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July 2016 Newsletter
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<b>Welcome to the July 2016 newsletter of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS). </b>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">For us at CIS, July was filled with a a wonderful diversity of activities, opportunities, windows, and future gazing. We made a crucial intervention by bringing attention to the misrepresentation of India's position at the UNHRC meeting by global media, and continued our contribution to the drafting of the open data license by Government of India.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We made a submission to the Ministry of Home Affairs to reject the Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, and also appealed to the MPs to re-examine the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). We contributed to the making of an open source typeface and input tools for the Santhali language. We were studying developmental initiatives driven by big data in three parts of India (more on that in the August newsletter), mapping the emerging global governance frameworks for big data in development, and planning our future steps in this field. We initiated a study of digital transitions in Indian newspapers with support from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at University of Oxford, and also produced a series of analysis of industrial policy engagements by NASSCOM and iSPIRT.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We also kept pushing digital and new media research in India through our annual call for essays (abstracts have been accepted), and a brilliant talk on game studies and storytelling by Dr. Souvik Mukherjee. We were busy, and happily so.</p>
<p><em>- Sumandro Chattapadhyay</em></p>
<p>Previous issues of the newsletters can be <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters">accessed here</a>.</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">CIS sent a <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/letter-to-mps-on-concerns-on-regional-comprehensive-economic-partnership">letter to Members of Parliament</a> to appeal to re-examine the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, a mega-regional trade agreement currently under negotiation.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Japreet Grewal and Pranesh Prakash in an article published by FactorDaily argued that <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/factordaily-pranesh-prakash-and-japreet-grewal-july-13-2016-no-india-did-not-oppose-un-move-to-make-internet-access-a-human-right">India did not oppose the United Nations move to make Internet access a human right</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Submitted comments on the "<a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/submitted-comments-on-the-government-open-data-use-license-india">Government Open Data Use License - India</a>". CIS listed out its comments and recommendations on name of the licence, changing the language on permissible use of data, adding section on the scope of applicability of the licence, etc. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">CIS published the <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/the-report-of-the-group-of-experts-on-developments-in-the-field-of-information-and-telecommunications-in-the-context-of-international-security-and-implications-for-india">Report of the Group of Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security and Implications for India</a>. The report developed by governmental experts from 20 States addresses existing and emerging threats from uses of ICTs, by States and non-State actors alike.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">CIS is collaborating with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at University of Oxford to study various aspects of digital transition in Indian news media. <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/digital-transition-in-newspapers-in-india-pilot-study">Zeenab Aneez is leading the pilot study</a> exploring digital transition in three newspapers across English, Hindi, and Malayalam markets.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Over a series of three blog posts, Pavishka Mittal documented engagements by <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/policy-shaping-in-the-indian-it-industry-recommendations-by-nasscom-2006-2012">NASSCOM</a> and <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/policy-shaping-in-the-indian-it-industry-recommendations-by-nasscom-and-ispirt-2013-2016">iSPIRT</a> in industrial policy making in the Indian IT sector during 2006-2016, including on <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/policy-shaping-in-the-indian-it-industry-recommendations-by-nasscom-on-transfer-pricing">transfer pricing policy</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Deputy US Trade Representative Ambassador Robert Holleyman <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ustr-elaborates-the-two-dozen-digital-rules-of-club-tpp">discussed the Digital 2 Dozen document</a> with Ambassador Shyam Saran. Anubha Sinha participated in the discussions and wrote a summary.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Meera Manoj <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/big-data-governance-frameworks-for-data-revolution-for-sustainable-development">conducted an analysis of the different models of collection, management, sharing, and governance of global development data</a> that are being discussed in several international forums. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Shubhangi Heda in a <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/tpp-and-d2-implications-for-data-protection-and-digital-privacy">blog entry has explored the concerns related to data protection and digital privacy</a> under the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement signed recently between United States of America and 11 countries located around the Pacific Ocean region, across South America, Australia, and Asia.</li></ul>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;">CIS in the News</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CIS gave inputs to the following media coverage:</p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/catch-news-asad-ali-july-3-2016-fb-and-google-have-already-monopolised-indian-cyberspace">FB & Google have already monopolised Indian cyberspace</a> (Asad Ali; Catch News; July 3, 2016)</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-hindu-s-poorvaja-july-4-2016-cyberstalkers-the-new-bullies-in-town">Cyberstalkers, the new bullies in town</a> (S. Poorvaja; Hindu; July 4, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/news/indian-express-july-5-2016-trai-free-data-paper-paytm-to-hike-the-responses-from-other-companies">TRAI Free Data paper: Paytm to Hike, the responses from other companies</a> (Indian Express; July 5, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-week-anuj-srinivas-july-6-2016-india-no-haven-for-net-freedom-but-did-not-oppose-un-move-on-internet-rights">India No Haven For Net Freedom But It Did Not Oppose UN Move on Internet Rights</a> (Anuj Srinivas; The Wire; July 6, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/ciol-july-7-2016-india-may-not-be-guilty-of-opposing-un-move-to-save-internet-rights">India may not be guilty of opposing UN move to save internet rights</a> (Ciol; July 7, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/times-now-july-8-2016-flashpoint-troll-control-maneka-versus-ncw">Flashpoint #TrollControl: Maneka versus NCW</a> (Times Now Television, July 8, 2016). </li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-telegraph-july-10-2016-place-for-a-safety-net">Place for a safety net</a> (The Telegraph; July 10, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/economic-times-v-prem-shanker-july-13-2016-tamil-nadu-likely-to-hold-facebook-accountable-for-suicide-case">Tamil Nadu likely to hold Facebook accountable for suicide case</a> (V. Prem Shanker; Economic Times, July 13, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/india-today-july-13-2016-bisakha-datta-belling-the-trolls">Belling the trolls</a> (Bishakha Datta; India Today; July 13, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/hindustan-times-neelam-pandey-aloke-tikku-july-15-2016-mandatory-aadhaar-card-for-govt-scholarships-violates-sc-order">Mandatory Aadhaar card for govt scholarships violates SC order</a> (Neelam Pandey and Aloke Tikku; Hindustan Times, July 15, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/outlook-july-25-2016-arindam-mukherjee-its-that-eavesdrop-endemic">It's That Eavesdrop Endemic</a> (Arindam Mukherjee; Outlook; July 25, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/washington-post-july-27-2016-rama-lakshmi-facebook-is-censoring-some-posts-on-indian-kashmir">Facebook is censoring some posts on Indian Kashmir</a> (Rama Lakshmi; Washington Post; July 27, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/news/art-science-and-open-electromagnetic-spectrum-culture-eng">Art, Science and Open Electromagnetic Spectrum Culture</a> [ENG] (Creative Disturbance Platform; July 31, 2016).<br /><br /></li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CIS members wrote the following articles:</p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/indian-express-nishant-shah-july-3-2016-gay-pride-charade">The Gay Pride Charade</a> (Nishant Shah; Indian Express; July 3, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/how-are-indian-newspapers-adapting-to-the-rise-of-digital-media">How are Indian Newspapers Adapting to the Rise of Digital Media?</a> (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism; Sumandro Chattapadhyay; July 5, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/indian-express-nishant-shah-july-17-2016-one-pokemon-to-rule-them-all">One Pokémon to Rule Them All</a> (Nishant Shah; Indian Express; July 17, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/factordaily-pranesh-prakash-and-japreet-grewal-july-13-2016-no-india-did-not-oppose-un-move-to-make-internet-access-a-human-right">No, India did NOT oppose the United Nations move to “make internet access a human right”</a> (Pranesh Prakash and Japreet Grewal; Factordaily; July 13, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/digital-policy-portal-july-13-2016-new-approaches-to-information-privacy-revisiting-the-purpose-limitation-principle">New Approaches to Information Privacy – Revisiting the Purpose Limitation Principle</a> (Amber Sinha; Digital Policy Portal; July 13, 2016).</li></ul>
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<h4><a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility & Inclusion</a></h4>
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India has an estimated 70 million persons with disabilities who don't have access to read printed materials due to some form of physical, sensory, cognitive or other disability. As part of our endeavour to make available accessible content for persons with disabilities, we are developing a text-to-speech software in 15 languages with support from the Hans Foundation. The progress made so far in the project can be accessed <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/resources/nvda-text-to-speech-synthesizer">here</a>.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">►NVDA and eSpeak</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Monthly Report</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/july-2016-report">July 2016 Report</a> (Suman Dogra; July 31, 2016).</li></ul>
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<h4><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a></h4>
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<p>Our Access to Knowledge programme currently consists of two projects. The Pervasive Technologies project, conducted under a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), aims to conduct research on the complex interplay between low-cost pervasive technologies and intellectual property, in order to encourage the proliferation and development of such technologies as a social good. The Wikipedia project, which is under a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, is for the growth of Indic language communities and projects by designing community collaborations and partnerships that recruit and cultivate new editors and explore innovative approaches to building projects.</p>
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<p>►Copyright and Patent</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Blog Entries</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/letter-to-mps-on-concerns-on-regional-comprehensive-economic-partnership">Letter to MPs on Concerns on Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership</a> (Anubha Sinha; July 27, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ustr-elaborates-the-two-dozen-digital-rules-of-club-tpp">USTR elaborates the Two Dozen Digital Rules of Club TPP</a> (Anubha Sinha; July 29, 2016).<br /><br /></li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Participation in Events</strong></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/mapping-mobility" class="external-link">Mapping & Mobility</a> (Organized by Carnegie India; June 28, 2016). Anubha Sinha attended the event.</li></ul>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/workshop-on-declaration-on-patents-protection-regulatory-sovereignty-under-trips">Workshop on Declaration on Patents Protection: Regulatory Sovereignty under TRIPS</a> (Organized by the Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development; Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi; July 12 - 13, 2016). Sunil Abraham was a speaker.</li></ul>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/3rd-international-conference-on-management-of-intellectual-property-rights-and-strategy">3rd International Conference on Management of Intellectual Property Rights and Strategy</a> (Organized by Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, at IIT Bombay, through the MHRD IPR Chair; July 15-16, 2016). Anubha Sinha was a speaker on the 'Negotiating India's IP Policy" panel.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/india-and-regional-mega-trade-agreements">India and Regional Mega-Trade Agreements</a> (Organized by Observer Research Foundation; New Delhi; July 25, 2016). Anubha Sinha participated in a panel discussion on "India and Regional Mega-Trade Agreements" with Ambassador Robert Holleyman, Deputy US Trade Representative and Ambassador Shyam Saran, Chairman, Research and Information System for Developing Countries.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/live-webinar-on-regional-comprehensive-economic-partnership">Live Webinar on Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership</a> (Organized by RCEP; New Delhi; July 27, 2016).</li></ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">►Wikipedia</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As part of the <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">project grant from the Wikimedia Foundation</a> we have reached out to more than 3500 people across India by organizing more than 100 outreach events and catalysed the release of encyclopaedic and other content under the Creative Commons (CC-BY-3.0) license in four Indian languages (21 books in Telugu, 13 in Odia, 4 volumes of encyclopaedia in Konkani and 6 volumes in Kannada, and 1 book on Odia language history in English).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Blog Entry</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ca4cb0cacca4cbf-caecbeca1cb2cc1-ca4cb0cacca4cbfc97c82ca1cbec97-cis-a2k-ttt-2016">ತರಬೇತಿ ಮಾಡಲು ತರಬೇತಿಗೊಂಡಾಗ.... CIS-A2K TTT 2016</a> (Dhanalakshmi; July 3, 2016).</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Participation in Event</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/architectures-of-knowledge">Architectures of Knowledge</a> (Organized by Columbia's Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities; Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; July 4, 2016). Rohini Lakshané was a speaker.</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Media Coverage</p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/my-city-links-july-4-2016-digital-oxygen-for-odia-language">The Digital Oxygen for Odia Language</a> (My City Links; July 4, 2016).</li></ul>
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<h4><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness">Openness</a></h4>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Our work in the Openness programme focuses on open data, especially open government data, open access, open education resources, open knowledge in Indic languages, open media, and open technologies and standards - hardware and software. We approach openness as a cross-cutting principle for knowledge production and distribution, and not as a thing-in-itself.</div>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/opensource.com-subhashish-panigrahi-july-8-2016-open-source-effort-gives-indigenous-language-an-official-typeface" class="external-link">Open Source Effort gives Indigenous Language an Official Typeface</a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; Opensource.com; July 8, 2016).</li></ul>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Submission</strong></div>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/submitted-comments-on-the-government-open-data-use-license-india">Comments on the 'Government Open Data Use License - India'</a> (Anubha Sinha, Pranesh Prakash, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay; July 26, 2016).</li></ul>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Participation in Event</strong></div>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/open-data-charter-lead-stewards-in-person-meeting">Open Data Charter Lead Stewards In-Person Meeting</a> (Organized by Open Data Charter; Mexico; July 4 and 5, 2016). Sunil Abraham participated remotely.</li></ul>
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<h4><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a></h4>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">As part of its research on privacy and free speech, CIS is engaged with two different projects. The first one (under a grant from Privacy International and IDRC) is on surveillance and freedom of expression (SAFEGUARDS). The second one (under a grant from MacArthur Foundation) is on restrictions that the Indian government has placed on freedom of expression online.</p>
<p>►Privacy</p>
<p><strong>Research Paper</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/the-report-of-the-group-of-experts-on-developments-in-the-field-of-information-and-telecommunications-in-the-context-of-international-security-and-implications-for-india">Analysis of the Report of the Group of Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security and Implications for India</a> (Elonnai Hickok and Vipul Kharbanda; July 30, 2016)<br /></li></ul>
<p><strong>Blog Entries</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/tpp-and-d2-implications-for-data-protection-and-digital-privacy">Trans Pacific Partnership and Digital 2 Dozen: Implications for Data Protection and Digital Privacy</a> (Shubhangi Heda; July 12, 2016).</li></ul>
<p><strong>Event Organized</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/stand-up-for-digital-rights-1">Stand up for Digital Rights</a> (CIS, New Delhi; July 29, 2016). </li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Participation in Event</strong></p>
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<li>Privacy Law and impact of emergent technology (National Law School of India University; Bangalore; July 12, 2016). Amber Sinha taught an elective full credit course for final year undergraduate students.</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">►Big Data</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Blog Entry</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/big-data-governance-frameworks-for-data-revolution-for-sustainable-development">Big Data Governance Frameworks for 'Data Revolution for Sustainable Development'</a> (Meera Manoj; July 5, 2016).</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">►Freedom of Expression</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Blog Entries</strong></p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/perumal-murugan-and-the-law-on-obscenity">Perumal Murugan and the Law on Obscenity</a> (Japreet Grewal; July 21, 2016).</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CIS sought a series of information from ICANN on various topics. The DIDP Requests and the responses solicited were compiled and published by Asvatha Babu:</p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-9-exactly-how-involved-is-icann-in-the-netmundial-initiative">Exactly how involved is ICANN in the NETmundial Initiative? </a></li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-10-icann-does-not-know-how-much-each-rir-contributes-to-its-budget">ICANN does not know how much each RIR contributes to its Budget</a></li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-13-keeping-track-of-icann2019s-contracted-parties-registries">Keeping track of ICANN’s contracted parties: Registries</a></li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-14-keeping-track-of-icann2019s-contracted-parties-registrars">Keeping track of ICANN’s contracted parties: Registrars </a></li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-15-what-is-going-on-between-verisign-and-icann">What is going on between Verisign and ICANN?</a> </li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-16-icann-has-no-documentation-on-registrars2019-201cabuse-contacts201d">ICANN has no Documentation on Registrars’ “Abuse Contacts”</a></li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-17-how-icann-chooses-their-contractual-compliance-auditors">How ICANN Chooses their Contractual Compliance Auditors</a></li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-18-icann2019s-internal-website-will-stay-internal">ICANN’s Internal Website will Stay Internal</a> </li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-19-icann2019s-role-in-the-postponement-of-the-iana-transition">ICANN’s role in the Postponement of the IANA Transition</a></li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-20-is-presumptive-renewal-of-verisign2019s-contracts-a-good-thing">Is Presumptive Renewal of Verisign’s Contracts a Good Thing?</a></li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-21-icann2019s-relationship-with-the-rirs">ICANN’s Relationship with the RIRs</a> </li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-22-reconsideration-requests-from-parties-affected-by-icann-action">Reconsideration Requests from Parties affected by ICANN Action</a></li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-23-icann-does-not-know-how-diverse-its-comment-section-is">ICANN does not Know how Diverse its Comment Section Is</a> </li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-25-curbing-sexual-harassment-at-icann">Curbing Sexual Harassment at ICANN</a></li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-27-on-icann2019s-support-to-new-gtld-applicants">On ICANN’s support to new gTLD Applicants </a></li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-28-icann-renews-verisign2019s-rzm-contract">ICANN renews Verisign’s RZM Contract?</a></li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Participation in Events</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Safety Net (Organized by APC and Point of View; Mumbai; July 11, 2016). Rohini Lakshané was a trainer.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/meeting-on-net-neutrality-and-related-issues">Meeting on Net Neutrality and Related Issues</a> (Organized by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India; July 15, 2016; New Delhi). Sunil Abraham attended the meeting.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/digital-in-south-asia">Digital in South Asia</a> (Organized by World Economic Forum; July 19, 2016; Bangalore). Sunil Abraham attended this event.</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/roundtable-identifying-and-limiting-hate-speech-and-harassment-online">Roundtable: Identifying and Limiting Hate Speech and Harassment Online</a> (Organized by SFLC; New Delhi; July 28, 2016). Japreet Grewal attended the event.</li></ul>
