Centre for Internet & Society

FOSS: Smart Choice for Developing Countries

by Prasad Krishna

This workshop is being organised by TechNation and Open Source Alliance of Central Asia on October 23. Sunil Abraham is participating as a panelist and will speak on FOSS and IT Growth Policies in South Asia.

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Making Wikipedia Better

by Pooja Saxena and Nirbheek Chauhan

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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GFM 2013

by Prasad Krishna

Nishant Shah participated in a panel discussion with Wendy Chun, Tom Levine and Geert Lovink , around 'The End of Bibliographies: New Media and Research'. Nishant also participated as a panelist in a panel discussion on 'Open Up: Pragmatism and Politics of Open Access'. The programme was held at the University of Luneberg in Germany from October 3 to 5, 2013.

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Mangalore: Konkani writers resolve to form all-India forum at JKS conference

by Prasad Krishna

Jagotik Konknni Songhotton (JKS) organized an All-India Konkani Writers’ Conference on Sunday, September 29 at Kalaangann.

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Re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under CC-BY-SA 3.0

by Nitika Tandon

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.

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Odisha: Wikipedia workshop at IIMC, Dhenkanal

by Prasad Krishna

Wikipedia workshop was held at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal, on Monday. The workshop was inaugurated by Head of IIMC, Dhenkanal, Dr Mrinal Chatterjee.

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Goa University Partners CIS India To Build Konkani Wikipedia

by Prasad Krishna

The Goa university has entered into a three year memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) for building the Konkani Wikipedia, reports navhindtimes.

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September 2013 Bulletin

by Prasad Krishna

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

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Goa University to make available online Konkani Wikipedia, within 6 months

by Prasad Krishna

Thick heaps of the four volumes of Konkani language ‘vishwakosh’ or encyclopedia , till now available only in hard copy, will now attain a modern access.

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The Indian Council of Agricultural Research Adopts an Open Access Policy

by Nehaa Chaudhari

In this blogpost, Nehaa Chaudhari discusses the newly adopted Open Access Policy of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

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