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Konkani Wikipedia in the making
- September 30, 2013
Process of uploading the four volumes of Konkani encyclopaedia will be completed in six months’ time.
Read more →Access to Knowledge Bulletin — September 2013
- December 09, 2013
The Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) newsletter for the month of September 2013:
Read more →For the love of Konkani: Preserving Goa's official language
- September 30, 2013
With many local dialects on the brink of extinction, Joanna Lobo meets the language conservationists who have taken it upon themselves to preserve Goa's official language.
Read more →Goa University announces plan to upload Konkani encyclopedia on Wikipedia
- October 03, 2013
The Goa University, on Thursday, re-launched the four volumes of Konkani Vishwakosh (Konkani encyclopedia), and announced its ambitious plan to upload the same on Wikipedia – a free encyclopedia built collaboratively using Wiki software – so as to build the Konkani Wikipedia.
Read more →Konkani Wikipedia from Goa University in 6 months
- September 27, 2013
Piles of the thick four volumes of Konkani vishwakosh or encyclopedia waiting to be picked up by users at the Goa University (GU) will now attain a modern avatar.
Read more →Open Access: An Opportunity for Scientists around the Globe
- September 26, 2013
Researchers face two problems related to information access: making their own research more visible to researchers elsewhere and making worldwide research readily available to them. Open access (OA) can solve both of them.
Read more →CIS Signs MoU with Goa University
- September 25, 2013
The Access to Knowledge (A2K) team from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has signed a MOU with the Goa University.
Read more →Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project
- October 01, 2013
The Centre for Internet and Society in collaboration with the University of Goa invite you to a two-month project on digitization of Konkani Vishwakosh. Please send in your applications by October 5, 2013.
Read more →Goa university re-releasing Konkani encyclopaedia on Sept 26
- September 25, 2013
The Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet and Societie's Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) is re-releasing its four volume 3632 page Konkani Vishwakosh (encyclopaedia).
Read more →Konkani Vishwakosh relaunch tomorrow
- September 25, 2013
The Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet and Societies Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) will relaunch its four-volume 3,632-page Konkani Vishwakosh (encyclopaedia) under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. to support the movement of open knowledge and open access on Thursday at 10 a.m. at a function at the conference hall of its administrative building at Taleigao plateau.
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