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<h4><a href="http://cis-india.org/raw">Researchers at Work</a></h4>
<p><strong> -----------------------------------</strong></p>
<p>The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme is an interdisciplinary research initiative driven by an emerging need to understand the reconfigurations of social practices and structures through the Internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa. It aims to produce local and contextual accounts of interactions, negotiations, and resolutions between the Internet, and socio-material and geo-political processes:</p>
<p><strong><br />Blog Entries</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/digital-transition-in-newspapers-in-india-pilot-study">How are Indian Newspapers Adapting to the Rise of Digital Media?</a> (Sumandro Chattapadhyay; July 6, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/digital-transition-in-newspapers-in-india-pilot-study">Digital Transition in Newspapers in India: A Pilot Study</a> (Zeenab Aneez; July 19, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/policy-shaping-in-the-indian-it-industry-recommendations-by-nasscom-2006-2012">Policy Shaping in the Indian IT Industry: Recommendations by NASSCOM, 2006-2012</a> (Pavishka Mittal; July 1, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/policy-shaping-in-the-indian-it-industry-recommendations-by-nasscom-and-ispirt-2013-2016">Policy Shaping in the Indian IT Industry: Comparative Analysis of Recommendations by NASSCOM and iSPIRT, 2013-2016</a> (Pavishka Mittal; July 4, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/policy-shaping-in-the-indian-it-industry-recommendations-by-nasscom-on-transfer-pricing">Policy Shaping in the Indian IT Industry: Recommendations by NASSCOM on Transfer Pricing, 2014-2016</a> (Pavishka Mittal; July 27, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/rbi-regulation-digital-financial-services-in-india-2012-2016">RBI and Regulation of Digital Financial Services in India, 2012-2016</a> (Shivalik Chandan; July 11, 2016).</li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/studying-internet-in-india-2016-selected-abstracts">Studying Internet in India (2016): Selected Abstracts</a> (Sumandro Chattapadhyay; July 5, 2016).</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Participated in Event</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/data-for-governance-governance-of-data-and-data-anxieties">The Data Explosion – How the Internet of Things will Affect Media Freedom and Communication Systems?</a> (Sumandro Chattapadhyay was a panelist at this session organised by the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) at the Deutsche Welle's Global Media Forum 2016, held in Bonn, Germany; June 13-15, 2016.</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Event Organized</strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/raw/talk-on-game-studies-souvik-mukherjee-july-28-6-pm">Game Studies: A Talk by Dr. Souvik Mukherjee</a> (CIS, Bangalore, July 28, 2016). Dr. Souvik Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, Presidency University, Calcutta gave a talk on game studies, digital media, internet cultures and traditional humanities. </li></ul>
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<h4><a href="http://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a></h4>
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<p>The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with diverse abilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The academic research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfigurations of social and cultural processes and structures as mediated through the internet and digital media technologies.</p>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><em>CIS is grateful to its primary donor the Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its core funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various projects</em>.</div>
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No publisherpraskrishnaNewsletter2016-09-17T14:13:32ZPageFebruary 2014 Bulletin
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/february-2014-bulletin
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) welcomes you to the second issue of its newsletter (February) for the year 2014: </b>
<p>-------------------------------<br />Highlights<br />-------------------------------</p>
<ul>
<li>We published revised chapters for the states of Mizoram, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana, as part of our National Resource Kit project.</li>
<li>In the concluding blog post of a three-part study Ananth Padmanabhan looks at the Indian law in the Copyright Act and the Information Technology Act, and concludes that both those laws restrain courts and private companies from ordering an ISP to block a website for copyright infringement.</li>
<li>Telugu Wikipedia celebrated its 10<sup>th</sup> anniversary. An event was co-organized in Vijaywada to celebrate the same.</li>
<li>The second Institute on Internet and Society was held in Pune from February 11 to 17. The proceedings from the workshop are captured in a blog post. </li>
<li>CIS announced an Open Call for Comments for the latest draft of the Privacy Bill, 2013 prepared by Bhairav Acharya.</li>
<li>Forbes India published its “30 Under 30 List”. Pranesh Prakash is featured in the list.</li>
<li>As part of the Making Change Project, Denisse Albornoz wrote a blog post that compares the production behind a performance with the process of storytelling.</li>
<li>Beli gives an introduction to spectrum sharing. The post looks at GSM and CDMA, and touches upon LTE, and how they might share spectrum.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">-----------------------------------------------<a href="https://cis-india.org/jobs"><br />Jobs<br /></a>-----------------------------------------------<br />CIS is seeking applications for the post of Program Officer (Access to Knowledge): <a href="http://bit.ly/1fnydB0">http://bit.ly/1fnydB0</a>. There are two vacancies for this post and it is full-time based in Delhi. To apply, please send your resume to Sunil Abraham (<a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a>), Nirmita Narasimhan (<a href="mailto:nirmita@cis-india.org">nirmita@cis-india.org</a>) and Pranesh Prakash (<a href="mailto:pranesh@cis-india.org">pranesh@cis-india.org</a>) with three writing samples of which at least one demonstrates your analytic skills, and one that shows your ability to simplify complex policy issues.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">----------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility and Inclusion<br /></a>----------------------------------------------<br />As part of our project (under a grant from the Hans Foundation) on creating a national resource kit of state-wise laws, policies and programmes on issues relating to persons with disabilities in India, we bring you draft chapters for the states of Mizoram, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. With this we have completed compilation of draft chapters for 35 states.</p>
<p><i>Based upon discussion with the office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities (CCPD) the following chapters were revised</i>:</p>
<p>► National Resource Kit Chapter</p>
<ul>
<li>The Mizoram Chapter (by CLPR, February 5, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1eUSvxW">http://bit.ly/1eUSvxW</a> </li>
<li>The Dadra & Nagar Haveli Chapter (by CLPR, February 6, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1mv3YhJ">http://bit.ly/1mv3YhJ</a> </li>
<li>The Haryana Chapter (by Anandhi Viswanathan, February 10, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1dVOiKI">http://bit.ly/1dVOiKI</a> </li>
<li>The Himachal Pradesh Chapter (by Anandhi Viswanathan, February 12, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1jSk03x">http://bit.ly/1jSk03x</a> </li>
</ul>
<p>► Other</p>
<p># Participation in Events</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">National Consultation on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Development Process (organized by CBM India in collaboration with United Nations Solution Exchange for Gender Community, WHO Regional office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, February 12, 2014). Anandhi Viswanathan participated in a panel discussion. She made a presentation on the National Resource Kit project: <a href="http://bit.ly/OlkHVq">http://bit.ly/OlkHVq</a>. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Zero Project Conference on Accessibility: Innovative Policies and Practices for Persons with Disabilities (organized by Essl Foundation, the World Future Council and the European Foundation Centre, United Nations Office, Vienna, February 27 and 28, 2014). Pranesh Prakash spoke on Affordable Text-to-Speech Software from India: <a href="http://bit.ly/1czo32s">http://bit.ly/1czo32s</a>. Nominations on e-speak were recognised as examples of innovative practices and policies from India. Pranesh Prakash was also a speaker on Copyright Exception for Accessible Formats: <a href="http://bit.ly/1l8HRth">http://bit.ly/1l8HRth</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">-----------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------<br />The Access to Knowledge programme addresses the harms caused to consumers and human rights, and critically examines Open Government Data, Open Access to Scholarly Literature, and Open Access to Law, Open Content, Open Standards, and Free/Libre/Open Source Software.</p>
<p># Analyses</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Can Judges Order ISPs to Block Websites for Copyright Infringement? (Part 2) (by Ananth Padmanabhan, February 5, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1cddoKm">http://bit.ly/1cddoKm</a>. Analyses the law laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court on secondary and contributory copyright infringement.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Can Judges Order ISPs to Block Websites for Copyright Infringement? (Part 3) (by Ananth Padmanabhan, February 5, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1g35mDg">http://bit.ly/1g35mDg</a>. Analyses the Indian law in the Copyright Act and the Information Technology Act. </li>
</ul>
<p># Participation in Events</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">2nd International Conference on Managing Intellectual Property Rights and Strategy (MIPS 2014) (organized by Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay with support from the Ministry of Human Resources Development IPR Chair Project, Government of India): <a href="http://bit.ly/PsPEbq">http://bit.ly/PsPEbq</a>. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Consultation on Institutional Arrangements for IP management under MHRD (organized by the Planning Commission and Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi, February 21, 2014). Nehaa Chaudhari participated in this consultation: <a href="http://bit.ly/1fTCoar">http://bit.ly/1fTCoar</a>. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">National Conference on Use of Technology in Higher Education (organized by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development and Planning Commission in partnership with Microsoft Research and British Council, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, February 25, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/P6u78i">http://bit.ly/P6u78i</a>. Nehaa Chaudhari participated in the event as a panelist in the session on "Future of Content Creation". </li>
</ul>
<p align="left"># Media Coverage</p>
<ul>
<li>Pranesh Prakash: Influencing India's IP Laws (by Samar Srivastava, Forbes India, February 15, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1kBzLMq">http://bit.ly/1kBzLMq</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The following has been done under grant from the Wikimedia Foundation (<a href="http://bit.ly/SPqFOl">http://bit.ly/SPqFOl</a>). As part this project (<a href="http://bit.ly/X80ELd">http://bit.ly/X80ELd</a>), we organised 4 workshops in the month of January, published an article in DNA, and signed a memorandum of understanding with KIIT University and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences to further the development of Odia Wikipedia:</p>
<p>►Wikipedia</p>
<p># Articles / Blog Entries</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Odia Language's Presence in Digital Media and Wikipedia's Role (by Subhashish Panigrahi, The Samaja, March 2, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1ieF3sC">http://bit.ly/1ieF3sC</a>. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Indian Wikimedia community coordinates Women’s History Month (by Netha Hussain and Jeph Paul, Wikimedia Foundation, March 6, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1cyRfqf">http://bit.ly/1cyRfqf</a>,</li>
</ul>
<p># Events Co-organized</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Cinemathon2014 Bangalore (organized by Pad.ma and CIS-A2K, CIS, Bangalore, February 8-9, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/MRRkZz">http://bit.ly/MRRkZz</a>. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Tewiki 10th Anniversary (organized by CIS-A2K and Telugu Wikipedia community, February 15, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1iI2Pxs">http://bit.ly/1iI2Pxs</a>. T. Vishnu Vardhan and Rahmanuddin Shaikh were speakers at the event.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Cinemathon2014 Mumbai (organized by Pad.ma and CIS-A2K, CAMP Studio, Mumbai, February 15-16, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/P5YGL8">http://bit.ly/P5YGL8</a>. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia Mangalore Workshop (organized by Roshini Nilaya and CIS-A2K, Mangalore, February 26, 2014). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja gave a presentation on Wikipedia with a special focus on students and women.</li>
</ul>
<p>CIS gave its inputs to the following media coverage:</p>
<p># Media Coverage</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Father-son duo promote Punjabi online (by Jatinder Preet, Sunday Guardian, February 1, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1l87b2h">http://bit.ly/1l87b2h</a>. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">୧୦ ବର୍ଷରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ୱିକିପିଡିଆ (Rabibara Sambad (Sunday supplement of Odia newspaper The Sambad), February 9, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1igMynn">http://bit.ly/1igMynn</a>. This is a feature about Odia Wikipedia's 10th anniversary and the story of a dead volunteer community reviving after 8 years.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia Mangalore Workshop (Prajavani, February 27, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1gVMG6f">http://bit.ly/1gVMG6f</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p># Participation in Event</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The Dynamics of Education to Employment Journey: Opportunities and Challenges (organized by KIIT School of Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, February 21-22, 2014). T. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk: <a href="http://bit.ly/1ePwqHc">http://bit.ly/1ePwqHc</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p>Event Organized</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Wiki Women's Workshop (ICG – Dona Paula, Goa, March 9, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/MRRJLy">http://bit.ly/MRRJLy</a>. The event is being organized as part of the commemoration of the International Women's Day. </li>
</ul>
<p>Openness</p>
<p># Event Organised</p>
<ul>
<li>Bitcoin & Open Source with Aaron Koenig (CIS, Bangalore, February 7, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1fbN6mP">http://bit.ly/1fbN6mP</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">-----------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a><br />-----------------------------------------------<br />CIS is doing a project (under a grant from Privacy International and International Development Research Centre (IDRC)) on conducting research on surveillance and freedom of expression (SAFEGUARDS). So far we have organised seven privacy round-tables and drafted the Privacy (Protection) Bill. Gautam Bhatia gives an analysis of the right to privacy from a constitutional perspective. Bhairav Acharya prepared an updated version of the Privacy Protection Bill which was published for comments.</p>
<p># Call for Comments</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The Privacy Protection Bill, 2013 (by Bhairav Acharya, February 25, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1g3TwIX">http://bit.ly/1g3TwIX</a>. CIS announced an Open Call for Comments to the latest version of the bill.</li>
</ul>
<p># Articles</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The Internet Way (by Nishant Shah, Biblio Vol. 19 No.8 (1&2), January – February 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1kBp9gJ">http://bit.ly/1kBp9gJ</a>. Dr. Nishant Shah's review of the book “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” by Bantam Press/Random House Group, London can be found on page 16.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Surveillance and the Indian Constitution - Part 3: The Public/Private Distinction and the Supreme Court’s Wrong Turn (by Gautam Bhatia, Indian Constitutional Law and Philosophy Blog, February 25, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1kBosnw">http://bit.ly/1kBosnw</a>. This was originally published on Indian Constitutional Law and Philosophy Blog.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Big Democracy, Big Surveillance: India's Surveillance State (by Maria Xynou, Open Democracy, February 28, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1nkg8Ho">http://bit.ly/1nkg8Ho</a>. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Will You be Paid to Post a Picture? (by Nishant Shah, Indian Express, February 18, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/P65d8L">http://bit.ly/P65d8L</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p># Blog Entries</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">February 11: The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance (by Divij Joshi, February 14, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1e7drCV">http://bit.ly/1e7drCV</a>. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Calcutta High Court Strengthens Whistle Blower Protection (by Divij Joshi, February 24, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1cG8v7t">http://bit.ly/1cG8v7t</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">CIS Welcomes 52nd Report on Cyber Crime, Cyber Security, and Right to Privacy (by Elonnai Hickok, February 24, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1oviMJ4">http://bit.ly/1oviMJ4</a>. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">UIDAI Practices and the Information Technology Act, Section 43A and Subsequent Rules (by Elonnai Hickok, February 25, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1fbSfep">http://bit.ly/1fbSfep</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p align="left"># Events Organized</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Nullcon Goa Feb 2014 — International Security Conference (organised by Nullcon, Bogmallo Beach Resort, Goa, February 12 – 15, 2014). CIS is one of the sponsors for this event: <a href="http://bit.ly/1lrBu5I">http://bit.ly/1lrBu5I</a>. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Counter Surveillance Panel: DiscoTech & Hackathon (co-organized by CIS, MIT Centre for Civic Media Co-Design Lab, Tactical Technology Collective, Hackteria.org, and Shristi School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, March 1, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/NCGMyH">http://bit.ly/NCGMyH</a> </li>
</ul>
<p># Participation in Events</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">First Meeting of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group for India Internet Governance Forum (organized by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, New Delhi, February 10, 2014). Sunil Abraham participated in this meeting: <a href="http://bit.ly/1fKu5xz">http://bit.ly/1fKu5xz</a>. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Internet Intermediary Liability: Towards Evidence-based Policy and Regulatory Reform to Secure Human Rights on the internet (organized by Association for Progressive Communications, The Wedgewood, Melville, Johannesburg, February 10-11, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1fMAEK2">http://bit.ly/1fMAEK2</a>. Elonnai Hickok was a speaker. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Towards an Equitable and Just Internet (organized by IT for Change, New Delhi, February 14-15, 2014). Bhairav Acharya was a speaker: <a href="http://bit.ly/1cz9EDt">http://bit.ly/1cz9EDt</a>. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Workshop on Media Law & Policy Curriculum Development (organized by the Centre for Communication Governance, National Law University, Delhi and University of Oxford in support with the International Higher Education-Knowledge Economy Partnerships Programme of the British Council, February 16, 2014, National Law University, Delhi): <a href="http://bit.ly/1ovoT00">http://bit.ly/1ovoT00</a>. Bhairav Acharya was a speaker. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The Changing Role of the Media in India: Constitutional Perspectives (organized by School of Law, Christ University, February 28, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1lB2nTO">http://bit.ly/1lB2nTO</a>. Snehashish Ghosh moderated a session at this conference. </li>
