CIS-A2K
The key mandate of the Access to Knowledge project at CIS (CIS-A2K) is to work towards catalysing the growth of the open knowledge movement in south Asia and in Indic languages. From September 2012, CIS has been actively involved in growing the open knowledge movement in India through a grant received from the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). The current focus of the CIS-A2K team spans over 5 language areas (Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Odia, and Telugu), 2 community strengthening initiatives, and 6 stand-alone Wikimedia projects.
Mission
The mission of CIS-A2K is to catalyze the growth of open knowledge movement in South Asia and in Indic languages. Within the Wikimedia universe CIS-A2K specifically strives to further grow the Indic and English Wikimedia projects and communities by:
- supporting and serving the Indian Wikimedia communities in all possible ways;
- building institutional partnerships;
- bringing more content under free license;
- designing and executing projects with community participation;
- strengthening the Wikimedia volunteers; and
- fostering and enabling an appropriate legal and technological ecosystem.
Work Plans
Work plans and other programme documents can be accessed here:
- Work Plan July 2014 - June 2015
- Work Plan April 2013 - June 2014
- Work Plan 2012 - 2013
- Work Plan 2011 - 2012
- Details of Programs run on English and Indian language Wikipedias since 2011
- Access To Knowledge Announcement and FAQ - 30 July 2012
Activities and Feedback
If you have a general proposal/suggestion for Access to Knowledge team you can write on the requests page. If you have appreciations or feedback on our work, please share it on feedback page.
- Workshops, Meetups, Edit-a-thons and other Events
- Events
- Blog Entries
- Newsletters, Reports, and Bulletins
- IRC
Recent Posts
- Architectures of Knowledge — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 30, 2016 02:44 PM
- Rohini Lakshane was a speaker at a workshop organized by Columbia's Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities at Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai.
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Edit-a-thon at DSERT Bengaluru to improve Science-related articles in Kannada Wikipedia
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Ananth Subray
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Aug 16, 2016 08:31 AM
- We have been working with the Department of State Educational Research and Training of Karnataka (DSERT), a Government of Karnataka-run research and training institution headquartered in Bengaluru. With the hope of expanding the reach of Science-related content in Kannada Wikipedia, we organised an edit-a-thon spanning over three days from the 11th January through the 13th.
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Online edit-a-thon on incidents in Telugu
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Subhashish Panigrahi and Pavan Santhosh
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Jul 11, 2016 04:23 PM
- A week-long online edit-a-thon was organised by the Telugu Wikipedia community to cover popular social, political and other events on the Telugu Wikipedia.
- ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିଅଭିଧାନରେ ଏକ ଲକ୍ଷ ଶବ୍ଦ — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 09, 2016 08:17 AM
- A news article on Odia Wiktionary's 11th anniversary that got published in Odia-language daily Sambad on June 18.
- The Digital Oxygen for Odia Language — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 09, 2016 07:52 AM
- The article was published in My City Links on July 4, 2016.
- ୧୧ ବର୍ଷରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିଅଭିଧାନ, ଯୋଡ଼ିହୋଇଛି ଲକ୍ଷେରୁ ଅଧିକ ଶବ୍ଦ — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 09, 2016 07:38 AM
- Odia Wikisource turned 11 on June 16. A news article was published about the project and the contributor community in Odia-language daily Prameya on June 17.
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Community celebrates birthday of Odia Wikipedia and Odia Wiktionary
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Jul 09, 2016 03:25 AM
- This June, Odia Wikipedia turned 14 and Odia Wiktionary turned 11. Odia Wikimedia community member Chinmayee Mishra, CIS-A2K Programme Associate Sailesh Patnaik and I co-authored this blog in the Wikimedia Blog. The blog chronicles several major activities of the community and features quotes from many old and new community members.
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Open source effort gives indigenous language an official typeface
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Subhashish Panigrahi
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Aug 03, 2016 02:00 AM
- Santali, an aboriginal South Asian language, has a brand new freely licensed font and set of cross-platform open source input tools on the way.
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ತರಬೇತಿ ಮಾಡಲು ತರಬೇತಿಗೊಂಡಾಗ.... CIS-A2K TTT 2016
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Dhanalakshmi K.T.
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Aug 03, 2016 01:19 AM
- Dhanalakshmi, a student from St Agnes College, Mangaluru, who was a participant of TTT 2016 has blogged her experience at Train-the-Trainer 2016 event organized by the Centre for Internet & Society earlier this year.
- Mini Train-the-trainer and Mediawiki Training for Marathi Wikimedians in Pune from May 28, 2016 10:00 AM to May 29, 2016 05:00 PM — Hotel Ambassador, FC Road, Pune, — by Abhinav Garule
- During May 28-29 in Pune, a two-day long train-the-trainer programme and a Mediawiki training are being organised for the contributors of the Marathi-language Wikimedia projects like Marathi Wikipedia and Marathi Wikisource.
