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Report of Wiki Workshop in Mangalore
A wikipedia workshop was organized in Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, Mangalore on April 9, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the workshop. Prajavani's Mangalore edition published a report about the felicitation to K.P. Rao and about the wikipedia workshop.
Kannada Wikipedia Workshop, Mysore — Coverage in Prajavani
A Kannada Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet and Society in Mysore on March 24, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. Prajavani has published a report of the event on March 25, 2013.
Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013
The Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013 was held on March 8, 2013 at Servelots Infotech, Jayanagar in Bangalore. It was organized by Wikimedia India. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. The news was covered by Kannada Prabha on March 9, 2013.
Wikipedia at Avenir
A 4 hours Wikipedia event at Avenir, 2013 is being held at Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal on 11th March 2013. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting this event.
International Conference on Contours of Media Governance: Teaching, Disciplinarity, Methodology
The Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia organises an international conference on contours of media governance at Jamia Milla Islamia in New Delhi from February 25 to 27, 2013. The event is supported by Ford Foundation and ICSSR.
Wiki Meet-up in Bangalore: Talk by Vishnu Vardhan
Vishnu Vardhan, Director of Access to Knowledge team at CIS has been invited by the Bangalore SIG Chair. Vishnu will speak on the Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) project. The talk is scheduled for February 25, 2013 at 2.00 p.m. in Bangalore.
Rahul Cherian passes away
Rahul Cherian, an expert and policy activist in disability law, intellectual property (IP) law and technology law passed away on Thursday. He was 39.
Sanskrit Wikiquote — Now Available!
The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is happy to celebrate the availability of Sanskrit wikiquote.
Fifth International IPR Conference (GIPC 2013)
ITAG Business Solutions is organizing its Fifth International IPR conference "GIPC 2013" at Hotel LaLit Ashok, Bangalore, India on the theme "IPR: The Powerhouse of Tomorrow". Snehashish Ghosh is participating in the event and will speak on Pervasive Technologies: Access to Knowledge in the Market Place.
WIPO To Negotiate Treaty For The Blind In June; ‘Still Some Distance To Travel’
In a swift 15 minute session this morning delegates at the World Intellectual Property Organization extraordinary assembly agreed to convene a high-level meeting in Morocco in June to finalise a treaty on international exceptions to copyrights on books in special formats for visually impaired people.
International treaty to make books accessible to the blind
It would make it legal to send accessible books across borders.
A Report of Odia Wikipedia Workshop at IIT, Kharagpur
The Samaja, Odia daily, Kolkata edition, on December 3, 2012, published an article about the Odia Wikipedia Workshop organized in IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal.
વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી માં પણ છે
We've recently been featured in the Gujarati magazine on technology: Cybersafar. The below article was written by Harsh Kothari.
OdishaDiary conferred prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to Odia Wikipedia team
OdishaDiary (Orissadiary.com) conferred the prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to the team of contributors of Odia Wikipedia.
A Report of the Odia Wikipedia Workshop held in KMBB College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar
(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.
‘Some Indian laws could be challenging’
Wikipedia’s founder member Erik Möller says their principle is not to decide the map of India, but to explain that there is a controversy.
Entertainment industry and Internet piracy in focus
The first-of-its-kind initiative by the anti-piracy cell of the Kerala Police to register cases against 1,010 Internet users for uploading or downloading the Malayalam film Bachelor Party has sparked a debate between social media experts and legal puritans on what the law actually says.
Copyright Law: More Than A Moral Obligation
It was a cozy and warm atmosphere in a bookstore in South Delhi — with plenty of cushions thrown on the floor — that I attended a delightful book launch for children. The book was displayed prominently, along with some fabulous original illustrations done by the author, from which the book illustrator had been “inspired”. I clicked some photographs with my smartphone. The publishers, based in another city, couldn't attend the event. So, I thought why not mail it to them, they are fraternity. Soon, a newsletter popped into my mailbox from the same publisher, with a lovely write-up of the book launch accompanied by my photographs, but with no acknowledgement given to me. I was disappointed.
US and EU blocking treaty to give blind people access to books
Copyright fears stall talks on books being translated into braille for blind and visually impaired people in the global south.
U.S. support sought for treaty to allow blind people access to copyrighted works
Advocates of visual disability groups from across the world urged the United States to get off the fence at the global copyright negotiations in Geneva this week and actively back a strong treaty that allows blind people access to copyrighted published works.