</ul>
<p>--------------------------------<br /><a href="https://cis-india.org/news">News & Media Coverage</a><br />--------------------------------<br />CIS gave its inputs to the following recent media coverage:</p>
<ul>
<li>The Dangers of Birdsong (by Namrata Joshi, Outlook, January 25, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1kB8J7L">http://bit.ly/1kB8J7L</a>. </li>
<li>A Tale of Two Internet Campaigns (by Deepa Kurup, The Hindu, February 11, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1lDdRZy">http://bit.ly/1lDdRZy</a>. </li>
<li>Dark days for the creative class in India: Siddiqui (by Haroon Siddiqui, thestar.com, February 16, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1gdtgbC">http://bit.ly/1gdtgbC</a>. </li>
<li>The Forbes India 30 Under 30 List (by Abhilasha Khaitan, Forbes India, February 21, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1ovnvKM">http://bit.ly/1ovnvKM</a>. Pranesh Prakash features in the list. </li>
<li>India ‘tea parties’ enable politicians to woo urban youth with technology (by Avantika Chilkoti, Financial Times, February 26, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1cGfOMm">http://bit.ly/1cGfOMm</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">--------------------------------<br /><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/digital-humanities">Digital Humanities</a><br />--------------------------------<br />CIS is building research clusters in the field of Digital Humanities. The Digital will be used as a way of unpacking the debates in humanities and social sciences and look at the new frameworks, concepts and ideas that emerge in our engagement with the digital. The clusters aim to produce and document new conversations and debates that shape the contours of Digital Humanities in Asia:</p>
<p># Blog Entries</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Defending the Humanities in the Digital Age (by Nishant Shah, DML Central, February 24, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1czdZqg">http://bit.ly/1czdZqg</a>. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Digital Humanities in India- Mapping Changes at the Intersection of Youth, Technology and Higher Education (by Sneha PP, February 21, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1qd6xo4">http://bit.ly/1qd6xo4</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">--------------------------------<br /><a href="https://cis-india.org/digital-natives">Digital Natives</a><br />--------------------------------<br />CIS is doing a research project titled “Making Change”. The project will explore new ways of defining, locating, and understanding change in network societies. Having the thought piece 'Whose Change is it Anyway' as an entry point for discussion and reflection, the project will feature profiles, interviews and responses of change-makers to questions around current mechanisms and practices of change in South Asia and South East Asia:</p>
<p>►Making Change Project</p>
<p># Blog Entries</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Storytelling as Performance: The Ugly Indian and Blank Noise 1 (by Denisse Albornoz, February 24, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1jX4qBb">http://bit.ly/1jX4qBb</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Storytelling as Performance: The Ugly Indian and Blank Noise 2 (by Denisse Albornoz, February 27, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1fKwQil">http://bit.ly/1fKwQil</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">--------------------------------<br /><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom">Telecom</a><br />--------------------------------<br />Shyam Ponappa, a Distinguished Fellow at CIS is a regular columnist with the Business Standard. The articles published on his blog Organizing India Blogspot is mirrored on our website:</p>
<p># Newspaper Column</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Centre- or State-Driven Development? (by Shyam Ponappa, Business Standard, February 5, 2014, Observer India Blogspot, February 7, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1ceuWFS">http://bit.ly/1ceuWFS</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p># Blog Entry</p>
<ul>
<li>An Introduction to Spectrum Sharing (by Beli, February 24, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/NZlknd">http://bit.ly/NZlknd</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">----------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access">Knowledge Repository on Internet Access</a><br />----------------------------------------------------------<br />CIS in partnership with the Ford Foundation is executing a project to create a knowledge repository on Internet and society. This repository will comprise content targeted primarily at civil society with a view to enabling their informed participation in the Indian Internet and ICT policy space. The repository is available at the Internet Institute website: <a href="http://bit.ly/1iQT2UB">http://bit.ly/1iQT2UB</a>.</p>
<p>►Event Organized</p>
<ul>
<li>Institute on Internet and Society (organised by Ford Foundation and CIS, Yashada, Pune, February 11-17, 2014): <a href="http://bit.ly/1fpTdDS">http://bit.ly/1fpTdDS</a>. Bishakha Datta, Ravikiran Annaswamy, Kingsley John, Prof. G. Nagarjuna, Nisha Thompson, Prashant Naik, Nehaa Chaudhari, Bhairav Acharya, Manu Srivastav, Dr. Abhijeet Safai, Payal Malik, Nishant Shah, Laura Stein, Sunil Abraham, Madan Muthu and Chinmayi Arun taught at the institute. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">-----------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a><br />-----------------------------------------------------<br />The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a>. To discuss collaborations on Indic language Wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at <a href="mailto:vishnu@cis-india.org">vishnu@cis-india.org</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, IDRC and the Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects</i>.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeDigital NativesTelecomAccessibilityInternet GovernanceDigital HumanitiesOpenness2014-04-07T07:27:46ZPageDecember 2013 Bulletin
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/december-2013-bulletin
<b>Our newsletter for the month of December 2013 can be accessed below. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) wish you all a great year ahead and welcome you to the twelfth issue of its newsletter (December) for the year 2013:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">-------------------------------<br />Highlights<br />-------------------------------</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>The National Resource Kit team has published a draft chapter highlighting the state of laws, policies and programmes for persons with disabilities in the state of Gujarat.</li>
<li>Government of India has passed the National Electronic Accessibility Policy. CIS had worked with the Department of Electronics and Information Technology to formulate this policy. We bring you a brief analysis of the policy and provisions therein in a blog post.</li>
<li>Nehaa Chaudhari on behalf of CIS submitted comments on the Proposed WIPO Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations to the Ministry of Human Resource Development.</li>
<li>CIS-A2K team has published a report highlighting the key accomplishments about the work accomplished on Konkani Wikipedia from September to December 2013.</li>
<li>Vipul Kharbanda has provided an analysis of the laws and regulations that apply to Bitcoin in India concluding that government can regulate Bitcoin. </li>
<li>We released the first documentary film (DesiSec) on cyber security in India in Bangalore on December 11.</li>
<li>In the module on Global Histories of the Internet (part of the Knowledge Repository on Internet Access project) Nishant Shah analyses the understanding of the internet, cyberspace and everyday life and why do we need to know the history of the internet.</li>
<li>The second "Institute on Internet and Society" will be held in Yashada, Pune from February 11 to 17, 2014.</li>
<li>As part of the Making Change project, Denisse Albornoz provides an analysis of the benefits and limitations of increasing access to information to enable citizenship and political participation.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">-----------------------------------------------<br /><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4615&qid=367159">Jobs</a><br />-----------------------------------------------<br />CIS is seeking applications for the posts of Program Officer (Access to Knowledge) and Program Officer (Internet Governance): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4616&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1aA57K6</a>. There are two vacancies each for these posts and these are full-time based in Delhi. To apply, please send your resume to Sunil Abraham (<a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a>) and Pranesh Prakash (<a href="mailto:pranesh@cis-india.org">pranesh@cis-india.org</a>) with three writing samples of which at least one demonstrates your analytic skills, and one that shows your ability to simplify complex policy issues.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">----------------------------------------------<br /><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4617&qid=367159">Accessibility and Inclusion</a><br />----------------------------------------------<br />As part of our project (under a grant from the Hans Foundation) on creating a national resource kit of state-wise laws, policies and programmes on issues relating to persons with disabilities in India, we bring you draft chapters for the states of Madhya Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh, and the union territory of Daman and Diu. With this we have completed compilation of draft chapters for 27 states and 5 union territories. Feedback and comments are invited from readers for the following chapter:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► National Resource Kit Chapter</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>The Gujarat Chapter (by Anandhi Viswanathan, December 31, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4618&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/Kxbg3b</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Note: <i>All of the chapters published so far in this project are early drafts and will be reviewed and updated</i>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><br />►Other</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Media Coverage</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>An “Advocacy” Saga and the Inspiring Legacy of Rahul Cherian (by Shamnad Basheer, Spicy IP, December 16, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4619&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1a5B7sU</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Blog Entry</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>National Policy on Universal Electronic Accessibility – An Analysis (by Anandhi Viswanathan, December 27, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4620&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1dfCW3I</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">-----------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4621&qid=367159">Access to Knowledge</a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------<br />The Access to Knowledge programme addresses the harms caused to consumers and human rights, and critically examines Open Government Data, Open Access to Scholarly Literature, and Open Access to Law, Open Content, Open Standards, and Free/Libre/Open Source Software.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Submission</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Comments on Proposed WIPO Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations (by Nehaa Chaudhari, December 7, 2013). CIS submitted its comments to the Ministry of Human Resource Development: <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4622&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1hpWeuu</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Events Participated In</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>3rd Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest & Open A.I.R. Conference on Innovation and IP in Africa (organized by University of Cape Town, December 9-13, 2013). Sunil Abraham participated as a speaker in the sessions on Bridging into the Global Congress: Global Issues, Local Answers?, User Rights Track: What Medicines Can Teach Tech: Exploring Patent Pooling and Compulsory Licensing in the Indian Mobile Device Market (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4623&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1f74yir</a>), User Rights Track: Reclaiming the World Trade Organisation: A Modest Proposal for a WTO Agreement on the Supply of Global Public Goods (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4623&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1f74yir</a>), and was a keynote speaker on The Freedom Continuum (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4624&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1dH1WEM</a>). Nehaa Chaudhari also participated in this event: <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4625&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1bJArFJ</a>. </li>
<li>Twenty-Sixth Session of the Standing Committee on Copyrights and Related Rights (organized by WIPO, Geneva, December 16 – 20, 2013). CIS gave its statement on Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4626&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/JWnjq7</a>) and on Limitations and Exceptions for Education, Teaching and Research Institutions and Persons with Other Disabilities (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4626&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/JWnjq7</a>). Nehaa Chaudhari participated as a speaker. India and the United States introduced 6 proposals on the WIPO Broadcast Treaty: <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4627&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1edqvr3</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The following has been done under grant from the Wikimedia Foundation (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4628&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/SPqFOl</a>). As part this project (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4629&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/X80ELd</a>), we held 3 workshops in the month of December, published a detailed report of key accomplishments of the work done in Konkani Wikipedia, a report on Train the Trainer Program held in the month of October and published an article in DNA.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Wikipedia</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Article</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Telugu Wikipedia completes 10 years (by Rahmanuddin Shaik, DNA, December 16, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4630&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/19OAvUV</a>. The article was edited by Rohini Lakshané. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Report</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>CIS-A2K: Work Accomplished on Konkani Wikipedia (by Nitika Tandon, December 31, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4631&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1l6ttmp</a>. The report throws some light on the work accomplished on Konkani Wikipedia from September to December 2013.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Blog Entries</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>First ever Train-the-Trainer Program in India (by Nitika Tandon, December 5, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4632&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1euwSXt</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>The following are videos of participants from the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization project (jointly organised by CIS-A2K and Goa University) speaking on their experiences with Wikimedia projects</i>.</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Priyadarshini Tadkodkar on Konkani language (by Subhashish Panigrahi, November 17, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4633&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1hldNM8</a>. <i>We are featuring this here as we didn’t carry this in the last newsletter</i>. </li>
<li>Varsha Kavlekar on Konkani Wikipedia Incubator (by Nitika Tandon, December 12, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4634&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/KmxyFo</a>.</li>
<li>Darshan Kandolkar on Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Process (by Nitika Tandon, December 13, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4635&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1cqKyQ2</a>.</li>
<li>Darshana Mandrekar speaks on Konkani Wikipedia (by Nitika Tandon, December 16, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4636&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1keWyya</a>.</li>
<li>Pooja Tople on Wikimedia Projects (by Nitika Tandon, December 17, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4637&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1hlbubU</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Events Organised</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>You Too Can Write on Wikipedia! — Training workshop (National Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, December 5, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4638&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1edmx1z</a>.</li>
<li>Telugu Wikipedia Training Workshop (KBN College, Vijaywada, December 16, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4639&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1i8ScnL</a>.</li>
<li>Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Alvas Vishva Nudisiri Virasat (Moodabidre, December 19 – 22, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a presentation about Kannada Wikipedia and also conducted a workshop on Kannada Wikipedia as a parallel track. The event was covered by Prajavani (December 22), Hosadigantha (December 22), and Deccan Herald (December 22): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4640&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1dGTBkw</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Events Co-organised</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Wikipedia Orientation Workshop (organised by CIS-A2K and Christ University, Bangalore, December 2, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4641&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1lrkwEy</a>. </li>
<li>Wikipedia Training Session @ Tiruvur (organised by CIS-A2K and Telugu Wikipedia community, Srivahini College, Tiruvur, December 19, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan and Rahmanuddin Shaik conducted the workshop: <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4642&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1e3oQX7</a>. It was covered by Andhraprabha (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4643&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1bU5VsQ</a>), Eenadu (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4644&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/19fsttf</a>), Sakshi (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4645&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1e3pQdU</a>), and Prajasakthi (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4646&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/JJs7ja</a>) on December 19, 2013.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Event Participated In</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>A Wikipedia Workshop at IISC (organised by the Assamese Wikipedia community, Bangalore, December 1, 2013). CIS-A2K team and Wikipedian Shiju Alex supported this event: <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4647&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1dSutY2</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Media Coverage</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS gave its inputs for the following media coverage:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>A Feature on Telugu Wikipedia (Namaste Telengana Newspaper, December 8, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4648&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/19Yjwj6</a>.</li>
<li>Odisha: Odia Wikipedia reaching 5000 article mark! (Odisha Diary Bureau, December 17, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4649&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1dGU2vc</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">-----------------------------------------------<br /><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4650&qid=367159">Internet Governance</a><br />-----------------------------------------------<br />CIS is doing a project (under a grant from Privacy International and International Development Research Centre (IDRC)) on conducting research on surveillance and freedom of expression (SAFEGUARDS). So far we have organised seven privacy round-tables and drafted the Privacy (Protection) Bill. This month we bring you an analysis on whether Bitcoin can be banned by the government and a blog post on misuse of surveillance powers in India. As part of its project (funded by Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto and support from the IDRC) on mapping cyber security actors in South Asia and South East Asia a film DesiSec: Episode 1was screened. We also did an interview with Pranesh Prakash on cyber security. With this we have completed a total of 13 video interviews so far:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Analysis</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Can Bitcoin Be Banned by the Indian Government? (by Vipul Kharbanda, December 24, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4651&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1lJrnGF</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Blog Entries</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Misuse of Surveillance Powers in India (Case 1) (by Pranesh Prakash, December 6, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4652&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1donbaJ</a>.</li>
