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Barcamp Bangalore
The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team participated in a Barcamp at SAP Labs, Bangalore on October 12, 2014. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja and Rahmanuddin Shaik participated in the event.
State Level Seminar on "Odia alphabet and order teaching in primary education"
Subhashish Panigrahi participated in a state-level seminar on "Number of Odia characters and order teaching in primary education" (ପ୍ରଥମ ଶ୍ରେଣୀରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଅକ୍ଷର ସଂଖ୍ୟା ଓ କ୍ରମଶିକ୍ଷା) co-organised by Institute of Odia Studies and Research, and Odia Bhasa Pratisthan in Bhubaneswar on September 14, 2014.
Publishing Next
T. Vishnu Vardhan was a speaker at Publishing Next organized by CinnamonTeal Publishing, a Margao (Goa)-based publishing house that provides publishing services to authors and publishers. The event was held in Goa on September 19 and 20.
Will domain dot भारत spur the growth of Indian languages on the internet?
Modi's effort to promote the use of Hindi and e-governance has given hope to those who want to see more vernacular content online, but many challenges have to be overcome.
Digital Publishing Meeting
As an initiative towards building a community, a meeting on digital publishing was conducted by C-DAC GIST Pune on August 22, 2014. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja attended the meeting.
ALC signs MoU for better net access
Andhra Loyola College (ALC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society – Access to Knowledge (CSI-A2K) here on Thursday.
Dot Bharat domain to roll out on August 21
Web addresses are set to get multilingual in India. Soon you will be able to type in addresses in a web browser in the Devnagri script – with “dot bharat” standing in for the currently common “dot in” domain to begin with. The roll-out of the same begins on August 21.
CIS-A2K Signs MoU with Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada: Coverage in Eenadu
This article was published in Enadu on August 15, 2014.
Now, Christ students will contribute to Wikipedia
The department of languages at Christ University has set a precedent by including contribution to Wikipedia as a part of the undergraduate course work.
Connecting the Next Two Billion: The Role of FOSS
Sunil Abraham was a speaker at this event organized by ICFOSS at the APrIGF in Noida on August 4, 2014.
'I'm going to ruin you, dear'
Revenge porn is sweeping across the developed world. And now it's being seen in India. The culprit, says Prasun Chaudhuri, is often a former friend, partner, relative or colleague.
Kannada Wikipedia Presentation for Kannada Science Writers
The following is the media coverage for the Kannada Wikipedia presentation at the Central University at Gulbarga on July 30,2014, in Gulbarga edition of Prajavani Kannada daily, dated July 31.
Kannada Wikipedia Presentation
The following is a scanned copy of the media coverage for the Kannada Wikipedia presentation at the Kannada Science Writers workshop at Gulbarga on July 29,2014, in Gulbarga edition of Vijayavani Kannada daily, dated July 30.
The joys of being a Wikipedian
Radha Krishna, an engineer, had always wanted to share information online so that people who wanted to learn more could just log in and benefit by reading his articles. Eight years ago he started his own website for this very purpose. But he found it hard to maintain the site. He then chanced upon Wikipedia, the largest open-source encyclopedia, which was then just becoming popular in the country.
'Trolled' from US Congress, Wikipedia bans edits
Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has issued a ten-day ban against an anonymous editor of its website located on the premises of the U.S. Congress, after the latter engaged in “disruptive editing,” on a wide range of subjects, from moon-landing conspiracy theories linked to Cuba to naming former U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as an alien wizard.
Open Knowledge Festival 2014
Subhashish Panigrahi represented India as the India Ambassador of OpenGLAM local in Berlin. The event was organized by Google, Omidyar, et.al., in Berlin from July 15 to 17, 2014.
Ministry of Science makes open access to research mandatory
Researchers who fail to meet the requirements would not considered for promotions, fellowships, future grants or appointments.
Telugu Wikipedia struggles to stay afloat
For a language that is spoken by 10 crore people, content is sparse.
Indian Govt looks to provide free access to publicly-funded research works
Sunil Abraham gave his inputs to the blog entry published in Medianama on July 23, 2014.
Font problem hits Odia
Focus on search for solution to lack of compatibility.
