Centre for Internet & Society

Wikipedia Mangalore Workshop (Coverage in Prajavani)

by Prasad Krishna

Dr. U.B.Pavanaja gave a presentation on Wikipedia with a special focus on students and women at Roshini Nilaya, Mangalore on February 26, 2014. An event report was published in Prajavani the following day.

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Wiki Women's Workshop

by Prasad Krishna

As part of the commemoration of the International Women's Day, International Centre Goa (ICG) in association with the Centre for Internet & Society’s Access to Knowledge team is organising a Wiki Women’s Workshop on Sunday, March 9, 2014 from 3.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. at ICG – Dona Paula.

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First Urdu Wikipedia Workshop at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad

by Syed Muzammiluddin

During the second week of February, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore received a call from Dr Faheemuddin, Assistant Professor, Department of Translation Studies, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad requesting an Urdu Wikipedia Workshop in University. We were informed of special interest of Dr Zafaruddin , Head, Department of Translation studies in holding the event as any effort aimed at expanding the Urdu Wikipedia will benefit the Urdu language community across the world.

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Kannada Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Vijayavani)

by Prasad Krishna

Vijayavani covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop held in Sagara.

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February 2014 Bulletin

by Prasad Krishna

The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) welcomes you to the second issue of its newsletter (February) for the year 2014:

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Future of Democracy

by Prasad Krishna

The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and Tactical Tech Collective invite you to a talk by Smari McCarthy at CIS office in Bangalore on Monday, March 3, 2014 at 6.30 p.m.

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Tewiki 10th Anniversary

by Rahmanuddin Shaikh

Tewiki 10th anniversary celebration 2014, started on February 15 in Vijayawada at Kakaraparti Bhavanarayana College. It was co-organized by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team and the Telugu Wikipedia community. Ch.Arjuna Rao expressed his happiness on Telugu Wikipedias completion of 10 years and 55000 articles in Telugu on the inauguration of decade celebrations.

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୧୦ ବର୍ଷରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ୱିକିପିଡିଆ

by Prasad Krishna

This is a feature about Odia Wikipedia's 10th anniversary and the story of a dead volunteer community reviving after 8 years. This has been published in Rabibara Sambad (Sunday supplement of Odia newspaper The Sambad) on February 9, 2014.

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Father-son duo promote Punjabi online

by Prasad Krishna

A father-son duo has been working to include more information about Punjab and Punjabi on Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia.

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Bitcoin & Open Source with Aaron Koenig

by Prasad Krishna

Aaron Koenig, director of bitfilm.org and a global Bitcoin entrepreneur will give a talk at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore on February 7 at 6.00 p.m.

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