Centre for Internet & Society

Darshana Mandrekar speaks on Konkani Wikipedia

by Nitika Tandon

The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Goa University is working to build Konkani Wikipedia. As part of this program it organised the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Program recently.

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Darshan Kandolkar on Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Process

by Nitika Tandon

The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Goa University is working to build Konkani Wikipedia. As part of this program it organised the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Program recently.

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Varsha Kavlekar on Konkani Wikipedia Incubator

by Nitika Tandon

The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Goa University is working to build Konkani Wikipedia. As part of this program it organised the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Program recently.

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A Feature on Telugu Wikipedia

by Prasad Krishna

Namaste Telangana newspaper has done a Sunday magazine feature on Telugu Wikipedia on the occasion of the 10th anniversary.

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Konkani Vishwakosh Encyclopedia released under Free License

by Nitika Tandon

Upon Centre for Internet & Society’s Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K)‘s explicit request, Goa University has approved the re-release of Vishwakosh under Creative Commons License (CC-BY-SA 3.0) to make it freely available to public, 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 the digital era.

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First ever Train-the-Trainer Program in India

by Nitika Tandon

Access to Knowledge Programme at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) organized the first ever Train the Trainer Program in India. 20 Wikimedians from 8 different language communities and 10 different cities across India attended CIS-A2K’s Train the Trainer (TTT).

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You Too Can Write on Wikipedia! — Training workshop

by Prasad Krishna

The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team in collaboration with Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation and National Institute of Tourims and Hospitality Management is organizing a two-days training workshop (December 5-6, 2013) in Gachibowli, Hyderabad.

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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — November 2013

by Prasad Krishna

The Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) newsletter for the month of November 2013:

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How Can We Make Open Education Truly Open?

by Nishant Shah

I have spent the last month being unpopular. I have been in conversation with many ‘Open Everything’ activists and practitioners. At each instance, we got stuck because I insisted that we begin by defining what ‘Open’ means in the easy abuse that it is subject to.

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November 2013 Bulletin

by Prasad Krishna

Our newsletter for the month of November 2013 can be accessed below.

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