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FOSS: Smart Choice for Developing Countries
- October 21, 2013
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.
Read more →Making Wikipedia Better
- October 14, 2013
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.
Read more →GFM 2013
- October 06, 2013
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.
Read more →Mangalore: Konkani writers resolve to form all-India forum at JKS conference
- October 14, 2013
Jagotik Konknni Songhotton (JKS) organized an All-India Konkani Writers’ Conference on Sunday, September 29 at Kalaangann.
Read more →Re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under CC-BY-SA 3.0
- October 22, 2013
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.
Read more →Odisha: Wikipedia workshop at IIMC, Dhenkanal
- October 03, 2013
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.
Read more →Goa University Partners CIS India To Build Konkani Wikipedia
- October 03, 2013
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.
Read more →September 2013 Bulletin
- October 24, 2013
Our newsletter for the month of September 2013 can be accessed below.
Read more →Goa University to make available online Konkani Wikipedia, within 6 months
- October 03, 2013
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.
Read more →The Indian Council of Agricultural Research Adopts an Open Access Policy
- September 30, 2013
In this blogpost, Nehaa Chaudhari discusses the newly adopted Open Access Policy of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
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