<li>Brochures from Expos on Smart Cards, e-Security, RFID & Biometrics in India (by Maria Xynou, December 18, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4653&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1f714fN</a>.</li>
<li>India’s Identity Crisis (by Malavika Jayaram, December 31, 2013 Internet Monitor Annual Report: Reflections on the Digital World, published by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4654&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1lTRuuz</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Upcoming Events</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Digital Citizens: Why Cyber Security and Online Privacy are Vital to the Success of Democracy and Freedom of Expression (CIS, Bangalore, January 14, 2014): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4655&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/KucEU5</a>. Michael Oghia will give a talk. </li>
<li>CPDP 2014 Reforming Data Protection: The Global Perspective (Brussels, January 22 – 24, 2014): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4656&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/KsgCws</a>.</li>
<li>Nullcon Goa Feb 2014 — International Security Conference (organised by Nullcon, Bogmallo Beach Resort, Goa, February 12 – 15, 2014). CIS is one of the sponsors for this event: <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4657&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1lrBu5I</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Events Organised</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Big Democracy: Big Surveillance - A talk by Maria Xynou (CIS, Bangalore, December 3, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4658&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/19YnA31</a>.</li>
<li>DesiSec: Episode 1 - Film Release and Screening (CIS, December 11, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4659&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1lJt2fm</a>.</li>
<li>Legal Issues pertaining to Cloud Computing (NLSIU Campus, Bangalore, December 14-15, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4660&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1cvcmGq</a>.</li>
<li>Biometrics or Bust? Implications of the UID for Participation and Inclusion (CIS, Bangalore, January 10, 2014). Malavika Jayaram will give a talk: <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4661&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1lJZhuK</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Events Participated In</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Convention on Crisis of Capitalism and brazen onslaught on Democracy (organized by INSAF, December 6, 2013). Snehashish Ghosh participated as a speaker: <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4662&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1gAxmNy</a>.</li>
<li>International View of the State-of-the-Art of Cryptography and Security and its Use in Practice (IV) (jointly organized by Microsoft Research India, Indian Institute of Science, and Indian Institute of Technology Madras, December 6, 2013). Sunil Abraham was a panellist: <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4663&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1eAXl5t</a>.</li>
<li>Technology in Government and Topics in Privacy (organized by Data Privacy Lab, CGIS Cafe, Cambridge Street, Harvard University Campus, December 9, 2013). Malavika Jayaram participated as a speaker on Biometrics in Beta – India's Identity Experiment: <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4664&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1bJDqht</a>.</li>
<li>Cyberscholars Working Group at MIT (organized by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, December 12, 2013): Malavika Jayaram made a presentation on Biometrics or Bust - India’s Identity Crisis: <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4665&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1eIpHef</a>.</li>
<li>Seventh NLSIR Symposium on “Bridging the Security-Liberty Divide” (organised by National Law School, Bangalore, December 21-22). Chinmayi Arun and Bhairav Acharya were speakers at this event: <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4666&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1gjsxYe</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">--------------------------------<br /><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4667&qid=367159">News & Media Coverage</a><br />--------------------------------<br />CIS gave its inputs to the following media coverage:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>MongoDB startup hired by Aadhaar got funds from CIA VC arm (by Lison Joseph, Economic Times, December 3, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4668&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1f77bRg</a>.</li>
<li>A Three-Way Race Draws Delhi’s Young, and Everyone Else, Out to Vote (by Betwa Sharma, New York Times, December 4, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4669&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1gAxoFf</a>.</li>
<li>India for UN body to resolve internet governance issues (by Kim Arora, The Times of India, December 5, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4670&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/JWESqe</a>.</li>
<li>Card transactions with Aadhaar validation need more time: experts (by Kirti V. Rao and Moulishree Srivastava, Livemint, December 5, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4671&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1hq35UL</a>.</li>
<li>Indian government wakes up to risk of Hotmail, Gmail (originally published by AFP, December 7, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4672&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/19LrlOS</a>. This was also mirrored in The Times of India (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4673&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1hpYEJu</a>), Reuters (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4674&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1gaHhZk</a>), Dawn (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4675&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1azuV95</a>), NDTV (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4676&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/19Ys7lS</a>), Yahoo News (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4677&qid=367159">http://yhoo.it/JCSreE</a>), The Malaysian Insider (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4678&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1eAPAMW</a>) and Asia One Digital (<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4679&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/JWuw9R</a>). A slightly modified version was published by Silicon India on December 11: <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4680&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1gAtzjd</a>. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Announcement</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Pranesh Prakash has been elected as the Asia-Pacific representative to the executive committee of the NonCommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) (part of the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group, which is in turn part of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, which is in turn part of ICANN): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4681&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/KuIVeC</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">--------------------------------<br /><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4682&qid=367159">Telecom</a><br />-------------------------------<br />Shyam Ponappa, a Distinguished Fellow at CIS is a regular columnist with the Business Standard. The articles published on his blog Organizing India Blogspot is mirrored on our website:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Newspaper Column</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>For a Telecom Revival (by Shyam Ponappa, Business Standard, December 4, 2013 and Organizing India Blogspot, December 5, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4683&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1avRDii</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">--------------------------------<br /><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4684&qid=367159">Digital Humanities</a><br />--------------------------------<br />CIS is building research clusters in the field of Digital Humanities. The Digital will be used as a way of unpacking the debates in humanities and social sciences and look at the new frameworks, concepts and ideas that emerge in our engagement with the digital. The clusters aim to produce and document new conversations and debates that shape the contours of Digital Humanities in Asia:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Blog Entry</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>The Conflict of Konigsberg (by Anirudh Sridhar, December 17, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4685&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1cEXhhU</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">--------------------------------<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4686&qid=367159"><br />Digital Natives</a><br />--------------------------------<br />CIS is doing a research project titled “Making Change”. The project will explore new ways of defining, locating, and understanding change in network societies. Having the thought piece 'Whose Change is it Anyway' as an entry point for discussion and reflection, the project will feature profiles, interviews and responses of change-makers to questions around current mechanisms and practices of change in South Asia and South East Asia:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Making Change Project</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Blog Entries</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Tactical Technology: Information is Power? (by Denisse Albornoz, December 26, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4687&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1cEUrcY</a>.</li>
<li>Tactical Technology: Designing Activism (by Denisse Albornoz, December 27, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4688&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1a9IuzH</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Other</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Newspaper Column</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Digital Native (by Nishant Shah, Indian Express, December 22, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4689&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1f7mU2P</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4690&qid=367159">Knowledge Repository on Internet Access</a><br />------------------------------------------------------------<br />CIS in partnership with the Ford Foundation is executing a project to create a knowledge repository on Internet and society. This repository will comprise content targeted primarily at civil society with a view to enabling their informed participation in the Indian Internet and ICT policy space. The repository is available at the Internet Institute website: <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4691&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/1iQT2UB</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Upcoming Event</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Institute on Internet and Society (organised by Ford Foundation and CIS, Yashada, Pune, February 11-17, 2014): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4692&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/180mQi9</a>. Registrations are closed for this event.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "># Modules</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>History of the Internet: Building Conceptual Frameworks (by Nishant Shah, December 31, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4693&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/19WRHLb</a>.</li>
<li>Internet Privacy in India (by Elonnai Hickok, December 31, 2013): <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4694&qid=367159">http://bit.ly/19SNk6v</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">-----------------------------------------------------<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4695&qid=367159"><br />About CIS</a><br />-----------------------------------------------------<br />The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Follow us elsewhere</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Twitter:<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4696&qid=367159">https://twitter.com/CISA2K</a></li>
<li>Facebook group: <a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4697&qid=367159">https://www.facebook.com/cisa2k</a></li>
<li>Visit us at:<a href="http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4698&qid=367159">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge</a></li>
<li>E-mail: <a href="mailto:a2k@cis-india.org">a2k@cis-india.org</a></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Support Us</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Request for Collaboration:<br />We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a>. To discuss collaborations on Indic language wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at <a href="mailto:vishnu@cis-india.org">vishnu@cis-india.org</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects</i>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/december-2013-bulletin'>https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/december-2013-bulletin</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeDigital NativesTelecomAccessibilityInternet GovernanceDigital HumanitiesOpenness2014-02-25T13:51:47ZPageJune 2013 Bulletin
https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/june-2013-bulletin
<b>Our newsletter for the month of June 2013 can be accessed below.</b>
<hr />
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) welcomes you to the sixth issue of its newsletter for 2013. Hivos published a White Paper by Nishant Shah titled <a href="https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/blog/hivos-knowledge-programme-june-14-2013-nishant-shah-whose-change-is-it-anyway">Whose Change is it Anyway?</a>, which attempts to reflect critically on existing patterns of making change and its implications for the future of citizen action in information and network societies. The Access to Knowledge team carried out a <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/indian-language-wikipedia-statistics">quantitative analysis to identify trends and growth patterns in Indian Language Wikipedias</a> from September 2012 to April 2013. CIS drafted the <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/privacy-protection-bill-2013-with-amendments-based-on-public-feedback">Privacy Protection Bill</a> and amended it as per feedback gained from the New Delhi, Bangalore, and Chennai Privacy Roundtable Events. CIS made <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/cis-closing-statement-marrakesh-treaty-for-the-blind">closing statement on the Treaty for the Blind</a> at the WIPO Diplomatic Conference which was concluded with the adoption of the <a href="http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=241683">Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or otherwise Print Disabled</a>. In a <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/patent-pools">research paper</a> Nehaa Chaudhari gives an analysis of patent pools, Sameer Boray gives an <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/the-right-way-to-fight-video-piracy">analysis of video piracy</a> and Pranav Menon <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/india-eu-fta-issues-surrounding-data-protection-and-security">gives an analysis of India-EU FTA and issues surrounding data protection and security</a>. In this period we organised the <a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access/institute-on-internet-and-society">Institute on Internet and Society</a> with support from the Ford Foundation at Golden Palms, Bangalore from June 8 to 14, 2013.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Celebrating 5 Years of CIS</b><br />CIS is now 5 years old and we just celebrated this by holding an open exhibition in our offices in Bangalore and Delhi from May 20 to 23, showcasing our work and accomplishments over the period. We had about 170 visitors from the general public coming in to our office. Videos of the event are <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/celebrating-5-years-of-cis">here</a>.</p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/google-policy-fellowship-call-for-applications-2013"><b>Google Policy Fellowship</b></a><br />CIS has initiated processing of applications for the Google Policy Fellowship programme. Shortlisted candidates would be informed about their interview. However, as of now there will be a 20 days delay in announcing the list for the interview.</p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Jobs</b><br /> CIS is inviting applications for the posts of <a href="https://cis-india.org/jobs/vacancy-for-developer">Developer</a> (NVDA Screen Reader Project) and <a href="https://cis-india.org/jobs/content-developer-requirement">Editor/Content Developer</a>. To apply for these posts, send in your resume to Nirmita Narasimhan (<a href="mailto:nirmita@cis-india.org">nirmita@cis-india.org</a>). CIS is also seeking applications for the post of <a href="https://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-officer-internet-governance">Programme Officer</a> (Internet Governance). To apply send your resume to Sunil Abraham (<a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a>) and Pranesh Prakash (<a href="mailto:pranesh@cis-india.org">pranesh@cis-india.org</a>).</p>
<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is doing two projects in partnership with the <b>Hans Foundation</b>. One is to create a national resource kit of state-wise laws, policies and programmes on issues relating to persons with disabilities in India and another for developing a screen reader and text-to- speech synthesizer for Indian languages:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>National Resource Kit for Persons with Disabilities</b><br />CIS and the Centre for Law and Policy Research (CLPR) are working in this project. Draft chapters have been published. Feedback and comments are invited from readers for the chapter on Jharkhand:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/national-resource-kit-jharkhand-call-for-comments">The Jharkhand Chapter</a> (by CLPR, June 30, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Note: <i>All the chapters published on the website are early drafts and will be reviewed and updated</i>.</p>
<p><b>Award</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/girls-in-ict-day-2013-in-delhi">Girls in ICT Day 2013</a> (organized by ITU-APT Foundation of India with support from CMAI - Association of India Communication and Infrastructure, FICCI Auditorium, Tansen Marg, New Delhi, May 7, 2013). Dr. Nirmita Narasimhan got a felicitation for her contribution and achievements in the field of Information and Communication Technology. The honour was conferred during the celebration of this event.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Media Coverage</b></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/business-world-june-26-2013-chitra-narayanan-a-treat-for-the-blind">A Treat for the Blind</a> (by Chitra Narayanan, Business World, June 26, 2013). Pranesh Prakash was quoted. </li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a> and <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness">Openness</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Wikimedia Foundation has given a <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">grant</a> to CIS to support and develop the growth of Indic language communities and projects by community collaborations and partnerships. This is being carried out by the Access to Knowledge team based in Delhi. CIS is also doing a project (Pervasive Technologies) on examining the relationship between production of pervasive technologies and intellectual property. CIS also promotes openness including open government data, open standards, open access, and free/libre/open source software through its Openness programme.</p>
<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k"><b>Access to Knowledge</b></a><b> (Previously IP Reforms)</b></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>WIPO</b><br />Pranesh Prakash participated in the WIPO Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities in Marrakesh, Morocco, June 17 to 28, 2013. The conference concluded with the adoption of the Marrakesh Treaty to facilitate access to published works by blind persons, persons with visual impairment, and other print disabled persons, by requiring mandatory exceptions in copyright law to enable conversions of books into accessible formats, and by enabling cross-border transfer of accessible format books. Click for:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/cis-closing-statement-marrakesh-treaty-for-the-blind">CIS's Closing Statement at Marrakesh on the Treaty for the Blind</a> (by Pranesh Prakash, June 28, 2013).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/india-closing-statement-marrakesh-treaty-for-the-blind">India's Closing Statement at Marrakesh on the Treaty for the Blind</a> (June 29, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p><b>Pervasive Technologies</b></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/patent-pools">Pervasive Technologies: Patent Pools</a> (by Nehaa Chaudhari, June 27, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p><b>Other (FTA, Piracy)</b></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/the-right-way-to-fight-video-piracy">The Right Way to Fight Video Piracy?</a> (by Sameer Boray, June 6, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/india-eu-fta-issues-surrounding-data-protection-and-security">India-EU Proposed Free Trade Agreement: Issues Surrounding Data Protection and Security</a> (by Pranav Menon, June 8, 2013).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/india-eu-fta-copyright-issues">India- EU FTA: A Note on the Copyright Issues</a> (by Nehaa Chaudhari, June 18, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Event Participated</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/inet-bangkok-june-8-2013-governance-in-the-age-of-internet-and-fta">Governance in the Age of the Internet and Free Trade Agreements</a> (organized by Thai Netizen Network and co-hosted by the Ministry of Information and Communication and the National Science and Technology Development Agency, Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, June 8, 2013). Sunil Abraham was a speaker.</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><b>Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia)</b></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" title="Access To Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of three members based in Bangalore: <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Dr. U.B. Pavanaja</a> and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and one team member <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Nitika Tandon</a> who is working from Delhi office.</p>
