019.
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Blog Entry Call for joining the Free Knowledge movement #Wikipedia #Wikimedia
by Bhuvana Meenakshi — published Aug 19, 2019 — last modified Aug 20, 2019 07:15 AM — filed under: , , ,
Every little drop makes a Mighty ocean! Join us in this Free Knowledge movement where your contributions will be used world-wide.
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Blog Entry The Knowledge Base is Liberated
by Subodh Kulkarni and Madhav Gadgil — published Aug 05, 2019 — filed under: , ,
The article published in Sunday supplement of Loksatta newspaper of Express group, written jointly by Madhav Gadgil & Subodh Kulkarni summarises - the status of searchable open knowledge available on web, eagerness of youth generation across the social strata to access knowledge on new gadgets and the approaches to build resources in Marathi on web harnessing potential of Wikimedia projects. It also elaborates major three breakthroughs – Free & open source software movement, Unicode revolution and development of collaborative knowledge building and sharing free platforms like Wikimedia projects easily accessible to people in their own languages.
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Blog Entry Re-licensing Sessions with Authors and Organisations
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Jul 31, 2019 — last modified Aug 05, 2019 04:12 PM — filed under: , , ,
In collaboration with Marathi community, CIS-A2K is getting connected with various authors and organisations willing to re-license their content under CC-By-SA. A2K is facilitating the OTRS process Commons for re-licensing as well as digitisation of the content. The team of trained Wikimedians at Vigyan Ashram, Pabal, District Pune has taken the responsibility of digitising the books and further uploads in Wikimedia projects.
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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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