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Open Street Map "Mapping Workshop"
- June 17, 2015
I conducted a workshop titled "OpenStreetMap Mapping Workshop" on Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at Phandeeyar. The workshop was attended by 20 enthusiasts. This involved organisations that work on resource issues, mostly on land grabbing, a start-up company that is planning to offer location-based local news feeds, a representative of MIDO, and an organisation that sells children’s books.
Read more →Odia Wikipedia Set to Celebrate 13 Years of Volunteer Contributions
- June 14, 2015
Odia Wikipedia, one of the first of several Indian language Wikipedia projects, is ready to celebrate 13 glorious years of free knowledge contribution on June 3.
Read more →What is the Open Data Movement & Why Does it Matter?
- June 18, 2015
I gave a talk at this event organized by Phandeeyar on May 13, 2015 in Yangon. About 25 delegates attended the event.
Read more →Wikipedia Campus at Oxford College
- May 27, 2015
CIS-A2K collaborated with the Oxford College of Engineering, Bommanahalli, Bangalore on April 24, 2015 for introducing Wikimedia projects at their institution. Radhakrishna, a senior Wikimedian from Bangalore provided the crucial introduction and worked closely with the A2K team in conducting all the activities.
Read more →Now you can search Google in Kannada, in your handwriting
- May 09, 2015
All you need to do is to make changes in settings on your phone or tablet.
Read more →ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଡିଜିଟାଲ ଅସୁବିଧା
- May 22, 2015
This paper was presented at the 2nd National Language Seminar by CIS-A2K Pogramme Officer Subhashish Panigrahi. In the paper, Panigrahi discusses about the hindrances of mass use of Odia language on the internet and how that is impacting in overall contribution of people in the language.
Read more →Patterns of Gender Aggression and Harassment in Open Tech and Open Culture Communities Online
- June 01, 2015
Report on the talk delivered by me at Adacamp held in Montreal, Canada on April 13-14, 2015.
Read more →NASA International Open Data Challenge 2015
- April 27, 2015
As part of the initial NASA Open Government 2.0 plan, the NASA International Open Data challenge brings together the FOSS community, citizen scientists, open data practitioners , open hardware enthusiasts and students for collaborative problem solving with the goal of producing relevant open-source solutions to address global needs applicable to both life on Earth and life in Space.
Read more →Odia waits for Google Translate debut - Nine Indian languages available
- May 08, 2015
Odia getting the "classical" status last year was certainly a proud moment for the people of the state, but, it is yet to feature among the languages available in Google's popular translation service.
Read more →2nd National Language Conference, Bhubaneswar
- April 10, 2015
Institute of Odia Studies and Research organised 2nd National Language Conference beginning on Monday, March 30, 2015 and ending on April 2, 2015 at the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar. This conference was organised in collaboration with the Department of Tourism and Culture. I presented a paper in Odia language in this conference as part of a panel discussion related to Odia language computing.
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