<p><b>Statistical Report</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/indian-language-wikipedia-statistics">Indian Language Wikipedia Statistics</a> (by Nitika Tandon, June 30, September 2012 – April 2013).</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Event Organised</b></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-bloggers">A 'Kannada' Wikipedia Workshop for Bloggers</a> (Suchitra, Bengaluru, June 23, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted the workshop.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Event Co-organised</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/my-first-wikipedia-training-workshop">Telugu Wikipedia Training Workshop</a> (co-organised by A2K team and Theatre Outreach Unit, University of Hyderabad, Golden Threshold, Nampally, Hyderabad, March 8, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan conducted the workshop.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Upcoming Event</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/digital-humanities-for-indian-higher-education">Digital Humanities for Indian Higher Education</a> (co-organised by HEIRA-CSCS, Tumkur University, CILHE-TISS and CCS, Indian Institute of Science, July 13, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/my-first-wikipedia-training-workshop">My First Wikipedia Training Workshop – Theatre Outreach Unit, University of Hyderabad</a> (by T. Vishnu Vardhan, June 26, 2013). <i>The workshop was conducted in March but the report was published only in June</i>.</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/visual-editor.pdf/view">Wikipedia Visual Editor</a> (by Nitika Tandon, June 27, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Press Coverage (including videos)</b></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/hmtv-may-30-2013-wikipedia-and-telegu-wikipedians">A Feature on Wikipedia and Telegu Wikipedians</a> (HMTV, May 30-31, 2013). Watch the video.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-live-phone-in-programme">Wikipedia Live Phone-in Programme</a> (HMTV, June 1, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan took part in a one hour live phone-in programme on Wikipedia.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/timeout-bengaluru-akhila-seetharaman-june-21-2013-wiki-donors">Wiki donors</a> (by Akhila Seetharaman, TimeOut Bengaluru, June 21, 2013). T. Vishnu Vardhan and Dr. U.B. Pavanaja are quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-june-5-2013-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-coverage">Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Hasan</a> (Prajavani, June 5, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted the workshop on June 4, 2013.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/samyukta-karnataka-june-5-2013-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-coverage">Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Hasan</a> (Samyukta Karnataka, June 5, 2013). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja conducted the workshop on June 4, 2013.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/vijaya-karnataka-june-5-2013-report-of-kannada-wikipedia-workshop-in-hasan">Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Hasan</a> (Vijaya Karnataka, June 5, 2013). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja conducted the workshop on June 4, 2013.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/suvarna-news-june-13-2013-wiki-rahasya-panel-discussion">Wiki Rahasya: Panel Discussion</a> (Suvarna News, June 13, 2013). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja participated in a panel discussion around Wikipedia in general and about Kannada Wikipedia in specific.</li>
</ul>
<h3><b>Openness</b></h3>
<p><b>Column</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/dml-central-june-24-2013-nishant-shah-big-data-peoples-lives-and-importance-of-openness">Big Data, People's Lives, and the Importance of Openness</a> (by Nishant Shah, DML Central, June 24, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Event Hosted</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/bangalore-rhok-june-1-2-2013-report">RHoK Global Event</a> (Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, June 1 – 2, 2013). Yogesh Londhe shares with you a post-event report.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS began two projects earlier this year. The first one on facilitating research and events on surveillance and freedom of expression is with Privacy International and support from the International Development Research Centre, Canada. The second one on mapping cyber security actors in South Asia and South East Asia is with the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto and support from the International Development Research Centre, Canada:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Cyber Stewards Project</b><br />Laird Brown, a strategic planner and writer with core competencies on brand analysis, public relations and resource management and Purba Sarkar who in the past worked as a strategic advisor in the field of SAP Retail are working in this project.</p>
<p><b>Video Interview</b></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/cis-cybersecurity-series-part-2-ram-mohan">An Interview with Ram Mohan</a> (June 30, 2013)</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Event Organized</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/geo-politics-of-information-controls">The Geopolitics of Information Controls: A Presentation by Masashi Crete-Nishihata</a> (TERI, Bangalore, June 19, 2013). About 20 people participated in the event.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Privacy Research</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/privacy-protection-bill-2013-with-amendments-based-on-public-feedback">Privacy Protection Bill, 2013</a> (With Amendments based on Public Feedback) (by Elonnai Hickok, June 30, 2013): CIS drafted the Bill. Based on feedback received from the New Delhi, Bangalore, and Chennai Roundtables the Bill was amended. </li>
</ul>
<p><b>Interviews</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/interview-with-citizen-lab-on-internet-filtering">Interview with the Citizen Lab on Internet Filtering in India</a> (June 24, 2013). Maria Xynou interviewed Masashi Crete-Nishihata and Jakub Dalek from the Citizen Lab on internet filtering in India.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/interview-with-irish-data-protection-commissioner">Interview with Billy Hawkes</a> (June 20, 2014). Maria Xynou interviewed Billy Hawkes, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner on recommendations for data protection in India.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Columns</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<ul>
<b> </b>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/economic-times-june-13-2013-pranesh-prakash-indian-surveillance-laws-and-practices-far-worse-than-us">Indian Surveillance Laws & Practices Far Worse than US</a> (by Pranesh Prakash, Economic Times, June 13, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/indian-express-june-14-2013-nishant-shah-world-wide-rule">World Wide Rule</a> (by Nishant Shah, Indian Express, June 14, 2013). Nishant Shah reviews Schmidt and Cohen's book “The New Digital Age”.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/indian-express-june-26-2013-chinmayi-arun-way-to-watch">Way to Watch</a> (by Chinmayi Arun, Indian Express, June 26, 2013). </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/india-together-june-26-2013-snehashish-ghosh-the-state-is-snooping-can-you-escape">The State is Snooping: Can You Escape?</a> (by Snehashish Ghosh, India Together, June 26, 2013). </li>
</ul>
<p><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/india-subject-to-nsa-dragnet-surveillance">India Subject to NSA Dragnet Surveillance! No Longer a Hypothesis — It is Now Officially Confirmed</a> (by Maria Xynou, June 13, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/sebi-and-communication-surveillance">SEBI and Communication Surveillance: New Rules, New Responsibilities?</a> (by Kovey Coles, June 27, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/open-letter-to-not-recognize-india-as-data-secure-nation">Open Letter to "Not" Recognize India as Data Secure Nation till Enactment of Privacy Legislation</a> (by Elonnai Hickok, June 19, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/open-letter-to-siam-on-rfid%20installation-in-vehicles">Open Letter to Prevent the Installation of RFID tags in Vehicles</a> (by Maria Xynou, June 27, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Events Organised</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<ul>
<b> </b>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/technology-power-and-revolutions-in-arab-spring">Technology, Power, and Revolutions in the Arab Spring</a> (CIS, July 2, 2013). Prof. Ramesh Srinivasan gave a talk.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/cryptoparty-bangalore">Learn to Secure Your Online Communication!</a> (CIS, Bangalore, June 30, 2013). A Crypto Party was organised.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/cryptoparty-delhi">Learn to Secure Your Online Communication!</a> (IIC, Delhi University, South Campus, New Delhi, July 6, 2013). A Crypto Party was organised.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Event Co-organised</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<ul>
<b> </b>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/report-on-the-4th-privacy-round-table-meeting">4<sup>th</sup> Privacy Round Table Meeting</a> (co-organised with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the Data Security Council of India, Mumbai, June 15, 2013). </li>
</ul>
<p><b>Upcoming / Ongoing Events</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/digital-activism-in-europe">Digital Activism in Europe</a> (The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, July 8, 2013). Bernadette Längle will give a talk.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/privacy-round-table-kolkata">Privacy Round Table, Kolkata</a> (co-organised with the Federation for Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, and the Data Security Council of India, Lytton Hotel, Sudder Street, Kolkata, July 13, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Event Participated In</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/biometrics-or-bust-indias-identity-crisis">Biometrics or bust? India's Identity Crisis</a> (organized by the Oxford Internet Institute, July 2, 2013). Malavika Jayaram was a speaker.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Video</b></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/tehelka-june-15-2013-pranesh-prakash-on-us-snooping-into-indian-cyber-space">Pranesh Prakash on the US snooping into Indian cyber space</a> (by Tehelka, June 2013).</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Media Coverage</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-times-of-india-kim-arora-june-6-2013-indian-student-in-cornell-university-hacks-icse-isc-databas">Indian student in Cornell University hacks into ICSE, ISC database</a> (by Kim Arora, Times of India, June 6, 2013). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-june-7-2013-vasudha-venugopal-karthik-subramanian-hacking-sparks-row-over-exam-evaluation">‘Hacking’ sparks row over exam evaluation</a> (by Vasudha Venugopal and Karthik Subramanian, Hindu, June 7, 2013). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-javed-anwer-ishan-srivastava-june-8-2013-internet-firms-deny-existence-of-prism">Internet firms deny existence of PRISM</a> (by Javed Anwer and Ishan Srivastava, Times of India, June 8, 2013). Sunil Abraham and Pranesh Prakash are quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/tech-dirt-june-8-2013-indian-govt-quietly-brings-central-monitoring-system">Indian Government Quietly Brings In Its 'Central Monitoring System': Total Surveillance Of All Telecommunications</a> (Tech Dirt, June 8, 2013). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-javed-anwer-june-9-2013-facebook-google-deny-spying-access">Facebook, Google deny spying access</a> (by Javed Anwer, Times of India, June 9, 2013). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/hindu-businessline-thomas-k-thomas-june-10-2013-govt-mulls-advisory-on-privacy-issues-related-to-google-facebook">Govt mulls advisory on privacy issues related to Google, Facebook</a> (by Thomas K Thomas, Hindu Business Line, June 10, 2013). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-june-22-2013-kim-arora-cyber-experts-suggest-open-source-software-to-protect-privacy">Cyber experts suggest using open source software to protect privacy</a> (by Kim Arora, Times of India, June 22, 2013). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-javed-anwer-june-26-2013-govt-goes-after-porn-makes-isps-ban-sites">Govt goes after porn, makes ISPs ban sites</a> (by Javed Anwer, Times of India, June 26, 2013). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-register-phil-muncaster-june-27-2013-indian-govt-blocks-40-smut-sites-forgets-to-give-reason">Indian govt blocks 40 smut sites, forgets to give reason</a> (by Phil Muncaster, The Register, June 27, 2013). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/hindustan-times-aloke-tikku-june-28-2013-concerns-over-central-snoop">Concerns over central snoop</a> (by Aloke Tikku, Hindustan Times, June 28, 2013). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-maitreyee-boruah-june-29-2013-internet-users-enraged-over-us-online-spying">Internet users enraged over US online spying</a> (by Maitreyee Boruah, Times of India, June 29, 2013). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/livemint-anirban-sen-june-29-2013-issue-of-duplication-of-identities-of-users-under-control">Issue of duplication of identities of users under control: Nilekani</a> (by Anirban Sen, Livemint, June 29, 2013). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/time-world-anjan-trivedi-june-30-2013-in-india-prison-like-surveillance-slips-under-the-radar">In India, Prism-like Surveillance Slips Under the Radar</a> (by Anjan Trivedi, Time World, June 30, 2013). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access">Knowledge Repository on Internet Access</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS in partnership with the Ford Foundation is executing a project on Internet Access. It covers the history of the internet, technologies involved, principle and values of internet access, broadband market and universal access. It will also touch upon various policies and regulations which has an impact on internet access and bodies and mechanism which are responsible for formulation of policies related to internet access. The blog posts and modules are being published in the <a href="http://www.internet-institute.in/">Internet Institute website</a>:</p>
<p><b>Event Organised</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access/institute-on-internet-and-society">Institute on Internet and Society</a> (supported by Ford Foundation, Golden Palms Resort, Bangalore, June 8 – 14, 2013). Pranesh Prakash, Bernadette Längle, Vir Kamal Chopra, AK Bhargava, Ananth Guruswamy, Archana Gulati, Chakshu Roy, Elonnai Hickok, Gaurab Raj Upadhaya, Helani Galpaya, Michael Ginguld, Dr. Nadeem Akhtar, C. Nandini, Dr. Nirmita Narasimhan, Dr. Nishant Shah, Parminder Jeet Singh, Ravikiran Annaswamy, Dr. Ravina Aggarwal, Satyen Gupta, Dr. Subbiah Arunachalam, Sunil Abraham, Tulika Pandey and T. Vishnu Vardhan were speakers at the event. The presentations can be accessed <a href="http://internet-institute.in/repository">here</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/telecom">Telecom</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is involved in promoting access and accessibility to telecommunications services and resources and has provided inputs to ongoing policy discussions and consultation papers published by TRAI. It has prepared reports on unlicensed spectrum and accessibility of mobile phones for persons with disabilities and also works with the USOF to include funding projects for persons with disabilities in its mandate:</p>
<p><b>Newspaper Column</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/business-standard-article-opinion-shyam-ponappa-june-5-2013-law-and-order-through-traffic-systems">Law & Order through Traffic Systems</a> (by Shyam Ponappa, Business Standard, June 5, 2013 and cross-posted in <a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/business-standard-article-opinion-shyam-ponappa-june-5-2013-law-and-order-through-traffic-systems">Organizing India Blogspot</a>).</li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/digital-natives">Digital Natives</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Digital Natives with a Cause? examines the changing landscape of social change and political participation in light of the role that young people play through digital and Internet technologies, in emerging information societies. Consolidating knowledge from Asia, Africa and Latin America, it builds a global network of knowledge partners who critically engage with discourse on youth, technology and social change, and look at alternative practices and ideas in the Global South:</p>
<p><b>White Paper</b></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/blog/hivos-knowledge-programme-june-14-2013-nishant-shah-whose-change-is-it-anyway">Whose Change is it Anyway?</a> (by Nishant Shah, Hivos, June 18, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/digital-humanities">Digital Humanities</a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We are building research clusters in the field of Digital Humanities. The Digital will be used as a way of unpacking the debates in humanities and social sciences and look at the new frameworks, concepts and ideas that emerge in our engagement with the digital. The clusters aim to produce and document new conversations and debates that shape the contours of Digital Humanities in Asia.</p>
<p><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/digital-humanities/mapping-the-field-of-digital-humanities">Mapping the Field of Digital Humanities</a> (by Sara Morais, June 11, 2013).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/a-suggested-set-of-values-for-the-digital-humanities">A Suggested Set of Values for the Digital Humanities</a> (by Sara Morais, June 12, 2013).</li>
<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/digital-humanities/archive-practice-and-digital-humanities">Archive Practice and Digital Humanities</a> (by Sara Morais, June 24, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.</p>
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<h3>Request for Collaboration</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeDigital NativesTelecomAccessibilityInternet GovernanceDigital HumanitiesOpennessResearchers at Work2013-07-27T09:48:16ZPageଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଡିଜିଟାଲ ଅସୁବିଧା
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-language-paper-presented-at-second-national-language-seminar
