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November 2012 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 30, 2012 — last modified Jan 06, 2013 01:59 PM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Openness, Researchers at Work
Welcome to the newsletter of November 2012 from the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). The present issue features an analysis of Section 66A of the IT Act by Pranesh Prakash, comments on the draft Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, an introduction to 12 mobile devices that we are researching as part of the Pervasive Technologies project, submissions of civil society in relation to the revision of International Telecommunication Regulations that are to take place at the ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai, updates from the Wikipedia community on Indic languages, and news and media coverage.
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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — October 2012 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 29, 2012 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 08:19 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Newsletter
This is the second bulletin from the Access to Knowledge team of CIS in Delhi. This issue features education program updates of the Assamese, Malayalam and Gujarati Wiki communities, a hackathon held at BITS, Hyderabad, press coverage of the Odia Wikipedia workshop in Pune, and reports of workshops organised in Bangalore, Ghaziabad and Pune during the month of October.
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વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી માં પણ છે: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 28, 2012 — last modified Dec 07, 2012 10:36 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
We've recently been featured in the Gujarati magazine on technology: Cybersafar. The below article was written by Harsh Kothari.
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Autonomy, Access, Infrastructure and Future — A Discussion with C S Lakshmi on the SPARROW Archive: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 26, 2012 — last modified Dec 05, 2012 10:22 AM — filed under: Openness, Event
What does it take to build an archive? Why build archives in the first place? What kind of challenges do archives created through independent initiatives face in terms of infrastructure, autonomy, access and futures? On Thursday, November 29, 2012, the Centre for Internet and Society and HasGeek present a Q&A session with Dr. C S Lakshmi, founder of SPARROW in Mumbai.
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OdishaDiary conferred prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to Odia Wikipedia team: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 23, 2012 — last modified Dec 05, 2012 04:55 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
OdishaDiary (Orissadiary.com) conferred the prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to the team of contributors of Odia Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Women's Workshop in Mumbai: by Noopur Raval — published Nov 21, 2012 — last modified Dec 03, 2012 06:01 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
The Wiki Women Workshop was organized at the Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Wadala in Mumbai on November 4, 2012. It was attended by over 60 women participants who were taught how to contribute to Wikipedia articles and briefed about the knowledge gaps in Wikipedia — the free encyclopedia. Noopur Raval has prepared a report of the event.
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A Report of the Odia Wikipedia Workshop held in KMBB College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 19, 2012 — last modified Dec 07, 2012 10:37 PM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
(By Debapriya Priyadashi Chakra) Sambad, Odisha's most widely read and largest circulated daily, on November 19, 2012, published an article about the Odia Wikipedia workshop organized in KMBB College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
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An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB College, Bhubaneswar: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 19, 2012 — last modified Dec 07, 2012 10:40 PM — filed under: Higher Education, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Video, Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society along with Odia Wikipedians in Bhubaneswar organized an Odia Wikipedia workshop on November 18, 2012. It was held in KMBB College of Engineering. Odia Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia in Odia language which everyone can edit.
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Science Gallery Workshop @ Srishti: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 19, 2012 — last modified Dec 04, 2012 03:42 PM — filed under: Openness
Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology is organizing a workshop to discuss the exciting potential of envisaging a Science Gallery in Bangalore as a part of the Global Science Gallery Network. Sunil Abraham is participating in this workshop.
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Follow up to Wikipedia Introductory Session at Bharati Vidyapeeth — More Interested and More Involved Participants: by Nitika Tandon — published Nov 19, 2012 — last modified Oct 30, 2013 09:17 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
A Wikipedia introductory session was organised at Bharati Vidyapeeth Engineering College in Delhi early this year and a follow up session was organised by CIS on November 19, 2012. About 12 to 15 participants attended the follow up session. Although most of the participants had attended the introductory session there were a few who were coming over for the first time.
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