Centre for Internet & Society

Telugu Wikipedia Winter Camp at Andhra Loyola College

by Rahmanuddin Shaikh

Students of physics, statistics and Telugu departments of Andhra Loyola College spent 5 days of their Christmas vacation of 2014 to edit and enrich Telugu Wikipedia and Wikisource. They worked on their respective subject areas and came up with more than 100 new articles on Telugu Wikipedia and about 300 pages of Veeresalingam's works were typed on Telugu Wikisource.

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Washington Meet on Open Data Principles

by Prasad Krishna

Sunil Abraham was invited to discuss the common international open data principles on February 24, 2015. The meeting took place at the World Bank office in Washington.

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Our Endangered Languages

by Subhashish Panigrahi

My op-ed (in Odia) about the endangered languages was published in the Samaja this 21st on the International Mother Language Day.

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Cultural knowledge needs to be more open

by Prasad Krishna

Subhashish Panigrahi is an educator and open source activist based in Bangalore, India. He is currently working at the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge program where he builds partnership with universities, language researchers, and GLAM organizations.

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Online Free Content in Telugu Wikipedia

by Prasad Krishna

Wikimedians gathered at Tirupati for a strategic meet. This was covered by the regional newspaper Andhra Jyothy

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More online free content in Telugu Wikipedia soon

by Prasad Krishna

Wikimedians gather at Tirupati for a strategy meet.

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[OpenGLAM] Nominate an OpenGLAM project today for the 2015 Muse Awards

by Prasad Krishna

It's that time of the year again to nominate projects for the Muse Awards! This is like the Oscar of GLAM awards in the USA and welcomes international submissions.

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A Wikipedia Presentation at BITS, Goa

by Radhakrishna Arvapally

Quark is one of India's largest science, technology and management festivals, held every February at BITS Pilani - K.K. Birla Goa Campus. This year in 2015, the event was held from February 6 to 8, 2015. This blog post captures the key moments. About 12 delegates attended the event.

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An International Conclave of Odia Language

by Prasad Krishna

Subhashish Panigrahi is participating in this event.

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Regional Open Data Agenda-Setting Workshop 2015

by Prasad Krishna

Open Data Lab Jakarta Web Foundation hosted this workshop from February 4 to 6, 2015. Sunil Abraham was a speaker.

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