<b>This paper was presented at the 2nd National Language Seminar by CIS-A2K Pogramme Officer Subhashish Panigrahi. In the paper, Panigrahi discusses about the hindrances of mass use of Odia language on the internet and how that is impacting in overall contribution of people in the language.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">He further elaborates on the major content repositories like <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org">Odia Wikipedia</a> that have the potential to drive the bandwagon of an old and rich language like Odia online which is otherwise ceased because of the lack of contribution. <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/odia-paper.doc" class="internal-link">Click to download the file</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">"ଭାଷାସବୁ ଭାଷାଙ୍କୁ ମାରନ୍ତିନି; ଭାଷାଭାଷୀମାନେ ମାରନ୍ତି' କହିଥିଲେ ଜଣାଶୁଣା ଭାଷାବିଦ ସାଲିକିକ ମୁଫଉଇନ । ଅନେକ ଡରନ୍ତି ଜଗତରେ ଆଜି ଜିଇଁଥିବା ୬,୭୦୦ଭାଷା ମରିମରି ଆଉ ଶହେବର୍ଷ ପରେ ୨୦୦ ହୋଇସାରିଥିବ । ଭାଷା ତଳେ ଭାଷାର ସମାଧି ଲଭିବାର ମୂକସାକ୍ଷୀ ନିକଟ ଅତୀତ । ଅନେକ ଭାଷା ରାଜଭାଷା, ରାଜନୈତିକ ପୃଷ୍ଠପୋଷକତା ପାଇଥିବା ଭାଷାର ମଙ୍ଗ ଧରିଥିବା ମୁଣ୍ଡିଆଳମାନଙ୍କ ଅଦଉତିରେ ମୁଣ୍ଡଟେକି ଭବିଷ୍ୟତର ଆଲୋକ ଦେଖିାରିନାହାନ୍ତି । ତେବେ ଅନେକ ଭାଷା ଅନାଦରରୁ, ରାଜନୀତିକ ଷଡ଼ଯନ୍ତ୍ର ଶିକାର ହୋଇ ଧୀରେ ଧୀରେ ସାଧାରଣ ବ୍ୟବହାରରୁ ହଜି ଯାଆନ୍ତି । ଶାସ୍ତ୍ରୀୟ ମାନ୍ୟତା ପାଇଲାଣି ଯେବେ ଆମକୁ ଆଉ କୂପମଣ୍ଡୁକ ହୋଇ ନିଜ ଦେଶ ଭିତରେ ବାନ୍ଧି ହୋଇ ରହିଲେ ଚଳିବ ନାହିଁ । ଆମ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ସ୍ଥିତି ଏବେ ଜଗତ ପୃଷ୍ଠଭୂମିରେ କେଉଁଠି ତା' ବିଚାରିବା ବେଳ ଆସିଲାଣି । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ପୁରୁଣାପଣ ଉପରେ ଆଉ କାହାର ସନ୍ଦେହ ନାହିଁ । ତେବେ ସନ୍ଦେହଟି ଆମ ଭାଷାର ବ୍ୟାବହାରିକ ଦିଗ ଉପରେ । ଭାଷାଟି ଲୋକତୁଣ୍ଡରେ ଯେତେ ଅଧିକ କଥିତ ହେବେ ତା' ଖାଦି ସେତେ ବଢ଼ିବ । ପୁଣି ସମାଜର ମୁଣ୍ଡିଆଳମାନେ ଯେବେ ସେ ଭାଷାକୁ ଶାସନ, ବଣିଜ ଆଉ ସବୁଠି ବ୍ୟବହାର କରିବେ ସେ ଭାଷା ସେତେ ବଳୁଆ ହେବ । ଆମ ପାଇଁ ସମାଜର ଉଚ୍ଚ ବର୍ଗର ଲୋକଙ୍କ ଦେଇ ଓଡ଼ିଆ କହାଯିବାଟି ଏକ ବଡ଼ ବାଧକ ହୋଇ ଠିଆ ହୋଇଛି । ଆମ ଚାରିପାଖେ ଅନେକ ଉଞ୍ଚା ଗଛ ହେଲେ ଆମେ ଯେ ଛାଇରେ ଏକଥା କହିବା ବାହୁଲ୍ୟ । ୫୦୦ରୁ ଅଧିକ ବର୍ଷକାଳ ଓଡ଼ିଶା ପରାଧୀନ ହୋଇ ନ ରହନ୍ତା କି ଆମ ଭାଷାର ଯଥେଷ୍ଟ ପରେ ଜନମିଥିବା ନୂଆ ଭାଷାମାନେ ଆମଠୁ ଅଧିକ ବଳୁଆ ହୋଇ ଆମ ଉପରେ ହାକିମାତି ନ ଦେଖାନ୍ତେ । ଏବେ ଓଡ଼ିଶା ଗରିବ ରାଜ୍ୟ ବୋଲି ଯେଉଁ ଅପପ୍ରଚାରଟି କରାଯାଇଛି ଦୀର୍ଘ କେତେ ବର୍ଷ ଧରି ତା' ସକାଶେ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ଭିତରେ ନାହିନଥିବା ହୀନମନ୍ୟତା । ଆଉ ବଲିଉଡ଼ ଭଳି ଅର୍ଥକାରୀ ମିଡ଼ିଆ ପ୍ରଭାବରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ମିଡ଼ିଆର ପ୍ରଭାବ ଜନମାନସରେ ଖୁବ କମ ପଡ଼େ । ଏକ କାଳେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସିନେମା ଯେଉଁ ବଲିଓଡ଼ ସହିତ ସମତାଳେ ଗତି କରୁଥିଲା ବୋଲି ଆମେ ଆଜି ସିନେମାକୁ ଛି ଛାକର କରୁ ସେ କେବଳ ପ୍ରହେଳିକା । ଯେଉଁମାନେ ହିନ୍ଦୀ ସିନେମା ତିଆରି କରୁଥିଲେ ତା'ର ପ୍ରଭାବ ସିଧାସଳଖ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଓ ବାକି ଭାଷା ଉପରେ ପଡ଼ୁଥିଲା । ଲୁଗା ପିନ୍ଧା ହେଉ କି ସଂଳାପ ସେସବୁରେ ଏକ କୃତ୍ରିମତା ବାରିପଡ଼େ । ତେବେ ଅନେକ ନିଆରା ଚିଜ ସେଥିରେ ଖଞ୍ଜାଥିଲା ଯାହା ଆଜି ଆଉ ନାହିଁ । ଆମ ମିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଏବେ ଖୁବ କମ ଭାଗ ଖାଣ୍ଟି ଓଡ଼ିଆପଣ ଅଛି, ବାକି ସବୁ ହିନ୍ଦୀ ଓ ଅନ୍ୟାନ୍ୟ ମିଡ଼ିଆରୁ ଚୋରାଯାଉଛି । ମିଡ଼ିଆର ବଡ଼ ଦେଖଣାହାରୀ ହେଲେ ଯୁବସମାଜ । ଏଇ କିଛି ବର୍ଷ ଭିତରେ ପ୍ରଚାର ଚାଲିଲା ଯେ ହିନ୍ଦୀ ଭାରତର ରାଷ୍ଟ୍ରଭାଷା ଆଉ ଏହା କହୁଥିବା ଲୋକେ ଆସି ଏବେ ୪୦ ଭାଗରେ ପହଞ୍ଚିଲେଣି । ଏ ମିଛ ପ୍ରହସନ ପାଇଁ ସରକାର କିଛି ପରିମାଣରେ ଦାୟୀ ଆଉ ବାକି ଶ୍ରେୟ ଲାଭଖୋର ବେପାରୀଙ୍କୁ ଯାଏ । ଏମାନେ ହେଲେ ମିଡ଼ିଆକୁ ନେଇ କୋଟି କୋଟି ଟଙ୍କାର ବେପାର କରୁଥିବା ବେପାରିଏ । ଏ ଦେଶେ ଇଂରାଜୀ ଭଳି ଏକ ଆନ୍ତର୍ଜାତୀୟ ସ୍ତରର ଖାଦିଥିବା ଭାଷାକୁ ଆମ ଜାତୀୟତାବାଦର ବିରୋଧୀ, ଉପନିବେଶବାଦର ସ୍ମାରକ କହି କେଇ ଶହ ବର୍ଷ ତଳେ ଆକ୍ରମଣକାରୀ ପାରସିକଙ୍କ ଭାଷାରୁ ତିଆରି ଏକ କୃତ୍ରିମ ଭାଷାକୁ ଲଦିଦିଆଗଲା ଭାରତର ରାଜଭାଷା କରି । ଏହାର ଶିକାର ଉଣାଅଧିକେ ସବୁ ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷା ତଥା ଆମ ପଡ଼ୋଶୀ ଦେଶର ଭାଷାଙ୍କ ଉପରେ ପଡ଼ିଛି । ତେଣୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପାଇଁ ପଇସା ଭାଷା ହେବା ଦୂରୁହ ହୋଇପଡ଼ିଛି । ଆମ ଭାଷା ଏବେ କେବଳ ସାହିତ୍ୟ ଭିତରେ ସୀମିତ ବୋଲି ମୋଟାମୋଟି କହିହେବ । ତେବେ ସବୁଠୁ ବଡ଼ ସମସ୍ୟା ଆସି ହେଲାଣି ପିଢ଼ି ଅସମତା, ଆମ ବୁଢ଼ାମାନେ କିଛି ପରିମାଣରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆକୁ ଧରି ରଖିଥିବା ବେଳେ ପିଲାଏ ଫିଙ୍ଗିବା ଆରମ୍ଭିଲେଣି । ଏଥିପାଇଁ ବଡ଼ମାନଙ୍କ ଭୂମିକା ଖୁବ ଅଧିକ । ପିଲାଙ୍କୁ ଇଂରାଜୀ ମିଡ଼ିଅମ ସ୍କୁଲରେ ଛାଡ଼ିଲେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଯେ ଅଛୁଆଁ ଏମିତି ଏକ ଧାରଣା ଦେବା ପ୍ରତି ଅଭିଭାବକ ପାଖେ ଦେଖିବାକୁ ମିଳେ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଟାଇପ କରିବା:</b></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">ମୋବାଇଲ, କମ୍ପୁଟର ଓ ଟାବଲେଟ ଆଦିରେ ସହଜେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଟାଇପ କରିହେବ । ତେବେ ଗୋଟିଏ କଥା ଜାଣିବାକୁ ପଡ଼ିବ ଯେ ଆକୃତି, ଶ୍ରୀଲିପି, ଲିପ-ଅଫିସ ଆଦି ବ୍ୟବହାର କରି ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଲେଖିଲେ କମ୍ପୁଟରରେ ସେ ଫଣ୍ଟସବୁ ଇନଷ୍ଟଲ ହୋଇଥିଲେ କେବଳ ଜଣେ ପଢ଼ିପାରିବ । ତେବେ ଏସବୁ ପୁରୁ୍ଣାକାଳିଆ ହୋଇଥିବାରୁ ସେଥିରେ ଇମେଲ, ଫେସବୁକ ବା ୱେବସାଇଟ କଲେ ବାକିମାନେ ପଢ଼ିପାରିବେ ନାହିଁ । ଏସବୁ ଫଣ୍ଟରେ ୱେବସାଇଟ କଲେ ଗୁଗୁଲ ସର୍ଚରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଆସିବ ନାହିଁ । ଅନେକ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଲେଖା ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଆକୃତି, ଶ୍ରୀଲିପି ଓ ସେ ଧରଣର ଲେଖାରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହୋଇଥିବାରୁ ସେସବୁ ପାଠକେ ଖୋଜି ପାଉନାହାନ୍ତି । ବାକି ଭାଷାରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହେଲେ ମଧ୍ୟ କେବଳ ଏହି କାରଣ ସକାଶେ ଗୁଗୁଲ ଏଯାଏ ତା' ସାଇଟରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ବିଭାଗଟି ଖୋଲିନାହିଁ । ତେଣୁ ଲେଖାଲେଖିକୁ ଅଧିକ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ପାଖେ ପହଞ୍ଚାଇବାର ସବୁଠୁ ବଡ଼ ବାଟ ହେଲା ଇଉନିକୋଡ଼ । ଏହା ଏକ ବିଶ୍ୱସ୍ତରର ମାନକ ଓ ଜଗତର ସବୁ ଭାଷା ଏହି ମାନକ ସକାଶେ ନିଜ ନିଜ ସହ ଯୋଡ଼ା । କମ୍ପୁଟରରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଟାଇପ କରିବା ସହଜ । Windows XP ସର୍ଭିସ ପ୍ୟାକ ୨ ପରେ ଆସିଥିବା ସବୁ ଅପରେଟିଂ ସିଷ୍ଟମରେ (XP service pack 3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 ଆଦି) ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଫଣ୍ଟ ଇନଷ୍ଟଲ ହୋଇ ଆସୁଛି । ତେଣୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପଢ଼ିବାରେ କୌଣସି ଅସୁବିଧା ହେବା କଥା ନୁହେଁ । ଇଉନିକୋଡ଼ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଟାଇପ କରିବା ପାଇଁ ମୋଜିଲା ଫାୟାରଫକ୍ସ ବ୍ରାଉଜରରେ http://bitly.com/odiafirefox ଏବଂ ଗୁଗୁଲ କ୍ରୋମ ବ୍ରାଉଜରରେ http://bitly.com/odiachrome ଖୋଲି ସେଠାରେ ଥିବା Addon ଡାଉନଲୋଡ଼ କରିପାରିବେ । ଏସୁବୁକୁ ପ୍ରଥମ ଥର ଇନଷ୍ଟଲ କଲାପରେ ଫେସବୁକ, ମେଲ ଆଦିରେ ଏକ ଫାଙ୍କା ସ୍ଥାନରେ କ୍ଲିକ କଲେ ଛୋଟ କିବୋର୍ଡ଼ ଛବିଟିଏ ଦିଶିବ । ସେ ଛବି ଉପରେ କ୍ଲିକ କରି ପ୍ରଥମେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଓ ପରେ "ଲେଖନୀ" କିମ୍ବା "ଫୋନେଟିକ" ବାଛି ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଟାଇପ କରିହେବ । ଆମେ ନିଜ ନାଁ ଯେମିତି ଇଂରାଜୀ ଅକ୍ଷରରେ ଲେଖୁଛୁ ଠିକ ସେହିଭଳି ଢଙ୍ଗରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଟାଇପ କରିହେବ । ଯଥା: "କାମ" ଲେଖିବା ପାଇଁ "kam", "ଆଚାର" ଲେଖିବା ପାଇଁ "achar" ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ଯଦି ଆଗରୁ ଆକୃତି, ଶ୍ରୀଲିପିରେ କିଛି ଲେଖା ଅଛି ତାକୁ ବ୍ଲଗ, ଇମେଲ, ଫେସବୁକ ଓ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ବାକି ଜାଗାରେ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରିବା ପାଇଁ ଇଉନିକୋଡ଼କୁ ବଦଳାଇବା ବାଟ ଆସିଲାଣି । ଆକୃତି ଲେଖା http://bitly.com/akrutiodia ଓ ଶ୍ରୀଲିପି ଲେଖା http://bitly.com/shreelipi ସାଇଟ ଖୋଲି ଇଉନିକୋଡ଼କୁ ବଦଳାଇ ହେବ । ନିଜ କମ୍ପୁଟରରେ ରାଇଟ କ୍ଲିକ କରି "Save as" ଅପସଙ୍କୁ ଯାଇ ଏ ଦୁଇଟିଯାକ କନଭର୍ଟର ନିଜ କମ୍ପୁଟର ଡେସ୍କଟପରେ ସାଇତିହେବ ଓ ପରେ ବିନା ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ମଧ୍ୟ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରିହେବ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ମୋବାଇଲରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଟାଇପ କରିହେବ କି ନାଁ ତା' ଜାଣିବାର ସହଜ ବାଟଟି ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ (or.wikipedia.org) ବା ଆଉ କୌଣସି ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାଇଟ ଖୋଲି ପରଖିପାରିବେ । ଯଦି ଏକ ମୋବାଇଲରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପଢ଼ିହେଉଛି ତାହେଲେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଟାଇପ କରିବା ମଧ୍ୟ ସମ୍ଭବ । ଆଣ୍ଡ୍ରଏଡ଼ ପାଇଁ http://bitly.com/indickeyboard ଏବଂ iOS ପାଇଁ http://bitly.com/odiaios ବ୍ୟବହାର କରି ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଟାଇପ କରିପାରିବେ ଓ ଫେସବୁକ, ଟୁଇଟର, ଇମେଲ ଆଦିରେ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରିପାରିବେ । ତେବେ ଉଇଣ୍ଡୋଜ ଏବଂ ବ୍ଲାକବେରି ଆଦି ମୋବାଇଲରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଟାଇପିଂ ସୁବିଧା ଏଯାଏ ଆସିନାହିଁ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:</b></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">ଅନେକେ ଜାଣନ୍ତି ନାହିଁ ଯେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆଟିଏ ଅଛି ବୋଲି । ୨୦୦୨ ମସିହାରେ ପ୍ରଥମ ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷାର ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଭାବେ ପଞ୍ଜାବୀ, ଅହମିୟା ଓ ମାଳାୟାଳାମ ସହ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହୋଇଥିଲା । or.wikipedia.org ରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ୮୬୦୦ରୁ ଅଧିକ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗରେ ଭରା । ପାଖାପାଖି ୧୫ ଜଣ ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀ ସମ୍ପାଦକ ଏଥିରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ବିଷୟରେ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ (ଏନସାଇକ୍ଲୋପିଡ଼ିକ) ଲେଖାମାନ ଲେଖୁଛନ୍ତି । ତେବେ ୨୦୦୨ରୁ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହେଲେ ହେଁ ପାଖାପାଖି ୯ ବର୍ଷ ଧରି ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପଟି ସକ୍ରିୟ ସପାଦକଙ୍କ ଅଭାବେ ନିଶ୍ଚଳ ହୋଇ ପଡ଼ିରହିଥିଲା ଏବଂ ୨୦୧୧ ପରେ ଏଥିରେ ସକ୍ରିୟ ସମ୍ପାଦନା ଆରମ୍ଭ ହୋଇଛି । ମଜାର କଥା ହେଲା ଏଥିରେ ସଭିଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ସମ୍ପାଦନାର ସୁବିଧା ରହିଛି ଓ ଏକ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗକୁ ବହୁ ସମ୍ପାଦକ ମିଶି ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରିଥାନ୍ତି । ତେବେ ନିଜ ମନଗଢ଼ା ବିଷୟ ନ ଲେଖି ଆଗରୁ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠିତ ଖବରକାଗଜ ଓ ପତ୍ରପତ୍ରିକାରେ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ ପ୍ରବନ୍ଧ ଆଦି ଲେଖା ଆଧାରରେ ଏଥିରେ ଲେଖିବା ନିୟମ । ଏଣୁ ଗପ, କବିତା ଭଳି ସୃଜନାତ୍ମକ ସାହିତ୍ୟ ଏଥିରେ ରହିପାରିବ ନାହିଁ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାର: ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଡିଜିଟାଲ ଲାଇବ୍ରେରି</b></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">ପୁରୁଣା ବହିକୁ ଡିଜିଟାଲ ମିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଆଣିବା ପାଇଁ ଏକ ନୂଆ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାର । ଏହି ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପଟି or.wikisource.org ରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ । ଏଥିରେ ଆଗରୁ ସ୍କାନ ହୋଇଥିବା ବହିଗୁଡ଼ିକ ଆଥରେ ଇଉନିକୋଡ଼କୁ ରୂପାନ୍ତର କରାଯାଉଛି । ଅନେକେ ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାରେ ଅନେକ ଉପାଦେୟ ପୁରୁଣା ବହିର ଲେଖା ଆଉଥରେ ଟାଇପ କରୁଛନ୍ତି । ଫଳରେ ସେ ବହିର ଲେଖାସବୁ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଖୋଜିଲେ ମିଳିବ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ଏମିତି ଅନେକ କାମ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ହୋଇସାରିଲାଣି । କିନ୍ତୁ ଆଜି ବି ଆହୁରି ପର୍ବତ ପ୍ରମାଣ କାମ ହେବାକୁ ବାକି । ବ୍ୟକ୍ତିଗତ ମାଲିକାନାରେ ଥିବା ଅନେକ ପୋଥି ଧୀରେ ଧୀରେ ସିନ୍ଦୁରବୋଳା ହୋଇ ଉଇଖିଆ ହୋଇ ଧୀରେ ଧୀରେ ନଷ୍ଟ ହୋଇଯାଉଛନ୍ତି । ଏଭଳି ପୋଥି ପାଠକଙ୍କ ପାଖରେ ଥିଲେ ଲେଖକ ତାହାର ଡିଜିଟାଲ ରୂପ ପାଇଁ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରିବାକୁ ଆଗ୍ରହୀ । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଓଡ଼ିଶା ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧିତ ଅନେକ ଲେଖା ପାଠକମାନେ ତିଆରି କରି ଜଗତର କୋଣ ଅନୁକୋଣରେ ଥିବା ଓଡ଼ିଆଙ୍କୁ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ବିଷୟରେ ଅବଗତ କରାଇପାରିବେ । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାରରେ ପୁରୁଣା ବହି, ପାଣ୍ଡୁଲିପି ଓ ପୋଥିର ଡିଜିଟାଲ ରୂପ ପାଇଁ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଟାଇପ କରିବାରେ ପାଠକେ ଅଳପ ଅଳପ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କଲେ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରୁ ଅନେକେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପୁରାତନ ରଚନା ବାବଦରେ ଜାଣିବାକୁ ପାଇବେ । ଅଧିକରୁ ଅଧିକ ଲୋକ ବ୍ଲଗ, ଫେସବୁକ ଆଦିରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଟାଇପ କରି କିମ୍ବା ଆକୃତି/ଶ୍ରୀଲିପି ଆଦିରେ ଆଗରୁ ଟାଇପ ହୋଇଥିବା ଲେଖା ବିତରଣ କଲେ ଧୀରେ ଧୀରେ ଅଧିକ ଲୋକ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପଢ଼ିବାକୁ ପାଇବେ । ଧୀରେ ଧୀରେ ଲୋକେ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରୁ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ବିଷୟ ଜାଣୁଥିବାରୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ଲେଖା ରହିଲେ ଯାଇ ଲୋକେ ପଢ଼ିବେ ଓ ନିଜେ ଲେଖିବେ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ଲେଖକ ପରିଚୟ: ଶୁଭାଶିଷ ପାଣିଗ୍ରାହୀ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ତଥା ଅନ୍ୟାନ୍ୟ ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷାର ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ବ୍ୟବହାର ଉପରେ କାମକରୁଥିବା ଜଣେ ଶିକ୍ଷା-ଗବେଷକ । ଭାଷାର ବ୍ୟାବହାରିକ ଭୂମିରେ ତାଙ୍କର ବିଚରଣ ଓ ଆଧୁନିକ କାରିଗରି ଦ୍ୱାରା ପୁରାତନ ଭାଷାର ବିକାଶ-ଚାରା ରୋପଣ ତାହାଙ୍କ କାମ । ସେ ଅଧୁନା ବେଙ୍ଗାଳୁରୁର ସେଣ୍ଟର ଫର ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଏଣ୍ଡ ସୋସାଇଟିର ଆକ୍ସେସ ଟୁ ନଲେଜ ପ୍ରୋଗ୍ରାମରେ ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷାରେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆମାନଙ୍କର ବିକାଶ ଲାଗି କାର୍ଯ୍ୟରତ । ଭାଷା ଓ ସଂସ୍କୃତିର ବିକାଶରେ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟର ଭୂମିକା ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧରେ ତାଙ୍କର ପ୍ରବନ୍ଧମାନ ଅନେକ ଖବରକାଗଜ ଓ ବିଶ୍ୱସ୍ତରୀୟ ବ୍ଲଗରେ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ । ସେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ତଥା ଅନେକ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧିତ ବିଶ୍ୱସ୍ତରର ସମୂହର ଏବଂ ମୋଜିଲା ଲୋକାଲାଜେସସନର ସଭ୍ୟ, ଗ୍ଲୋବାଲ</p>
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No publishersubhaOpennessOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-05-27T15:22:31ZBlog Entryକେତେ ମାଗଣା ଫେସବୁକର ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ?
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b15b47b24b47-b2eb3eb17b23b3e-b2bb47b38b2cb41b15b30-b2bb4db30b3f-b2cb47b38b3fb15b4db38
<b>This opinion piece in Odia on Facebook's Free Basics App was published in Odisha.com. The post highlights several user security and privacy that Free Basics is violating apart from violating net neutrality. It also brings the parallel of Airtel Zero and Free Basics with the Grameenphone project by Mozilla in Bangladesh and the worldwide Wikipedia Zero projects.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Read the original article published in Odisha.com <a class="external-link" href="http://www.odisha.com/archives/23402">here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">ଗତ ଦୁଇ ସପ୍ତାହ ସାରା ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ନିଆଁ ଲାଗିଛି । ସାରା ଦେଶରୁ ଲୋକେ ନିଆଁରେ ପତଙ୍ଗ ଝାସ ଦେଲା ଭଳି ଫେସବୁକର ନୂଆ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ (Free Basics) ବିରୋଧରେ ଭିନ୍ନ ଭିନ୍ନ ଧରଣର ମତ ଦେଇଚାଲିଛନ୍ତି।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ପ୍ରଧାନମନ୍ତ୍ରୀ ମୋଦିଙ୍କ ଆମେରିକା ଗସ୍ତ କାଳରେ ସେଠାରେ ଜୁକରବର୍ଗଙ୍କ ସାଙ୍ଗେ ଭେଟି ଫେସବୁକର ମିଳିତ ସହଯୋଗରେ ଭାରତରେ ସାଧାରଣ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିତରଣ ଓ ସୂଚନା ପହଞ୍ଚାଇବା ବାବଦରେ ଆଲୋଚନ କରିଥିଲେ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଫେସବୁକ ଏହାକୁ ଭାରତରେ ନିଜର ଚେର ମୋଟା କରିବାର ଏକ ସୁଯୋଗ ଭାବେ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରିବାକୁ ଉଦ୍ୟମ କଲା । ଫେସବୁକର ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାତା ମାର୍କ ଜୁକରବର୍ଗ ଏହି ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ ସମ୍ପର୍କରେ ଘୋଷଣା କରିବାର ଦୁଇ ସପ୍ତାହ ନ ପୁରୁଣୁ ଟେଲିକମ ରେଗୁଲେଟରି ଅଥରିଟି ଅଫ ଇଣ୍ଡିଆ (ଟ୍ରାଇ) ପାଖରେ ସାଢ଼େ ଚାରି ଲକ୍ଷ ପାଖାପାଖି ଇମେଲ ଏହାକୁ ରୋକିବା ଲାଗି ପହଞ୍ଚି ସାରିଲାଣି ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଜନନେତା ଓ ଇନଫୋସିସର ସହ ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାତା ନନ୍ଦନ ନୀଳକେଣିଙ୍କ ଠାରୁ ଆରମ୍ଭ କରି ମିଡ଼ିଆନାମାର ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାତା ନିଖିଳ ପାଉଆ, ଭେଞ୍ଚର କ୍ୟାପିଟାଲିଷ୍ଟ ମହେଶ ମୂର୍ତ୍ତି, ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଆକ୍ଟିଭିଷ୍ଟ ସୁନୀଳ ଆବ୍ରାହାମ, ପ୍ରଣେଶ ପ୍ରକାଶଙ୍କ ଯାଏ ସଭିଏଁ ଏହା ପଛରେ ଫେସବୁକ ଲାଭକାରୀ ମନୋଭାବ ନିହିତ ଅଛି ବୋଲି ଦର୍ଶାଇ ଏହି ଉଦ୍ୟମକୁ କଡ଼ା ନିନ୍ଦା କରିଛନ୍ତି।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ତେବେ କଣ ଏ ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ? କାହିଁକି ଏତେ ବିବାଦ ?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଫେସବୁକ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରୁଥିବା ଉଣାଅଧିକେ ସଭିଏଁ ଜାଣୁଥିବେ ସେ କେଡ଼େ ଅଠାକାଠି! ଫେସବୁକର ପ୍ରାୟ ବ୍ୟବହାକାରୀ ହେଲେ ଯୁବବର୍ଗର । ତେବେ ଅନ୍ୟ ବଯସର ଲୋକେ ମଧ୍ୟ ଫେସବୁକ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରିଥାନ୍ତି । ଖୁବ କମ ସମୟରେ ଅଧିକ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ସଙ୍ଗେ ମିଶିବା, ଗପିବା ଆଦି ସୁବିଧା ପାଇବା ଯୋଗୁଁ ଅନେକେ ଫେସବୁକ ପ୍ରେମରେ ପଡ଼ିଯାଆନ୍ତି ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ସରଳ ଭାଷାରେ କହିଲେ ଫେସବୁକ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ଏକ ହାଟ ବଜାର । ଲୋକେ ସେଠି କିଛି ସମୟ କାଟିବା ପାଇଁ, ଚିହ୍ନା-ଅଚିହ୍ନା ଲୋକଙ୍କ ସହ ମିଶିବା ପାଇଁ, ଆଳାପ-ଆଲୋଚନା ପାଇଁ ଏକାଠି ହୁଅନ୍ତି । ଅଧିକାଂଶ ଆଲୋଚନା କେବଳ ମଜା ମଉଜ ପାଇଁ ହେଲା ବେଳେ କିଛି ଉପଯୋଗୀ ଆଲୋଚନା ମଧ୍ୟ ହୋଇଥାଏ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଫେସବୁକ ଏକ ବିଶାଳ ଲାଭକାରୀ କମ୍ପାନି । ଏହାର ଆଉ ଏକ ସହ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ହେଲା ହୁଆଟ୍ସ ଅପ । ଏହା ଅନଲାଇନ ଚାଟିଂ ପାଇଁ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରାଯାଏ । ଫଟୋ ଭିଡ଼ିଓରୁ ଆରମ୍ଭ କରି ସାଧାରଣ ଚାଟିଂ ନିମନ୍ତେ ଏହା ଖୁବ ଜଣା । ନିକଟରେ ଫେସବୁକ internet.org ନାମକ ଏକ ସହ-ସଙ୍ଗଠନ ଆରମ୍ଭ କରିଛି ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ ହେଲା ଏ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଡଟ ଅର୍ଗ ଅଧୀନରେ ଏକ ଯୋଜନା । ତେବେ ଫେସବୁକ ଓ ଫେସବୁକର ସହ-ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପସବୁକୁ ଅଭାବୀ ଦେଶମାନଙ୍କରେ ଅଧିକ ଲୋକପ୍ରିୟ କରିବା ଲାଗି ସେସବୁକୁ ବିନାମୂଲ୍ୟରେ ପହଞ୍ଚାଇବା ପାଇଁ ଏ ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ । ଭାରତ ସମେତ ଜଗତର ୩୦ଟି ଦେଶରେ ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ ଜରିଆରେ ମାଗଣା ସୀମିତ ଫେସବୁକ ସୁବିଧା ଦେବା ଏହାର ଉଦ୍ଦେଶ୍ୟ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ ଜରିଆରେ ଆଉ କିଛି ମାଗଣା ୱେବସାଇଟ ମଧ୍ୟ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହେବ । ତେବେ ଏଠାରେ ଅନେକ ପ୍ରଶ୍ନ ମନରେ ଉଙ୍କିମାରେ? ଏ ମାଗଣା ୱେବସାଇଟସବୁ ବ୍ୟବହାର ପାଇଁ ଲୋଡ଼ା କି ନାଁ ତା’ର ସିଦ୍ଧାନ୍ତ କିଏ ନେବ, ଫେସବୁକ ନାଁ ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ ?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ ଅଧୁନା କିଛି ଦେଶରେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହୋଇଥିବା ବେଳେ ଫିଲିପାଇନ୍ସରେ ରହୁଥିବା ଜଣେ ଭାରତୀୟ ଜିତେଶ ଗୋସ୍ୱାମୀ ନିକଟରେ ନିଜେ ନିଜ ମୋବାଇଲରେ ସେଠାର ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ ଇନଷ୍ଟଲ କରି ଯାହା ମତ ଦେଇଛନ୍ତି ତା’ ଭାରୀ ଚିନ୍ତାର ବିଷୟ । ସାଧାରଣ ଫେସବୁକର ଅଧାରୁ ଅଧିକ ସୁବିଧା ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସରେ ନାହିଁ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଏଥିରେ ଫେସବୁକ ବାହାରେ ଥିବା ଭିଡ଼ିଓ ମାଗଣାରେ ଦେଖିହେବନି କି ଖବର ଆଦି ସମ୍ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ପଢ଼ିହେବନି । ପୁଣି ମାଗଣାରେ ମିଳିବାକୁ ଥିବା ବାକି ୱେବସାଇଟସବୁ ବାଛିବାରେ ଫେସବୁକର ଏକଚାଟିଆ ଅଧିକାର ରହିବ । ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ କଣ ଚାହାନ୍ତି ନ ଚାହାନ୍ତି ତାହା ଫେସବୁକ ନିର୍ଣ୍ଣୟ କରିବ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଆଉ ଗରୀବ ମାଇପ ସବୁରି ଶାଳୀ ନ୍ୟାୟରେ ଗରୀବଙ୍କୁ ମାଗଣା ତିଅଣର ସୁଆଦ ଚଖାଇ ଫେସବୁକ ସେମାନଙ୍କୁ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଯୋଗାଇବା ଆଳରେ କେବଳ ଫେସବୁକର ପରିଧି ଭିତରେ ବାନ୍ଧି ରଖିବ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଫେସବୁକ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ Mozilla ଭଳି ଖୋଲା ସଫ୍ଟଓଏର ବ୍ୟବହାର କରେନାହିଁ କି ଲୋକଙ୍କ ଉଦ୍ୟମରେ ତିଆରି ନୁହେଁ । ଏହା ସମ୍ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ଭାବେ ଏକ ଲାଭକାରୀ କମ୍ପାନି । ତେଣୁ ଫେସବୁକର ସବୁ କାମ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ସ୍ୱାର୍ଥ ନୁହେଁ ବରଂ ନିଜ ସ୍ୱାର୍ଥ ହାସଲ ପାଇଁ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଅଭାବୀ ଦେଶର ଲୋକଙ୍କ ମନ ଜିଣିବା ପାଇଁ ଓ ନିଜର ବ୍ୟବହାର କାରୀଙ୍କ ସଂଖ୍ୟା ବଢ଼ାଇବା ପାଇଁ ଏହା ଫେସବୁକର ଏକ ମସୁଧା ବୋଲି ଅନେକ ଚିନ୍ତାଶୀଳ ଲୋକେ ମତ ଦେଇଛନ୍ତି । ଫେସବୁକର ଏହି ଏକ ଚାଟିଆ କାମ ନେଟ ନିଉଟ୍ରାଲିଟି ବା ନେଟ ସମାନତାର ପକ୍ଷପାତୀ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ପକ୍ଷପାତ ନ କରି ସବୁ ୱେବସାଇଟକୁ ସମାନ ଭାବେ ଗଣିବା ନେଟ ସମାନତା ନାମରେ ଜଣା । ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସରେ ଥିବା ନାନାଦି ଭୁଲ ବିଷୟକୁ ଭଲ ଭାବେ ତନଖି କରିବା ପାଇଁ ନିକଟରେ ଟେଲିକମ ରେଗୁଲେଟରି ଅଥରିଟି ଅଫ ଇଣ୍ଡିଆ (ଟ୍ରାଇ) ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସକୁ କିଛି ସମୟ ପାଇଁ ବାସନ୍ଦ କରିଛି ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଚତୁର ଫେସବୁକ କେବେ ଚାଷୀମାନଙ୍କୁ ପାଣିପାଗ ଜାଣିବାରେ ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରିବ ତ କେବେ ଅଭାବୀ ଭାରତୀୟଙ୍କୁ ପରସ୍ପର ସହ ଯୋଡ଼ିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରିବ ବୋଲି ଦେଶସାରା ସହର ବଜାର ସବୁଠି ଜୋରଦାର ପ୍ରଚାର ଚଳାଇଥିଲା ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ସବୁ ଖବରକାଗଜରେ ପୂରା ଫର୍ଦ ବିଜ୍ଞାପନ ଆଉ ସବୁ ବସ ରହିବା ସ୍ଥାନରେ ବଡ଼ ବଡ଼ ହୋର୍ଡ଼ିଂ । ଆଉ ଏଥିରେ ସଭିଙ୍କୁ ଅନୁରୋଧ ଥିଲା ଏକ ନମ୍ବରକୁ ମିସ କଲ ଦେଇ ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସକୁ ସମର୍ଥନ କରିବା ପାଇଁ । ଏ ପ୍ରଚାର ପ୍ରସାରରେ ୧୦୦ କୋଟିରୁ ଅଧିକ ବୋଧେ ଖର୍ଚ୍ଚ ହୋଇଥିବ! କେଉଁଠୁ ଆଦାୟ ହେବ ଏ ପଇସା? ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସର ମାଗଣା ଫେସବୁକ ଓ ବାକି ୱେବସାଇଟକୁ ସୁବିଧା ଦେବାର ଏ ଆଳ ବିରୋଧରେ ଝଡ଼ ଉଠିଛି ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Savetheinternet.in ନାମରେ ଏକ ୱେବସାଇଟ ତିଆରି କରି ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ସମାନତା ପାଇଁ ଲଢ଼ୁଥିବା କର୍ମୀଏ ଏକରକମ ଆନ୍ଦୋଳନ ଆରମ୍ଭ କରିଛନ୍ତି ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଫେସବୁକର ମିସ କଲ ଅଭିଯାନର କଡ଼ା ଜବାବ ଦେବାପାଇଁ Savetheinternet.in ଓ fsmi.in ନାମକ ଦୁଇଟି ୱେବସାଇଟ ପକ୍ଷରୁ ଜନସାଧାରଣଙ୍କୁ ସଚେତନ କରାଯାଇ ଟ୍ରାଇ ପାଖକୁ ଇମେଲ ପଠାଇବା ଅନୁରୋଧ କରାଯାଇଥିଲା । ଫେସବୁକର କୋଟି କୋଟି ଟଙ୍କା ଖର୍ଚର ମିସ କଲ ଅଭିଯାନରୁ ୧୦ ଲକ୍ଷ ସମର୍ଥନ ମିଳିଥିବା ବେଳେ ବିନା ପଇସାରେ ସାଢ଼େ ଚାରି ଲକ୍ଷରୁ ଅଧିକ ଲୋକ ଇମେଲ ଜରିଆରେ ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସକୁ ବିରୋଧ କରି ଟ୍ରାଇକୁ ଇମେଲ କରିଛନ୍ତି ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ତେବେ ଫେସବୁକର ଏହି ସମର୍ଥନ ସଂଗ୍ରହକୁ ଟ୍ରାଇର ସଭାପତି ଆରଏସ ଶର୍ମା ଘୋର ନିନ୍ଦା କରି କହିଛନ୍ତି ଏଯାବତ ଫେସବୁକ ଯେଉଁ ୧୪ ଲକ୍ଷ ଲୋକଙ୍କୁ ପ୍ରଭାବିତ କରି ସେମାନଙ୍କୁ ମିସ କଲ ଜରିଆରେ ସମର୍ଥନ ଆଣିଛି ତା’ ମୂଲ୍ୟହୀନ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">୧୦୦ କୋଟି ଟଙ୍କାର କି ଅପଚୟ! ସେତିକି ପଇସାରେ ଶହେ ହଜାର ଲୋକଙ୍କ ମାଗଣାରେ କିଛି ଉପଯୋଗୀ ସାଇଟ ଦେଖିବା ସୁଯୋଗ ଦେଇଥିଲେ ଆହୁରି ଭଲ ହୋଇଥାନ୍ତା ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସରେ ଲୁଚି ରହିଥିବା ସବୁଠୁ ବଡ଼ ବିପଦଟି ହେଲା ଫେସବୁକର ତଥ୍ୟ ସଂଗ୍ରହ କାରସାଦି । ବ୍ୟବହାର୍ରକାରୀ କି କି ସାଇଟ ଦେଖିଲେ, କାହା ସଙ୍ଗେ ଗପିଲେ ସେସବୁ ଏହା ତାଙ୍କ ଅଗୋଚରେ ଟିକିନିଖି କରି ହିସାବ ରଖିଥାଏ । ସଳଖେ କହିଲେ ଫେସବୁକରେ ବ୍ୟବହାର କାରୀ ବାପୁଡ଼ାର ବ୍ୟକ୍ତିଗତ ବୋଲି କିଛି ରହିବ ନାହିଁ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଫେସବୁକ ଆରମ୍ଭରୁ ଶବ୍ଦସମ୍ଭାରରେ ଭରା ଏକ ଲମ୍ବା ବିବରଣୀରେ ତଥ୍ୟ ସଂଗ୍ରହରେ ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀଙ୍କ କୌଣସି ଅଭିଯୋଗ ନାହିଁ ବୋଲି ଖୁବ ଚତୁର ଭାବେ ତାଙ୍କଠୁ ଅନୁମତି ନେଇଯାଏ । ଅନଭିଜ୍ଞ ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ ପାଠ ଘର ଯାହା ସେଥିରେ ସେ ଏ ଫିକର ବୁଝିବ ବା କିପରି?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଓକିଲ ଇବେନ ମଗଲେନ ଓ ମିସି ଚୌଧୁରୀ ଏକ ଲେଖାରେ ଦୁହେଁ ତନ୍ନ ତନ୍ନ କରି ବିଶ୍ଳେଷଣ କରିଛନ୍ତି ଏ କଥା । ପ୍ରଶ୍ନ ଉଠେ ଯେ ଫେସବୁକ ଧନୀ ଦେଶରେ ଏଭଳି ବେପରୁଆ ଅପସାହସ କରିବକି?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଏହି ଭଳି ଆଉ ଏକ କୁଟିଳ ବିଷୟ ଥିଲା ଏଆରଟେଲ ଜିରୋ । ଏଆରଟେଲ ଜିରୋ ଆଉ ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ ଭିତରେ ବଡ଼ ସମାନତା ହେଉଛି ଉଭୟ କମ୍ପାନି କିଛି ୱେବସାଇଟଙ୍କଠାରୁ ବିପୁଳ ପରିମାଣରେ ପଇସା ନେଇ ସେ ୱେବସାଇଟସବୁକୁ ବ୍ୟବହାର କାରୀଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ମାଗଣାରେ ଯୋଗାଇଥାନ୍ତି ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଏଥିରେ ସେବା ଯୋଗାଣକାରୀ ଓ ମାଗଣାରେ ବ୍ୟବହାର କାରୀଙ୍କ ପାଖେ ପହଞ୍ଚୁଥିବା ୱେବସାଇଟସବୁଙ୍କ ସିଧାସଳଖ ସ୍ୱାର୍ଥ ନିହିତ ଥାଏ । ପାଠକଙ୍କୁ ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିତରଣ କରିବାର ତୁଚ୍ଛା ବିଜ୍ଞାପନ ତଳେ ଯେ ଏତେ ଫନ୍ଦି ରହିଛି ତାହା ପାଠକ ବାପୁଡ଼ା ବା ଜାଣିବ କେମନ୍ତେ? ଆଉ ଧନୀ ଦେଶରେ ଏଭଳି ଫିକର ସହଜେ ଧରାପଡ଼ିବ ବୋଲି ଫେସବୁକ ଭଳି କମ୍ପାନି ୩୦ଟି ଅଭାବୀ ଦେଶକୁ ଥୋପ କରିଛି ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ତେବେ ମାଗଣାରେ କିଛି ୱେବସାଇଟ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ କରାଇବା କିଛି ନୂଆ ନୁହେଁ । ଅତୀତରେ ବଙ୍ଗଳାଦେଶରେ Mozilla (ଫାୟାରଫକ୍ସ ଭଳି ନାନାଦି ଖୋଲା ସଫ୍ଟଓଏର ପରିଚାଳନା କରୁଥିବା ସଙ୍ଗଠନ) ଗ୍ରାମୀଣଫୋନ ନାମକ ଯୋଜନା ଜରିଆରେ ୫ ଲକ୍ଷରୁ ଅଧିକ ଲୋକଙ୍କୁ ଦିନକୁ ୨୦ MBର ଡାଟା ଦେବା ସାରା ଜଗତରେ ଆଲୋଚନା ବିଷୟ ହୋଇଥିଲା ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ମୋଜିଲା ଓ ମୋବାଇଲ ସେବା ଯୋଗାଣକାରୀ ଟେଲିନର ଏଥି ପାଇଁ ପ୍ରଶଂସାର ପାତ୍ର ହୋଇଥିଲେ । ଅନେକ ଦେଶରେ ସାଧାରଣ ଲୋକେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ବିଷୟରେ ଜାଣିବାକୁ ପାଉନଥିବାରୁ ଏସଏସମେସ ଓ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଯୋଗେ ସାଧାରଣ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ଦ୍ୱାରା ସମ୍ପାଦିତ ଅନଲାଇନ ଜ୍ଞାନକୋଷ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ, ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଜିରୋ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ଜରିଆରେ ମାଗଣାରେ ଯୋଗାଇଦିଆଯାଉଛି ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଭାରତରେ ମଧ୍ୟ ପରୀକ୍ଷାମୂଳକ ଭାବେ କିଛି ସ୍ଥାନରେ ଏହି ସୁବିଧା ଦିଆଯାଇଛି । ତେବେ ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିତରଣ ପାଇଁ ଏହି ଭଳି ଉଦ୍ୟମ ସବୁରି ଆଦର ପାଆନ୍ତି । କିନ୍ତୁ ନିଜ ସ୍ୱାର୍ଥ ହାସଲ ନିମନ୍ତେ ଜଗତର ହିତ ନାମରେ ଗରୀବଙ୍କ ଗରିବୀକୁ ଥୋପ କରି ଫେସବୁକର ଫ୍ରି ବେସିକ୍ସ କେବଳ ନିନ୍ଦା ପାଇଛି । ଲୋକଙ୍କ ସମର୍ଥନ ପାଇବାକୁ ହେଲେ କିଛି ପରିମାଣରେ ସଚ୍ଚା ହେବାକୁ ଯେ ପଡ଼ିବ ଏ କଥାଟି ଫେସବୁକ ଏବେଠୁ ହେଜିଲେ ଆଗକୁ ମଙ୍ଗଳ ହେବ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଲେଖକ ପରିଚୟ:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଶୁଭାଶିଷ ପାଣିଗ୍ରାହୀ ବେଙ୍ଗାଳୁରର ସେଣ୍ଟର ଫର ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଆଣ୍ଡ ସୋସାଇଟିରେ ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷାରେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଓ ଉଇକିମିଡ଼ିଆ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ତଥା ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀ ସମୂହର ବିକାଶ ନିମନ୍ତେ ବିଗତ କିଛି ବର୍ଷ ଧରି କାମ କରୁଛନ୍ତି ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଆଗରୁ ଇଂରାଜୀ ସମେତ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଦକ୍ଷିଣ ଏସୀୟ ଭାଷାରେ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ବିକାଶ ପାଇଁ ସେ ଉଇକିମିଡ଼ିଆ ଫାଉଣ୍ଡେସନରେ ସକ୍ରିୟ ଥିଲେ । ଉଇକିମାନିଆ ହଂକଂ, ଲଣ୍ଡନ ଓ ମେକ୍ସିକୋ ସିଟି, ଓପନ ନଲେଜ ଡେ ବର୍ଲିନ, ଗ୍ଲୋବାଲ ଭଏସେସ ସମିଟ ଫିଲିପାଇନ୍ସ ଆଦି ଦେଶବିଦେଶରେ ଭାଷାର କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟରୀକରଣ ଓ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଟେକନୋଲୋଜି ବିକାଶ ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧରେ ସେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ସମ୍ମିଳନୀରେ ନିଜର ବକ୍ତବ୍ୟ ପ୍ରଦାନ କରିଛନ୍ତି ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ଦୀର୍ଘ ଦିନ ଧରି ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ସହିତ ମୋଜିଲା, ଓପନ ଗ୍ଲାମ, ଗ୍ଲୋବାଲ ଭଏସେସ, ଓପନସୋର୍ସ ଡଟ କମ ଆଦି ବିଶ୍ୱସ୍ତରୀୟ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ସହ ସକ୍ରିୟ ଭାବେ ଜଡ଼ିତ । ଜଣେ ନିୟମିତ ସ୍ତମ୍ଭକାର ଭାବେ ସେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଓ ଇଂରାଜୀ ଖବରକାଗଜ, ବ୍ଲଗ ଆଦିରେ ଓ ନିଜ ବ୍ଲଗ http://psubhashish.comରେ ନିଜର ନିବନ୍ଧ ଲେଖନ୍ତି ।ଟୁଇଟରରେ ଶୁଭାଶିଷଙ୍କ ସହ @subhapa ରେ ଯୋଗାଯୋଗ କରିହେବ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ସେଣ୍ଟର ଫର ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ଆଣ୍ଡ ସୋସାଇଟି, ବେଙ୍ଗାଳୁର<br /> psubhashish@gmail.com</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b15b47b24b47-b2eb3eb17b23b3e-b2bb47b38b2cb41b15b30-b2bb4db30b3f-b2cb47b38b3fb15b4db38'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/b15b47b24b47-b2eb3eb17b23b3e-b2bb47b38b2cb41b15b30-b2bb4db30b3f-b2cb47b38b3fb15b4db38</a>
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https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/subhashish-panigrahi-october-13-2014-editorial-in-samaja
<b>I authored an editorial in today's Samaja (Odia daily). It talks about the hurdles Odia language has been facing and potential aspects of the language including it being used massively on the Internet in Wikipedia and other platforms.
