Blogs
CIS-A2K Communication Officer position
- May 19, 2019
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is seeking applications only from prospective candidates who identify themselves as women, for the position of Programme Officer (Communications, the position is also known as Communication Officer), to support its Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Programme. The job application is open to women only because we feel that a woman communications person will contribute more towards bridging the gender gap in the Wikimedia movement by emphasising on gender-sensitive communication apart from contributing internally for bringing a gender balance in the team.
Read more →Wikidata Advisor (Consultant) position open
- May 16, 2019
The Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet and Society is seeking applications for the position of Wikidata Advisor (consultant), to support its Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Programme.
Read more →Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program/Report
- May 01, 2019
CIS-A2K team submitted Project Tiger final report.
Read more →CIS-A2K proposal to Wikimedia Foundation for 2019-2020
- April 15, 2019
The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) has submitted its proposal form for the year 2019 - 2020 to the Wikimedia Foundation. CIS thanks all community members who gave valuable suggestions and inputs for drafting this proposal.
Read more →Indic Wikisource speak : Ajit Kumar Tiwari
- April 10, 2019
"Wikisource is going to be as important as Wikipedia because it addresses the issues of citations and references inherently. I will make it as my key pedagogical tool to educate my students and make them a part of this great movement." - Hindi Wiki-librarian Ajit Kumar Tiwari ( अजीत कुमार तिवारी ) share his experience about Hindi Wikisource which approved by Language committee of Wikimedia Foundation Inc , US for separate domain on February 2019.
Read more →Indic Wikisource Speak: Sushant Savla
- April 10, 2019
Future is bright -- Sushant Savla (User:Sushant_savla) from Gujarati Wikisource community, share his experience & journey.
Read more →SVG Translation Workshop at KBC North Maharashtra University
- April 10, 2019
The Centre for Internet & Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) wing organized an SVG translation workshop in collaboration with KBC North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon on 14-15 March 2019. The workshop was a part of India level campaign. Total 58 participants attended the workshop and contributed to Commons till 31 March 2019.
Read more →Content Donation Sessions with Authors
- April 10, 2019
CIS-A2K has adopted an integrated approach towards knowledge generation in Marathi language. With the involvement of various stakeholders in different programmes, CIS-A2K facilitated a comprehensive workshop for publishers, printers, designers and writers on 7 September 2018.
Read more →Wikimedia projects orientation session at Tata Trust's Vikas Anvesh Foundation
- April 09, 2019
Researchers in development sector produce a pool of training material and case studies. However, these do not trickle down to the society and many in the public domain are unaware of the same.
Read more →Comments and Suggestions to the Draft Patent Manual March 2019
- April 05, 2019
A coordinated civil society response to the consultation on the Patent Manual. CIS provided comments on patenting of computer related inventions.
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