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December 2012 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 30, 2012 — last modified Jan 16, 2013 05:15 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Openness
We at the Centre for Internet & Society wish you all a great year ahead. In the December 2012 newsletter, we bring you the draft early chapters of our “National Resource Kit” project for persons with disabilities (covering four southern states); and accessibility-related comments on the Twelfth Five Year Plan; the draft research on pervasive technologies and access to knowledge that we presented at the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest in Brazil; our comments on the privacy implications of including RFID tags in the proposed Rule 138A of the Motor Vehicle Rules, a report on the open access lectures delivered by Prof. Leslie Chan during his tour of India, reports of Wikipedia-related workshops conducted across three cities, and news and media coverage.
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Open Access Champion Leslie Chan Delivers Five Talks in India: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 30, 2012 — last modified Jan 02, 2013 05:35 AM — filed under: Openness
Professor Leslie Chan, a champion of Open Access (OA) and Associate Director of the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough visited Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore in December 2012 for a series of lectures. Well known advocate for OA in India and the developing world, Professor Subbiah Arunachalam, accompanied him on these tours.
Located in Openness / Blog
A Wikipedia Workshop at NMAIT: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Dec 30, 2012 — last modified Jan 04, 2013 04:30 PM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi collaborated with Metawings Institute to spread the words about Wikipedia for Indian languages. A one-day workshop was organized to educated the students on contributing to Wikipedia on December 21, 2012. About 170 engineering students took part in this event.
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New Avenues: Media Wiki Groups: by Noopur Raval — published Dec 27, 2012 — last modified Jan 05, 2013 01:46 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
This blog post is a brief recap and snippets of my conversation with Harsh Kothari, a volunteer on Gujarati Wikipedia on what we've been doing to help with MediaWiki groups.
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A Wikipedia Workshop at SRM University, Chennai: by Noopur Raval — published Dec 27, 2012 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
The Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi in association with Metawings Institute organized a one-day workshop on contributing to Wikipedia at SRM University on December 17, 2012. About 40 students from different engineering colleges in Chennai participated in the workshop. Metawings coordinated for the logistics and for spreading the word among the students.
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Access to Knowledge Workshop @ NMAMIT, Karkala Taluk, Karnataka: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 19, 2012 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness, Event
The Centre for Internet & Society in collaboration with Metawing Technologies (P) Ltd. is organizing a Wikipedia workshop at NMAMIT, Karkala Taluk, Karnataka on December 21, 2012, from 9.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
Located in Openness / Events
Non Unicode ISCII Text Can be Converted to Unicode Now!: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Dec 19, 2012 — last modified Dec 21, 2012 09:59 AM — filed under: Openness, Featured, Wikipedia, Wikimedia
Odia Wikipedian Manoj Sahukar has designed a new tool which can convert non Unicode ISCII text to Odia Unicode text. A majority of the digitized text and web content of newspapers and books are in non unicode text which now could be used for Wikipedia and other Odia Wiki projects. This opens a new arena for digitized free license books in Odia language.
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Leslie Chan Lectures in Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 12, 2012 — last modified Dec 12, 2012 06:26 AM — filed under: Openness
Prof. Leslie Chan from the University of Toronto, Canada is giving a series of lectures in Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore from December 17, 2012 to December 19, 2012.
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Random Hacks of Kindness Global December 2012 — A Report: by Yogesh Londhe — published Dec 10, 2012 — last modified Jan 08, 2013 04:12 PM — filed under: Openness
A Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) hackathon in Bangalore was hosted at office of the Center for Internet and Society (CIS) in Domlur on December 1 and 2, 2012. CIS, Amnesty International India Office, Greenpeace India Office, HasGeek, Yahoo Research & Development and SimpleTechLife sponsored the event.
Located in Openness / Blog
Marathi Wiki Workshop at Tata Institute of Social Sciences: by Nitika Tandon — published Dec 08, 2012 — last modified Feb 04, 2013 04:55 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai is taking up a number of activities and conducting workshops focusing on Indian languages across cities. A series of workshops in Marathi, Kannada and Bangla have been planned with Wikipedia sessions in each of these events.
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