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Click to read the article published in the Samaja on October 13, 2014 <a class="external-link" href="http://samajaepaper.com/epaper/pdf/2014/10/13/20141013a_006100006.jpg">here</a>. <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/editorial-samaja.pdf" class="external-link">Click to download</a> the file (PDF).</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ଶାସ୍ତ୍ରୀୟ ମାନ୍ୟତା ପାଇବା ପରେ ସଭା ସମିତି ମାଧ୍ୟମରେ ଗୋଟିଏ କଥା "ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସଂସ୍କୃତରୁ ଆହରିତ ନୁହେଁ, ବରଂ ନିଜେ ସ୍ୱୟଂସମ୍ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ଏକ ଭାଷା ଯାହାର ପାଖାପାଖି ପାଞ୍ଚହଜାର ବର୍ଷର ଇତିହାସ ରହିଛି'ଜନମାନସରେ ବାରମ୍ବାର ବିମ୍ବିତ ହୋଇଛି । ଏହା ଅନେକ ଓଡ଼ିଆଙ୍କୁ ନିଜ ଭାଷା ବାବଦରେ ଖାଲି ସଚେତନ କରିନାହିଁ, ବରଂ କେଇ ଶହ ବର୍ଷର ବିଦେଶୀ ଶାସନ ଓ ତା' ପରର ଭୁଶୁଡ଼ି ପଡ଼ିଥିବା ଏକ ସାମାଜିକ ଅବସ୍ଥା ଭିତରେ, ଢୋକେ ପିଇ ଦଣ୍ଡେ ଜିଇ ଆଗକୁ ଆଗେଇଥିବା ଏକ ଜାତିକୁ ଆତ୍ମଗୌରବ ଦେଇଛି । ୧୯୩୬ରେ ଭାଷା ଭିତ୍ତିରେ ଓଡ଼ିଶା ପ୍ରଦେଶ ଗଢ଼ାହେବାବେଳେ ଓଡ଼ିଆଙ୍କ ମଞ୍ଜ ଯେଉଁ ଦମ୍ଭିଲା ହୋଇଥିଲା, ଶାସ୍ତ୍ରୀୟ ମାନ୍ୟତା ମିଳିବା ପରେ ତା' ଉପରେ ଏ ଭାଷାକୁ ଆହୁରି କେଇ ହଜାର ବର୍ଷ ଆଗକୁ ବଢ଼ାଇବା ପାଇଁ ସଂକଳ୍ପର ଇନ୍ଧନ ଯୋଗାଇଛି । ତେବେ ଆମର ଏ ଗୌରବ ସାର୍ବଜନୀନ କି କେବଳ ବୁଦ୍ଧିଜୀବୀଙ୍କ ଭିତରେ ସୀମିତ ତାହା ବିଚାରିବାର ବେଳ ଆସିଛି । ଭାଷାଟିଏ କେବେ ହେଁ ଭାଷାଗବେଷାଳିଙ୍କ ଭାଷା ହୋଇ ଜିଏଁ ନାହିଁ, ଜିଏଁ ସାଧାରଣ ଲୋକଙ୍କ ନିତିଦିନର ଜୀବନରେ-ଘରେ, ସାମାଜିକ ମେଳିରେ, ସାହିତ୍ୟରେ ବିଶେଷ କରି ବେପାର-ବଣିଜରେ ଓ ଶାସନରେ । ଆମ ଭାଷା କେତେ କେଉଁଠି ବ୍ୟବହାରରେ ଲାଗୁଛି ଓ କେତେ ଲାଗିବ, ତାହାର ନିର୍ଦ୍ଧାରଣ ନିତାନ୍ତ ଜରୁରୀ । ଏ ଗୁରୁବେଳା ଏବେ ଆସି ଉପନୀତ । ଭାଷାଟିଏ ସବୁବେଳେ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହୋଇଥାଏ ସମାଜ ସମାଜ ଭିତରେ ଭାବ ଦିଆନିଆ ନିମନ୍ତେ । ଇତିହାସ, ସାମାଜିକତା କିମ୍ବା ଧନ ସମ୍ପତ୍ତି ନିଜପର ପିଢ଼ି ପାଇଁ ସାଇତି ରଖିବାପାଇଁ ସମାଜର ପୁରୁଖା ଲୋକେ କଥିତ ଭାଷାକୁ ଲିପି ମାଧ୍ୟମରେ ଲେଖିରଖନ୍ତି । ଏହି ଳେଖିବାର ପ୍ରକ୍ରିୟା କିଛିକାଳ ଚାଲିବା ଭିତରେ ଲିଖନ ପଦ୍ଧତିକୁ ବ୍ୟବସ୍ଥିତ କରିବା ନିମନ୍ତେ ବ୍ୟାକରଣ ତିଆରି ହୁଏ, କେବଳ ଆବଶ୍ୟକତା ମେଣ୍ଟାଇବାପାଇଁ ଲିଖନ ତିଆରି ନହୋଇ ମନୋରଞ୍ଜନ ଓ ଜୀବନଧାରାକୁ ସୁଗମ କରିବାପାଇଁ ସାହିତ୍ୟ ତିଆରି ହୁଏ । ଏମିତି ହୁଏ ଭାଷାର ବିକାଶ । କେବେ ଏକ ଭାଷାଭାଷୀ ସମାଜ ଆଉ ଏକ ଭାଷାଭାସୀ ସମାଜର ଶିକାର ହୁଏ ତ କେବେ ଷଡ଼ଯନ୍ତ୍ରର । ଭାଷା ପ୍ରବାହର ଏ ଆବଡ଼ାଖାବଡ଼ା ପଥରେ ମୂଳ ଭାଷାରୁ କେତେ ନାଶ ହୁଏ କେତେ ଅଲଗା ଭାଷାରୁ ମିଶେ । କେବେକେବେ ଭାଷାଟିଏର ଆଧୁନିକ ରୂପ ମୂଳ ରୂପରୁ ଖୁବ୍ ଅଲଗା ହୋଇବସେ । ଓଡ଼ିଆ, ଏକ ଭାଷା ଭାବେ ଏମିତି ଉତ୍ଥାନ ପତନ ଭିତର ଦେଇ ନିଶ୍ଚିତ ଆସିଛି । ଆଜି ଆମେ ଯଦି କଳିଙ୍ଗରୁ ଆବିଷ୍କୃତ ଲିଖିତ ପୋଥିପୁରାଣରୁ (ଯାହା ପାଳି ଭାଷା ସହିତ ସାମଞ୍ଜସ୍ୟ ରଖେ)ଆମ ଭାଷା ସହ ମେଳ ଖୋଜିବସିବା, ଅନେକ ମେଳ ପାଇବା ନିଶ୍ଚିତ, ହେଲେ ଅନେକ ବର୍ଷର ବ୍ୟବଧାନ ହେତୁ ତା'ର ଅନେକ ଭାଗ ଆମକୁ ବୁଝିବାକୁ ଦୁରୁହ ମଧ୍ୟ ହେବ । ଆମ ଭାଷାର ମୌଳିକତା ଜାଣିବା ସମୟରେ ଆମେ ସବୁଠାରୁ ମୂଳ ପ୍ରମାଣ ଯାହା କେବଳ ଆମର ଅଧୁନା ବ୍ୟବହୃତ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ସହ ମୋଟାମୋଟି ମିଶୁଥିବା ତଥା ଆମର ସାମାଜିକ ବ୍ୟବସ୍ଥାର ଇତିହାସ ସହ ମିଶୁଥିବ, ତାହା ପରଖି ନିର୍ଦ୍ଧାରିବା । ପ୍ରାମାଣିକ ଓ ଐତିହାସିକ ତଥ୍ୟ, ଲୋକମୁଖରେ ଜୀବନ୍ତ ଇତିହାସ (ଓରାଲ ହିଷ୍ଟି୍ର) ତଥା ପ୍ରତ୍ନତାତ୍ତ୍ୱିକ ଗବେଷଣାର ଆଧାରରେ ଏହା ସାଧିତ ହେବ । ଆମ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ କିଛି ଗବେଷଣା ହୋଇଛି, କିଛି କାମ ବାକି ଅଛି, ଆଉ ଆମ ପାଖେ ମିଳୁଥିବା ଭାଷାଗତ, ଲିପିଗତ, ପ୍ରତ୍ନତାତ୍ତ୍ୱିକ ଓ ସାମାଜିକଗତ ପ୍ରମାଣକୁ ଭିତ୍ତିକରି ହୋଇଥିବା ନାନାଦି ଗବେଷଣାକୁ ପରସ୍ପର ସହ ଯୋଡ଼ିବା ଦେଇ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର କ୍ରମବିକାଶର ଧାରା ଜଣାପଡ଼ିବ । ହେଲେ ଇତିହାସ ଗୋଟେ ଆଡ଼େ, ବାସ୍ତବିକ ଜୀବନରେ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରତିଛବି ଆଉ ଗୋଟେ ଆଡ଼େ । ଆମେ ଅତୀତରେ ଏକ ଲଢ଼ୁଆ, ପରିଶ୍ରମୀ, ଚତୁର ଜାତି ହୋଇଥିଲେ ହେଁ ଆମ ଏବେକାର ପିଢ଼ିରେ ଯେ ଘୋଡ଼ାମୁହାଁ ପୁଅ ଜନମ ନହେବେ ତା'କିଏ ଦମ୍ଭର ସହ କହିପାରିବ? ଗହଣା ଯେତେ ଝଟକୁ ପଛେ ମାସରେ ଥରେ ତେନ୍ତୁଳିପାଣିରେ ମାଜିବା ଚାହି । ଭାଷାଟିଏ ଯେତେ ପୁରାତନ ଓ ସମୃଦ୍ଧ ହେଉ ପଛକେ, ଛୋଟ ପିଲାଟିଏରୁ ନେଇ ବୁଢ଼ାଯାଏ ସେ ଭାଷାକୁ ନିଜ ଜୀବନଧାରଣର ଭାଷା ଭାବେ ବ୍ୟବହାର ନକଲାଯାଏ ସେ ଭାଷାର ଉତ୍ତରଣ କେବେ ହେବନାହିଁ । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ଏବେ ଧୀରେଧୀରେ ସାଧାରଣ ବ୍ୟବହାରରୁ ଦୂରେଇ ଯାଉଛି । ଏ କଥା ଯେତେ ବେଦନାଦାୟକ ହେଲେ ବି ସତ । ଆମେ ରକ୍ଷଣଶୀଳ ଭାବେ ଇଂରାଜୀ ବା ହିନ୍ଦୀଭାଷାକୁ ଦୋଷ ହେଉଛୁ ସିନା, କିନ୍ତୁ ସେହି ପରିମାଣରେ ଆମେ ନିଜ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଜନପ୍ରିୟ ମାଧ୍ୟମରେ ସାଧନ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ କରାଇପାରିନାହୁଁ । ମୋବାଇଲ କଷ୍ଟମର କେଆରରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆଟିଏ ସେପଟରୁ କଲ ଉଠାଇ ହିନ୍ଦୀରେ ସିଧା କଥା ହେବା ଆରମ୍ଭ କରିବା ଦେଖି ଲାଗିବ ଆପଣ ବୋଧେ ଦିଲ୍ଲୀ କି ପାଟଣାରେ ଅଛନ୍ତି । ଗଣମାଧ୍ୟମରେ ବହୁବିଧ ଖେଚୁଡ଼ି ଭାଷାରେ ସମ୍ବାଦ ପରିବେଷଣ, ବିଲବୋର୍ଡ଼ଠାରୁ ଆରମ୍ଭ କରି ଟିଭି ବିଜ୍ଞାପନ ଯାଏ ଅବିକଳ ହିନ୍ଦୀ ବା ଇଂରାଜୀ ଢ଼ାଞ୍ଚାରୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆକୁ ବଦଳାଇବା, ଇଂରାଜୀମାଧ୍ୟମ ସ୍କୁଲମାନଙ୍କରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆକୁ ବାଧ୍ୟତାମୂଳକ ନକରାଇବା, ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଶିକ୍ଷାନୁଷ୍ଠାନଗୁଡ଼ିକରେ, ଦୋକାନ ବଜାରରେ, ରାଜଧାନୀର କ୍ୟାଫେଠାରୁ ଆରମ୍ଭ କରି ଛୋଟଛୋଟ ଦୋକାନରେ ହିନ୍ଦୀରେ କଥାବାର୍ତ୍ତା ଶୁଣି ଲାଗୁଛି ଆମ ସମାଜ ପାଇଁ ଆଉ ଏକ ଭାଷା ଆନ୍ଦୋଳନ ଲୋଡ଼ା ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ଏକଥା କହିବାର ଉଦ୍ଦେଶ୍ୟ ହେଉଛି ଯେଉଁ ତୋଷାଳିକୁ ଆମ ସଂସ୍କୃତିର ପ୍ରାଣକେନ୍ଦ୍ର କହି ମନ୍ଦିରମାଳିନୀ ଉପାଧି ଦେଇ ଆମେ ମୁଣ୍ଡରେ ବସାଇଛୁ, ସେଇ ସହରରେ ଅନ୍ୟ ରାଜ୍ୟରୁ ଆଗତ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଭାଷାଭାଷୀ ଇଞ୍ଜିନିଅରିଂ ବା ଅନ୍ୟାନ୍ୟ ଛାତ୍ର ଓ ଚାକିରିଆ କେତେ ଅଧିକ ହୋଇଗଲେ ଯେ, ଆମର ଦୋକାନବଜାରର ବ୍ୟାବହାରିକ ଭାଷା ହିନ୍ଦୀ ହୋଇଗଲା? ଯେଉଁଠି ଆମ ରାଜ୍ୟର ଭାଷା ଓ ଚଳଣିର ବାନା ସୁଦୂର ଜାପାନ, ଥାଇଲାଣ୍ଡ, କୋରିଆ, ମାଲେସିଆ, ସିଙ୍ଗାପୁରଠୁ ଆରମ୍ଭ କରି ଦକ୍ଷିଣ ଆମେରିକାଯାଏ ଉଡ଼ୁଛି ସେଠି ଆମେ ଆମ ପଡ଼ିଶା ରାଜ୍ୟର କେତୋଟି ପିଲାଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ନିଜର ପରିଚୟ ହରାଇଦେବା? ନିଜ ଭାଷାକୁ ଉଜାଡ଼ି ଦେବା? ବିଶ୍ୱାସ କରିବାକୁ ବାଧ୍ୟ ହେବେ ଯେ ଧୀରେଧୀରେ ଓଡ଼ିଶାର ଶିକ୍ଷାନୁଷ୍ଠାନମାନଙ୍କରେ ବ୍ୟାବହାରିକ ଭାଷା ଉପରେ ବର୍ଣ୍ଣିତ ଖେଚୁଡ଼ି ଭାଷା ହେଲାଣି । ଏଥିରେ ହିନ୍ଦୀ ଛୁଆଁ ଥିବାରୁ କେହି ହିନ୍ଦୀ ଭାଷା ବିଶାରଦ ଯେ ଆନନ୍ଦ ଅନୁଭବ କରିବେ ତାହା ମୋର ଧାରଣା ବାହାରେ । ଏମିତି ବେମୁରବା ଭାଷାର ଏନ୍ତୁଡ଼ିଶାଳ ହିନ୍ଦୀ ଭାଷାର ଅନେକ ଟିଭି ଚ୍ୟାନେଲ ଓ ବଲିଉଡ଼ । ଯାହା ଜଣାଶୁଣା ମିଡ଼ିଆରେ ପ୍ରସାରିତ ହୁଏ ତାକୁ ଯୁବଗୋଷ୍ଠୀ ଶୁଣନ୍ତି । ସେଥିରେ ଯୁବାମନକୁ ସୁହାଇବାକୁ ଏତେ ଯେ ଉପାଦାନ ଭରି ରଖାଯାଇଛି, ଆମ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ମିଡ଼ିଆ ଏଯାଏ ପହଞ୍ଚି ପାରୁନାହିଁ; ବରଂ ସେମାନେ ହିନ୍ଦୀ ଭାଷାରେ ପ୍ରସାରିତ ଅନେକ କାର୍ଯ୍ୟକ୍ରମର ନକଲ କରିବାକୁ ଯାଇ ଆହୁରି ବେଙ୍ଗା ଭାଷାଟିଏ ତିଆରି କରୁଛନ୍ତି । ଆଉ ଏ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରସାର କେଉଁ ଗୋଟିଏ ଭାଷାର ଲାଭ ଯେ ହେଉନାହିଁ ଏକଥା କହିବା ବାହୁଲ୍ୟ । ଏ ଭାଷା ଏବେ ରିଆଲିଟି ଶୋ କିମ୍ବା ଗୀତନାଚ ଭଳି ଅନେକ ମନୋରଞ୍ଜନଧର୍ମୀ ଓଡ଼ିଆ କାର୍ଯ୍ୟକ୍ରମରେ ଦେଖିବାକୁ ମିଳିବ । ଭାବନ୍ତୁ, ଆଜିକାଲିର ଶିଶୁମାନେ ବହିଠାରୁ ଯେତେ ଦୂରେଇଗଲେଣି ଆଉ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ଶିକ୍ଷାକୁ ସ୍କୁଲରେ ଯେଉଁଭଳି ଅବହେଳା କରାଯାଉଛି ସେଥିରେ ପିଲାଟିଏ କେମିତି ଅବା ଶିଖିବ ଓଡ଼ିଆ? ଯଦି ଏ ରାଜ୍ୟର ଆଗାମୀ ପିଢ଼ି ଏ ଭାଷା ଶିଖୁନାହାନ୍ତି, ଯୁବାଏ ୪୦ ଭାଗରୁ ଅଧିକ ଶବ୍ଦ ହିନ୍ଦୀ, ଇଂରାଜୀରୁ ଆହୁରି ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରୁଛନ୍ତି ତା'ହେଲେ ଆଉ ଦଶଟି ବର୍ଷରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ କେଉଁଠି ଥିବ? ଭାଷାଟି କେବଳ କ'ଣ କିଛି ଜେଜେ ବୟସର ଲୋକଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ, ଆଉ ସାହିତ୍ୟ ଚଷୁଥିବା କିଛି ତରୁଣ ଓ ପ୍ରବୀଣଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ତେବେ ଏଥିପାଇଁ ଆମ ଗଣମାଧ୍ୟମ ଏକ ଗୁରୁଭୂମିକା ନିଭାଇ ପାରନ୍ତା । ଏବେ ଯେଉଁ ଓଡ଼ିଆକୁ ଆମେ ମାନକ ବୋଲି ମାନୁଛେ ସେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଆମ ଭାଷାର ପୁରାକାଳର ଭାଷା ସହ କିଛି ତ ସାମଞ୍ଜସ୍ୟ ରଖେ । ତା'ର ବାକ୍ୟ ଗଢ଼ଣ ଓ ଶବ୍ଦସମ୍ଭାର ଏବଂ ଦେଶୀୟ କହି ଏକ ସମୟରେ ଫିଙ୍ଗାଯାଇଥିବା ଅନେକ ଶବ୍ଦର ପୁନଃବ୍ୟବହାର କରି ଆଜିର ଖବରକାଗଜ, ରେଡ଼ିଓ-ଟେଲିଭିଜନ ଏବଂ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ୍ରେ ଫେସବୁକ୍, ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ, ଅନ୍ୟାନ୍ୟ ପୋର୍ଟାଲ ଆଦିରେ ଅଧିକରୁ ଅଧିକ ବ୍ୟବହାର କଲେ ତା'ର ପ୍ରଭାବ ସିଧାସଳଖ ସମାଜ ଉପରେ ପଡ଼ନ୍ତା । ହିନ୍ଦୀ କି ବାକି ଭାଷାରୁ କପି ନକରି ଆମର ଅନେକ ସୁଖପାଠ୍ୟ ସାହିତ୍ୟରୁ କାହାଣୀମାନ ଓ ଆମର ନିଆରା ପରିବେଷଣ ଶୈଳୀଟିଏ ତିଆରି କରାଗଲେ ଆଗାମୀ କେଇ ପିଢ଼ିର ମନ ଭିତରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଯେ ବ୍ୟାବହାରିକ ଭାଷାଭାବେ ଏକ ସମୃଦ୍ଧ ଭାଷା, ଏ ଭାବନା ତିଆରି ହୋଇଯାଆନ୍ତା ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ଅନେକେ ଆଳ ଦେଖାନ୍ତି ଯେ କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟରରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ବ୍ୟବହାର ଦୁରୂହ । ଅନ୍ତତଃ ୮ବର୍ଷ ଧରି ଓଡ଼ିଆ ବ୍ୟବହାରର ଅନୁଭୂତିରୁ କହିବି ଯେ କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟରରେ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରିବାପାଇଁ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଜଗତର ବାକି ଭାଷା ତୁଳନାରେ କୌଣସି ଗୁଣରେ କମ୍ ନୁହେଁ । ତେବେ କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର ଓ ମୋବାଇଲରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପଢ଼ିବା ଓ ଲେଖିବା ସହିତ ଅଧିକରୁ ଅଧିକ ୱେବସାଇଟ୍ରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରିବା ଅଧିକ ବଢ଼ିନାହିଁ । ପାଖାପାଖି ୧୦-୨୦ଜଣ ସ୍ୱେଚ୍ଛାସେବୀଙ୍କ ଅବଦାନରେ ୮୦୦୦ରୁ ଅଧିକ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ତିଆରି ହୋଇପାରିଲା ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ, ଆମର ଏତେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଇଞ୍ଜିନିଅର କ'ଣ ଓଡ଼ିଶାର ପାରମ୍ପରିକ ଖେଳକୁ ନେଇ ମୋବାଇଲ କି କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର ଗେମ୍, ପିଲାଙ୍କୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଶିଖାଇବା ପାଇଁ ଇଣ୍ଟରାକ୍ଟିଭ ଗେମ ତିଆରନ୍ତେ ନାହିଁ? ଆଜିକାଲି ପିଲାଏ ବହି ପଢ଼ାରୁ ଯେଉଁ ଦୂରେଇ ଯାଉଛନ୍ତି, ଇ-ବୁକ୍ ବା ଡିଜିଟାଲ ବହି ତିଆରିଲେ ସେସବୁ ପିଲାଏ ଭଲ ଭାବେ ପଢ଼ିପାରନ୍ତେ ।</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">ଭାଷା ସାହିତ୍ୟର ଚଉହଦିରୁ ମୁକୁଳି ବେପାର ବଣିଜର ଭାଷା, ଶାସନର ଭାଷା ହେଉ । ଭାଷା ଶିକ୍ଷାଦୀକ୍ଷାର କେବଳ ଭାଷା ନୁହେଁ ବରଂ ବ୍ୟାବହାରିକ ଭାଷା ହେଲେ ଯାଇ ଲୋକେ ତାକୁ ଅଧିକ କହିବା ଆରମ୍ଭ କରିବେ । ଭାଷାକୁ ନେଇ ହୀନମନ୍ୟତା ସେତେବେଳେ ଦୂର ହେବ ଯେତେବେଳେ ଆମେ ଆମ ଭାଷାକୁ ଅର୍ଥ ରୋଜଗାରର ଭାଷା କରିପାରିବୁ । ଭାଷା ଯେତେବେଳେ ବିତ୍ତଶାଳୀଙ୍କ ଭାଷା ହୁଏ ସେଥିରେ ଗବେଷଣା ହେବାର ଅଧିକ । ଭାଷା ଯେଉଁଠି ଯେତେବେଶି ସାମାଜିକ, ସେଠି ସେତେ ବ୍ୟାପକ । କେରଳୀମାନେ ମନ୍ଦିରର ପୂଜାରେ ଖାଲି ନୁହେଁ, ଚର୍ଚ୍ଚର ଉପାସନାରେ ଆଉ ମସଜିଦର ଫାଟକରେ ମଧ୍ୟ ମାଲାୟାଲାମର ବହୁଳ ବ୍ୟବହାର କରନ୍ତି । ସେମାନଙ୍କର ଧର୍ମଗତ ବିଭେଦ ବାହ୍ୟ ରୂପରେ ଏତେ କମ ଯେ ବେଳେବେଳେ ଜଣାପଡ଼େ ନାହିଁ କିଏ କେଉଁ ଧର୍ମର । ଆମର ଭାଷାର ବ୍ୟବହାର ବେଳେବେଳେ ସାମାଜିକ ବ୍ୟବହାରରୁ ସଂକୀର୍ଣ୍ଣ ହୋଇ ଧର୍ମଗତ ହୋଇଛି । କଳିଙ୍ଗର ଇତିହାସ କହେ ଏ ଚତୁର ଜାତି ସାଗର ବେଳାର ଲମ୍ବା ବେଳାଭୂଇଁ ଉପକୂଳରେ ବସତି ସ୍ଥାପନ କରି କେତେ ଦଶନ୍ଧି ରାଜୁତି କରିଥିଲା, ତା'ର ବଣିକ-ସାଧବ ପୁଅ ମାଛମରାଠାରୁ ପାଟଲୁଗା ବୁଣା ବହୁବିଧ କାମରେ ନିପୁଣ ହୋଇ ନିଜର ଭାଷା, ଚଳଣି ଓ ଜୀବନର ଅନେକ ରଙ୍ଗ ଦକ୍ଷିଣ ଏସିଆର ଦେଶମାନଙ୍କରେ ମାଖିଥିଲେ । ସେ ଭାଷା ବଳବାନ, ଯାହା ବେପାର ଆଉ ଶାସନର ଭାଷା । ସରକାରୀ କାମ ସବୁ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାରେ ହେବା ଆରମ୍ଭ ହେଉ । ଆଗରୁ ଦୁଇଥର ହୋଇ ବନ୍ଦ ହୋଇଯାଇଥିବା ଏ ବ୍ୟବସ୍ଥାର ପୁନରାରମ୍ଭ କରାଗଲେ ଅନେକ ସମ୍ଭାବନା ଠିଆ ହୁଅନ୍ତା ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ଭବିଷ୍ୟତ ପାଇଁ । ଏଥି ସହିତ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାକୁ ନେଇ ଚାକିରି କରିବାପାଇଁ ବି ବାଟ ମିଳିଯାଆନ୍ତା ଯୁବପିଢ଼ିକୁ ।</p>
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<b>The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) welcomes you to the third issue of its newsletter for the year 2013. In this issue we bring you an overview of our research programs, updates of events organised by us, events we participated in, news and media coverage, and videos of some of our recent events.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Jobs</b><br />CIS invites applications for the posts of <a href="https://cis-india.org/jobs/vacancy-for-developer">Developer</a> (NVDA Screen Reader Project), <a href="https://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-officer-access-to-knowledge-and-openness">Programme Officer</a> (Access to Knowledge and Openness), and <a href="https://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-officer-internet-governance">Programme Officer</a> (Internet Governance). To apply send your resume to <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> and <a href="mailto:pranesh@cis-india.org">pranesh@cis-india.org</a>.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility">Accessibility</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is doing two projects in partnership with the <b>Hans Foundation</b>. One of this is to create a national resource kit of state-wise laws, policies and programmes on issues relating to persons with disabilities in India and another is for developing a screen reader and text-to- speech synthesizer for Indian languages. CIS is also working with the World Blind Union and many other organisations to develop a Treaty for the Visually Impaired helped by the WIPO:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>National Resource Kit for Persons with Disabilities</b><br />Anandhi Viswanathan from CIS and Manojna Yeluri from the Centre for Law and Policy Research are working in this project. Draft chapters have been published. Feedback and comments are invited from readers for the chapters on Lakshadweep, Meghalaya and Uttar Pradesh:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/national-resource-lakshadweep-chapter-call-for-comments">The Lakshadweep Chapter</a> (by Anandhi Viswanathan, March 25, 2013): The union territory of Lakshadweep has not passed any legislation for persons with disabilities, but implements the provisions under the central laws. The benefits currently available to persons with disabilities in Lakshadweep include disability pension, unemployment allowance and grant for setting up kiosks.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/national-resource-kit-the-meghalaya-chapter-call-for-comments">The Meghalaya Chapter</a> (by Manojna Yeluri, March 25, 2013): Meghalaya is one of the few north-eastern states, which has appointed a Commissioner for Disabilities. Most of the schemes and benefits given to persons with disabilities in Meghalaya are under centrally sponsored schemes. Very few schemes are initiated by the state government. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/national-resource-uttar-pradesh-chapter-call-for-comments">The Uttar Pradesh Chapter</a> (by Manojna Yeluri, March 31, 2013): The Government of Uttar Pradesh has established shelter homes and vocational training centres in several parts of the states — most recently in Meerut, Bareilly and Gorakhpur. It has also undertaken to finance nearly 4340 corrective surgeries for polio across nine cities of Uttar Pradesh. It also intends to start several projects in 2013. These include the establishment of a Braille Press in order to produce Braille books, magazines and other study material.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Resources<br /></b>We now have a new section on our website which contains all government notifications, RTI applications, and accessibility related resources: cases, statutes, etc. The following were published earlier this month:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/resources/information-about-schemes-for-disabled-haryana">Information about Schemes for Disabled Persons in Haryana</a> We received this notification on schemes and policies for persons with disabilities from the Government of Haryana.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/resources/haryana-notification">Haryana Government Notification</a> (Hindi version): The notification that we received from the state government was in Hindi. We will put up the English translation soon.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/resources/west-bengal-govt-notifications">West Bengal (Govt) Notifications</a>: We received a series of notifications from the West Bengal Government from its various departments such as finance, higher education, transport, health and family welfare, labour, land and land reforms, panchayats and rural development, etc. <a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/resources/west-bengal-notifications.zip">OCR versions</a> of the same have been published.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/resources/lakshadweep-govt-notifications">Lakshadweep (Govt) Notifications</a>: Notifications received from the Lakshadweep Government including guidelines for functioning of KIOSKS, grant of unemployment allowance and special jobs to persons with disabilities, issuing identity card to persons with disabilities for availing government benefits, etc., are published. <a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/resources/lakshadweep-ocr-notifications">OCR versions</a> have also been put up.</li>
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<p><b>Event Participated In</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/discussion-on-intercept-between-uncrpd-and-cedaw">A Discussion on Intercept between UNCRPD & CEDAW</a> (organized by the Shanta Memorial Institute of Rehabilitation – Odisha, CBR Network and Mitra Jyoti, Bangalore, Karnataka, February 4, 2013): Anandhi Viswanathan participated in this event. </li>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a> and <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness">Openness</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Wikimedia Foundation <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">awarded</a> CIS a two year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop the growth of Indic language communities and projects by community collaborations and partnerships. This is being carried out by the Access to Knowledge team based in Delhi. CIS is also doing a project (Pervasive Technologies) on examining the relationship between production of pervasive technologies and intellectual property. CIS also promotes openness including open government data, open standards, open access, and free/libre/open source software through its Openness programme.</p>
<h3><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan"><b>Wikipedia</b></a></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Beginning from September 1, 2012, Wikimedia Foundation <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">awarded</a> CIS a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. The <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team" title="Access To Knowledge/Team">A2K team</a> consists of four members based in Delhi: <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">T. Vishnu Vardhan</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Nitika Tandon</a>, <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Subhashish Panigrahi</a> and <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/people/our-team">Noopur Raval</a>, and one team member <a href="https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team">Dr. U.B. Pavanaja</a> who is working from Bangalore office.</p>
<p><b>Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/indic-wikipedia-visualisation-project-visualising-basic-parameters">Visualising Basic Parameters</a> (by Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay, March 26, 2013): Sajjad and Sumandro bring you a visualisation of the growth of Indic Wikipedia in this first post on Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project. They look into the different aspects of the past and present activities of Indic Wikipedias, and divide the visualisation into three different focus areas: (1) basic parameters, (2) geographic patterns of edits, and (3) exploring the topics that receives the greatest number of edits. </li>
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<p><b>Events Organised</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-session-at-bits-goa">Introductory Wikipedia session at BITS Goa</a> (organised by CIS, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Goa, March 7, 2013). The Access to Knowledge team was invited by Nikhil Dixit from BITS to organise a Wikipedia editing session. Nitika Tandon led the session on IP editing. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop">Kannada Wikipedia Workshop</a> (organised by CIS, Institution of Engineers, JLB Road, Mysore, March 24, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja led this workshop.</li>
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<p><b>Events Co-organised</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wiki-womens-day-in-goa">Wiki Women's Day in Goa</a> (organised by the Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS, Nirmala Institute of Education, Panaji, Goa, March 8, 2013). Nitika Tandon participated in this workshop held on International Working Women's Day, and shares the developments in this report.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-for-kannada-science-writers">Wikipedia Workshop for Kannada Science Writers</a> (organised by Wikimedia India Chapter, Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishath and CIS, Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishath Conference Hall, Banashankari 2nd Stage, Bangalore, March 17, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event.</li>
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<p><b>Upcoming Event</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/events/telegu-wiki-mahotsavam-2013">Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013</a> (co-organised with the Telegu Wikipedia community, Hyderabad, April 9 to 11, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan is participating in this event as a speaker. A public event will be held on April 11 from 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. at Golden Threshold (Sarojini Naidu's house) in Hyderabad. </li>
