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Asian Athletics Championships 2017 Edit-a-thon
- July 31, 2017
Odia Wikipedians, in conjunction with Indian Athletics Federation and Sports and Youth Services collaborated to document the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships. Hundreds of photos were uploaded and new Wikipedia content added to inform the event’s fans.
Read more →Thematic Edit-a-thon at J.P.Naik Centre for Education & Development, Pune
- June 07, 2017
A Marathi Wikipedia workshop was held at the J.P. Naik Centre for Education and Development in Pune recently.
Read more →SoI’s Open Series Maps Fails to Implement Public Sharing of Govt Data
- May 04, 2017
Although it has made the topographic maps or the Open Series Maps available to general public, Survey of India’s (SoI) Nakshe portal will have to go through a variety of litmus test, as the initiative fails to implement the mandates of public sharing of government data using open standards and open license as put forward by the NMP 2005 and NDSAP 2012, says Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Research Director, The Centre for Internet and Society. This interview was published by Geospatial World on May 02, 2017.
Read more →Comments on the Statistical Disclosure Control Report
- May 02, 2017
This submission presents comments by the Centre for Internet and Society, India (“CIS”) on the Statistical Disclosure Control Report published on March 30th by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
Read more →Marathi Wikipedia Symposium at Gokhale Institute Of Politics & Economics
- June 07, 2017
A strategic symposium on Marathi Wikipedia and its sister projects was conducted on 29 April, 2017
Read more →Chemistry research in India 'still not in big league'
- April 28, 2017
Despite an increase in research output and international collaboration, chemistry research, "the central science", in India is "still not in the big league", an analysis has revealed.
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