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Report of Wiki Workshop in Mangalore

by Prasad Krishna last modified Apr 16, 2013 06:14 AM

A wikipedia workshop was organized in Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, Mangalore on April 9, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the workshop. Prajavani's Mangalore edition published a report about the felicitation to K.P. Rao and about the wikipedia workshop.

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Need to develop vernacular languages stressed

by Prasad Krishna last modified Apr 15, 2013 08:47 AM

University of Hyderabad (UoH) Vice-Chancellor Prof. Ramakrishna Rama Swamy said on Wednesday that everyone has a duty to contribute to the development of vernacular languages.

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The Fifth Elephant 2013

by Prasad Krishna last modified Apr 08, 2013 04:11 AM

HasGeek is organizing the Fifth Elephant from July 11 to 13, 2013 at the NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore. Workshops on open source technologies and enterprise solutions will be held on July 11, 2013. You can participate in workshops only, conference only or both.

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2nd Odia Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

by Prasad Krishna last modified Apr 01, 2013 10:17 AM

The event is being organized today, April 1, 2013 online by the Odia Wikipedia Community, from 10.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting this event.

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Kannada Wikipedia Workshop, Mysore — Coverage in Prajavani

by Prasad Krishna last modified Mar 25, 2013 08:49 AM

A Kannada Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet and Society in Mysore on March 24, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. Prajavani has published a report of the event on March 25, 2013.

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Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013

by Prasad Krishna last modified Mar 13, 2013 05:09 AM

The Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013 was held on March 8, 2013 at Servelots Infotech, Jayanagar in Bangalore. It was organized by Wikimedia India. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. The news was covered by Kannada Prabha on March 9, 2013.

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Wikipedia at Avenir

by Prasad Krishna last modified Mar 11, 2013 04:08 AM

A 4 hours Wikipedia event at Avenir, 2013 is being held at Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal on 11th March 2013. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting this event.

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Foreign Funding of NGOs

Foreign Funding of NGOs

by Prasad Krishna last modified Mar 04, 2013 11:52 PM

Should FDI in India’s thinktank sector worry us? It is a debate long overdue.

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Open DataCamp - 2013

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 28, 2013 11:08 AM

A two day unconference for people working with data from various sectors to come together and share their projects and idea is being organized by Open Data Camp on March 2 and 3, 2013 at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (inside Christ University Campus), Dairy Circle in Bangalore.

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Wiki Meet-up in Bangalore: Talk by Vishnu Vardhan

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 11, 2013 06:22 AM

Vishnu Vardhan, Director of Access to Knowledge team at CIS has been invited by the Bangalore SIG Chair. Vishnu will speak on the Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) project. The talk is scheduled for February 25, 2013 at 2.00 p.m. in Bangalore.

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Sanskrit Wikiquote — Now Available!

by Prasad Krishna last modified Mar 01, 2013 05:07 AM

The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is happy to celebrate the availability of Sanskrit wikiquote.

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Odia Wikipedia's 9th Anniversary and Workshop on Application of Odia in Media

by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 31, 2013 03:10 AM

The Centre for Internet & Society in collaboration with Odia-Wikipedia and Academy for Media Learning organized a workshop on January 29, 2013. This was covered in Sambad on January 30, 2013.

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First Odia Wikipedia Education Program concludes at IIMC, Dhenkanal

First Odia Wikipedia Education Program concludes at IIMC, Dhenkanal

by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 29, 2013 06:42 AM

The first Odia Wikipedia Education program ended yesterday at Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Dhenkanal with distribution of certificates to the participants.

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Bangalore hackers write code as tribute to Aaron Swartz

Bangalore hackers write code as tribute to Aaron Swartz

by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 25, 2013 11:41 AM

A small crowd gathered here on Saturday afternoon in the basement of the Centre for Internet and Society to participate in the Aaron Swartz Memorial Hacknight, organised by HasGeek.

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Leslie Chan Lectures in Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore

by Prasad Krishna last modified Dec 12, 2012 06:26 AM

Prof. Leslie Chan from the University of Toronto, Canada is giving a series of lectures in Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore from December 17, 2012 to December 19, 2012.

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A Report of Odia Wikipedia Workshop at IIT, Kharagpur

by Prasad Krishna last modified Dec 05, 2012 05:20 AM

The Samaja, Odia daily, Kolkata edition, on December 3, 2012, published an article about the Odia Wikipedia Workshop organized in IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal.

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વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી માં પણ છે

by Prasad Krishna last modified Dec 07, 2012 10:36 AM

We've recently been featured in the Gujarati magazine on technology: Cybersafar. The below article was written by Harsh Kothari.

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OdishaDiary conferred prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to Odia Wikipedia team

OdishaDiary conferred prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to Odia Wikipedia team

by Prasad Krishna last modified Dec 05, 2012 04:55 AM

OdishaDiary (Orissadiary.com) conferred the prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to the team of contributors of Odia Wikipedia.

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A Report of the Odia Wikipedia Workshop held in KMBB College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar

by Prasad Krishna last modified Dec 07, 2012 10:37 PM

(By Debapriya Priyadashi Chakra) Sambad, Odisha's most widely read and largest circulated daily, on November 19, 2012, published an article about the Odia Wikipedia workshop organized in KMBB College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

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Science Gallery Workshop @ Srishti

by Prasad Krishna last modified Dec 04, 2012 03:42 PM

Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology is organizing a workshop to discuss the exciting potential of envisaging a Science Gallery in Bangalore as a part of the Global Science Gallery Network. Sunil Abraham is participating in this workshop.

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