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Blog Entry CIS Signs MoU with Goa University
by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 25, 2013 — last modified Sep 25, 2013 10:57 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Access to Knowledge (A2K) team from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has signed a MOU with the Goa University.
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Blog Entry Open Access: An Opportunity for Scientists around the Globe
by Subbiah Arunachalam — published Sep 26, 2013 — filed under: , ,
Researchers face two problems related to information access: making their own research more visible to researchers elsewhere and making worldwide research readily available to them. Open access (OA) can solve both of them.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry The Indian Council of Agricultural Research Adopts an Open Access Policy
by Nehaa Chaudhari — published Sep 30, 2013 — filed under:
In this blogpost, Nehaa Chaudhari discusses the newly adopted Open Access Policy of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
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Blog Entry Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project
by Nitika Tandon — published Sep 25, 2013 — last modified Oct 01, 2013 12:23 PM — filed under: , , , ,
The Centre for Internet and Society in collaboration with the University of Goa invite you to a two-month project on digitization of Konkani Vishwakosh. Please send in your applications by October 5, 2013.
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Blog Entry Making Wikipedia Better
by Pooja Saxena and Nirbheek Chauhan — published Oct 14, 2013 — last modified Oct 25, 2013 07:30 AM — filed under: , , ,
It wasn’t something that we set out to do when we started working on The Ballot, but one of the most satisfying unintentional side-effects of the project has been the chance to correct facts and figures, and remove inappropriate content from entries related to India and its politics on Wikipedia.
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Blog Entry Re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under CC-BY-SA 3.0
by Nitika Tandon — published Oct 01, 2013 — last modified Nov 04, 2013 12:14 PM — filed under: , , , ,
Goa University re-released Konkani Vishwakosh under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. To celebrate and further the movement of open knowledge and open access Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) organised an event on September 26, 2013 at 10 a.m., at the Goa University Conference Hall.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Feedback on the Framework on OSS Adoption in E-Governance Systems
by Nehaa Chaudhari — published Oct 28, 2013 — filed under: , ,
CIS gave its feedback to the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) on the Framework on Open Source Software Adoption in E-Governance Systems on October 26, 2013.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry Konkani Vishwakosh Under CC-BY-SA
by Nitika Tandon — published Nov 13, 2013 — last modified Nov 30, 2013 10:47 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Upon CIS-A2K's explicit request, Goa University has approved the re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under the Creative Commons License (CC-BY-SA 3.0) to make it freely available to public and giving them the right to share, use and even build upon the work that has already been done. This is a huge step to help preserve Konkani language and culture in digital era and will also feed into building of Konkani Wikipedia.
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Blog Entry Train the Trainer Program
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 18, 2013 — filed under: , , , , ,
Wikipedians, about 20 of them, from 10 different cities, speaking 8 different languages, joined together for the first ever four days "Train the Trainer Program" organised by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team in Bangalore from October 3 to 6, 2013.
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Blog Entry Train The Trainer Programme for Wikipedians
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 18, 2013 — filed under: , , ,
Twenty Wikimedians from 10 cities speaking 8 languages attended the 4-day Train-The-Trainer (TTT) programme conducted last month by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K) at Bangalore. The programme aimed to improve and enhance Wikipedians' skills for outreach and community-building activities.
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