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<p><b>Events Participated</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-womens-workshop-bangalore-2013">Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013</a> (organised by Wikimedia India, Servelots Infotech, Jayanagar, Bangalore, March 8, 2013). The event was covered by Kannada Prabha on March 9, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-at-avenir">Wikipedia at Avenir</a> (organised by the Wikipedia community, Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal, March 11, 2013). CIS supported this event. </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Event Report from Other Organisations</b><br />Wikipedia Community members helped the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications Programme (HEIRA) of CSCS Bangalore to organize a day-long workshop on ‘Digital Literacy’ at Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar, Maharasthra on January 17, 2013. Tanveer Hasan of HEIRA shares with us the developments in <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/ahmednagar-marathi-wikipedia-workshop-report">this report</a>.</p>
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<h3><b>Other </b><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness"><b>Openness</b></a><b> Updates</b></h3>
<p><b>Event Report</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog/iraqi-public-data-scenario-workshop">Iraqi Public Data Scenario Workshop: A Summary</a> (by Sumandro Chattapadhyay, March 26, 2013): A workshop on public data was conducted by Sunil Abraham and Sumandro Chattapadhyay for the officials of the Government of Iraq. It was organized by UNDP Iraq in Amman, Jordan from October 18 to 23, 2012. Sumandro Chattapadhyay shares with us the developments from the workshop held over five days. </li>
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<p><b>Event Participated</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/open-data-camp-2013">Open DataCamp - 2013</a> (organized by Open Data Camp, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (inside Christ University Campus), Dairy Circle, Bangalore, March 2 and 3, 2013): Sunil Abraham was a panelist.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>HasGeek</b><br />HasGeek creates discussion spaces for geeks and has organised conferences like the <a href="http://fifthelephant.in/2012/">Fifth Elephant</a>, <a href="http://droidcon.in/2011">Droidcon India 2011</a>, <a href="http://androidcamp.hasgeek.com/">Android Camp</a>, etc. HasGeek is supported by CIS and works from the CIS office in Bengaluru.</p>
<p><b>Upcoming Events</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://pigworkshop.fifthelephant.in/">Pig Workshop</a> (organized by HasGeek, Alchemy Solutions, Domlur, Bangalore, 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.): A workshop on how to use Pig for mining useful information from data. It is open to programmers who have a background in Java programming, some familiarity with Hadoop and MapReduce algorithms, and have worked with large chunks of data.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/fifth-elephant-2013">The Fifth Elephant 2013</a> (organized by HasGeek, July 11 to 13, 2013, NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore). </li>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Internet Governance programme conducts research around the various social, technical, and political underpinnings of global and national Internet governance, and includes online privacy, freedom of speech, and Internet governance mechanisms and processes. Currently, CIS is doing a project with <b>Privacy International</b>, London to facilitate research and events around surveillance, and freedom of speech and expression.</p>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p><b>Policy</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/draft-human-dna-profiling-bill-april-2012">Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill</a> (April 2012): High Level Concerns (by Elonnai Hickok, March 12, 2013). The post examines the high level concerns that CIS has with the April 2012 draft of the Bill.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/human-dna-profiling-bill-analysis">Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012 Analysis</a> (by Jeremy Gruber, Council for Responsible Genetics, US, March 19, 2013). Jeremy provides an analysis of the Human DNA Profiling Bill, 2012. He says that India’s updated 2012 Human DNA Profiling Bill offers largely superficial changes from its predecessor, the Draft DNA Profiling Bill, 2007.</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/privacy-protection-bill-2013-citizens-draft">The Privacy (Protection) Bill 2013: A Citizen's Draft</a> (by Bhairav Acharya, March 26, 2013). Bhairav Acharya has drafted the Privacy (Protection) Bill 2013. It contains provisions that speak to data protection, interception, and surveillance and also establishes the powers and functions of the Privacy Commissioner, and lays out offenses and penalties for contravention of the Bill. The Bill represents a citizen's version of possible privacy legislation for India, and will be shared with key stakeholders including civil society, industry, and government.</li>
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<p><b>Upcoming Events</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/privacy-round-table">A Privacy Round Table in Delhi</a> (organized by CIS and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, FICCI Federation House, Tansen Marg, New Delhi, April 3, 2013). </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/privacy-round-table-in-bangalore">A Privacy Round Table in Bangalore</a> (organized by CIS and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Jayamahal Palace, Jayamahal Road, Bangalore, April 20, 2013).</li>
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<p><b>Event Organized</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/analyzing-draft-human-dna-profiling-bill">Analyzing the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012</a> (organized by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, March 1, 2013): Maria Xynou shares <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/summary-of-cis-workshop-on-dna-profiling-bill-2012">a summary of the workshop</a> in this report.</li>
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<p><b>Events Participated In</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/global-partners-meeting-london">Global Partners Meeting @ London</a> (organized by Privacy International, London School of Economics and Political Science, March 22 – 25, 2013). Sunil Abraham and Malavika Jayaram participated in the event.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/global-asc-upenn-events-indias-civil-liberties-crisis">India’s Civil Liberties Crisis: Of Bans, Blocks, Bullying and Biometrics</a> (organized by the Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March 28, 2013). Malavika Jayaram participated as a speaker.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/future-of-privacy-in-india-on-april-5-2013-at-oberoi-hotel-new-delhi">Future of Privacy in India</a> (organized by DSCI and ICOMP, Oberoi Hotel, New Delhi, April 5, 2013). Sunil Abraham is a speaker at this event.</li>
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<p><b>Blog Posts</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/hacking-without-borders-the-future-of-artificial-intelligence-and-surveillance">Hacking without borders: The future of artificial intelligence and surveillance</a> (by Maria Xynou, March 15, 2013). In this post, Maria looks at some of DARPA´s artificial intelligence surveillance technologies in regards to the right to privacy and their potential future use in India.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/driving-in-the-surveillance-society-cameras-rfid-black-boxes">Driving in the Surveillance Society: Cameras, RFID tags and Black Boxes...</a> (by Maria Xynou, March 26, 2013). Maria examines red light cameras, RFID tags and black boxes used to monitor vehicles in India.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/microsoft-releases-first-report-on-data-requests-by-law-enforcement-agencies">Microsoft Releases its First Report on Data Requests by Law Enforcement Agencies around the World</a> (by Maria Xynou, March 27, 2013). CIS presents Microsoft´s report on law enforcement requests, with a focus on data requested by Indian law enforcement agencies.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/the-criminal-law-amendment-bill-2013">The Criminal Law Amendment Bill 2013 — Penalising 'Peeping Toms' and Other Privacy Issues</a> (by Divij Joshi, March 31, 2013). The pending amendments to the Indian Penal Code, if passed in their current format, would be a huge boost for individual physical privacy by criminalising stalking and sexually-tinted voyeurism and removing the ambiguities in Indian law which threaten the privacy and dignity of individuals.</li>
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<h3>IT Act</h3>
<p><b>Featured Blog Post</b></p>
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<li><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/cis-welcomes-standing-committee-report-on-it-rules">CIS Welcomes Standing Committee Report on IT Rules</a> (by Pranesh Prakash, March 27, 2013). CIS welcomes the report by the Standing Committee on Subordinate Legislation, in which it has lambasted the government and has recommended that the government amend the Rules it passed in April 2011 under section 79 of the Information Technology Act. The post was quoted in: <a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-28/internet/38098800_1_rules-self-regulation-pranesh-prakash">The Times of India</a> (March 28, 2013), <a href="http://www.thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=449591&catid=73">The Statesman</a> (March 28, 2013), <a href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-03-28/news/38099676_1_google-chairman-eric-schmidt-government-pranesh-prakash">Economic Times</a> (March 28, 2013), <a href="http://www.dqindia.com/dataquest/news/186012/cis-welcomes-panels-anti-govt-stand-it-rules">Data Quest</a> (March 28, 2013), and <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/clarify-and-define-terms-in-it-rules-panel-tells-govt/article4570291.ece">The Hindu</a> (April 1, 2013).</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Submissions<br /></b>Bhairav Acharya, on behalf of CIS submitted comments to the Committee on Subordinate Legislation of the 15<sup>th</sup> Lok Sabha for the following rules:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/comments-on-it-electronic-service-delivery-rules-2011">Comments on the Information Technology (Electronic Service Delivery) Rules, 2011</a>. The Rules were notified by the Central Government in the Gazette of India vide Notification GSR 316(E) on April 11, 2011.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/comments-on-the-it-reasonable-security-practices-and-procedures-and-sensitive-personal-data-or-information-rules-2011">Comments on the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011</a>. The Rules were notified by the Central Government in the Gazette of India vide Notification GSR 313(E) on April 11, 2011.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/comments-on-the-it-guidelines-for-cyber-cafe-rules-2011">Comments on the Information Technology (Guidelines for Cyber Cafe) Rules, 2011</a>. The Rules were notified by the Central Government in the Gazette of India vide Notification GSR 315(E) on April 11, 2011.</li>
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<p>Note: <i>The above rules were submitted earlier but published on our website only recently</i>.</p>
<h3>Unique ID Project</h3>
<p><b>Event Organized</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/uid-and-npr">Unique Identity Number (UID), National Population Register (NPR), and Governance</a> (organized by CIS and Say No to UID Campaign, TERI, Bangalore, March 2, 2013): CIS interviewed Usha Ramanathan and Anant Maringanti. Watch the <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/workshop-on-the-uid-and-npr">videos</a> uploaded in this blog post by Maria Xynou. This was covered in <a href="https://cis-india.org/news/newzfirst-march-3-2013-people-should-resist-enforcement-of-uid-scheme-say-experts">newzfirst</a> on March 3, 2013 and in the <a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-march-3-2013-uid-has-no-legal-sanctity">Hindu</a> on March 3, 2013.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Interview</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/uid-and-npr-a-background-note">Unique Identification Scheme (UID) & National Population Register (NPR), and Governance</a> (by Elonnai Hickok, March 14, 2013). The post examines the UID, NPR and Governance as it exists in India. A video on the UID interview Questions and Answers is published.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>News and Media</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/zdnet-mahesh-sharma-march-14-2013-indian-id-crisis-unveils-aadhar-doubts">Indian ID crisis unveils Aadhaar doubts</a> (ZDNet, March 14, 2013). Sunil Abraham is quoted. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/aeg-india-march-16-2013-new-dollar-one-billion-ric-project-casts-doubts-on-aadhar">New $1 Billion RIC Project Casts Doubts on Aadhaar</a> (AEG India, March 16, 2013). Sunil Abraham is quoted. </li>
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<p><b>Blog Entry</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/indias-biometric-identification-programs-and-privacy-concerns">India's Biometric Identification Programs and Privacy Concerns</a> (by Divij Joshi, March 31, 2013). </li>
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<h3>Free Speech and Expression</h3>
<p><b>News and Media</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/openmagazine-article-business-prashant-reddy-march-2-2013-foreign-funding-of-ngos">Foreign Funding of NGOs</a> (by Prashant Reddy, Open Magazine, March 2, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/rt-march-1-2013-icelands-proposed-porn-ban">Iceland’s proposed porn ban ‘like repression in Iran, N. Korea’ – activists</a> (RT, March 1, 2013). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/wsj-march-4-2013-dhanya-ann-thoppil-chidambaram-to-talk-budget-on-google-hangout">Chidambaram to Talk Budget on Google+ Hangout</a> (by Dhanya Ann Thoppil, Wall Street Journal, March 4, 2013). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/livemint-ruchita-saxena-march-13-2013-responding-to-govt-requests-is-a-challenge-for-online-firms">Responding to govt requests is a challenge for online firms: Colin Maclay</a> (LiveMint, March 13, 2013). Colin M. Maclay, managing director of Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard mentioned CIS.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/afp-march-18-2013-indian-police-set-up-lab-to-monitor-social-media">Indian police set up lab to monitor social media</a> (originally published by <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iVMgMkOgpXOTaon2VoLdvu2x5oyg?docId=CNG.6d8f555d3498b94bac2fb1046fc7d3a6.4a1">AFP</a>, March 18, 2013, and also carried in <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130318/indian-police-set-lab-monitor-social-media">Global Post</a> on the same day). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/wsj-r-jai-krishna-march-20-2013-namaste-mr-eric-schmidt">Namaste, Mr. Eric Schmidt</a> (by R. Jai Krishna, Wall Street Journal, March 20, 2013). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-ishan-srivastava-march-28-2013-parliament-panel-blasts-govt-over-ambiguous-internet-laws">Parliament panel blasts govt over ambiguous internet laws</a> (by Ishan Srivastava, The Times of India, March 28, 2013). Pranesh Prakash is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/times-of-india-atul-sethi-march-30-2013-what-if-the-net-shut-down-for-a-few-days">What if the Net shut down for a few days</a> (by Atul Sethi, The Times of India, March 30, 2013). Sunil Abraham is quoted.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/the-times-uk-jerome-starkey-francis-elliott-david-brown-march-21-2013-press-controls-send-wrong-message-to-rest-of-world">Press controls ‘send wrong message to rest of world’</a> (by Jerome Starkey from Johannesburg, Francis Elliott from Delhi and David Brown, The Times, UK). </li>
</ul>
<p><b>Event Organized</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/freedom-song-film-screening-and-discussion">Freedom Song: Film Screening and Discussion</a> (IIHS Bangalore City Campus, March 21, 2013). Freedom Song, a documentary film produced by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust and directed by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Subi Chaturvedi was screened. </li>
</ul>
<p><b>Events Participated In</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://www.iijnm.org/iijnmnews-rept.html">Is Social Media Incredible?</a> (organized by Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media, Bangalore, March 2, 2013). Snehashish Ghosh participated in a panel discussion. The New Indian Express <a href="https://cis-india.org/news/new-indian-express-march-4-2013-social-media-undermining-journalistic-credibility">published a post-event report</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/rethinking-the-internet">Rethinking the Internet: The Way Forward</a> (organized by Telecom Italia and Financial iTimes, Telecom Italia Future Centre, Italy, March 21 – 22, 2013). Pranesh Prakash participated in this event.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Others</h3>
<p><b>Events Organised</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/dml-hub-net-dml-2013">DML 2013: Fourth Annual Conference</a> (co-organised by CIS and Digital Media & Learning Research Hub Central, Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers - Chicago, Illinois, March 14 – 16, 2013). We had a special track that ran through the conference on "Whose Change Is It Anyway? Futures, Youth, Technology And Citizen Action In The Global South (And The Rest Of The World)". Noopur Raval was one of the 16 presenters that we had selected on the tracks. Nishant Shah was one of the members in the <a href="http://http/dml2013.dmlhub.net/">Conference Committee</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p><b>Blog Posts</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/wgig-8-stock-taking-mapping-and-going-forward">WGIG+8: Stock-Taking, Mapping, and Going Forward</a> (Fontenoy Building, conference room # 7, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, February 27, 2013). Pranesh Prakash was the moderator for the session. A summary of the discussion has been published.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/dns-singularity-of-icann-and-the-gold-rush">What’s In a Name? — DNS Singularity of ICANN and the Gold Rush</a> (by Sharath Chandra Ram, March 31, 2013). March 2013 being the 28th birthday of the first ever registered Internet domain as well as the exigent launch of the Trademark Clearing House disguised as a milestone in rights protection by ICANN for its new gTLD program, Sharath Chandra Ram, dissects the transitory role of ICANN from being a technical outfit to the Boardroom Big Brother of Internet Governance.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/bensonsamuel-an-introduction-to-bitfilm-and-bitcoin-in-bangalore">An Introduction to Bitfilm & Bitcoin in Bangalore, India</a> (by Benson Samuel, March 12, 2013). Video of the event organized by CIS on January 23, 2013 is published in this blog post.</li>
</ul>
<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access">Knowledge Repository on Internet Access</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS in partnership with the Ford Foundation is executing a project on Internet Access. It covers the history of the internet, technologies involved, principle and values of internet access, broadband market and universal access and will touch upon various polices and regulations which has an impact on internet access and bodies and mechanism which are responsible for formulation policies related to internet access. The blog posts and modules will be published in a new website: <a href="http://www.internet-institute.in">www.internet-institute.in</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Upcoming Event</b><br />We are hosting an “Institute on Internet and Society” in collaboration with the Ford Foundation India, which is to be held from June 8, 2013 to June 14, 2013. Call for registration and relevant details will be announced soon on our website.</p>
<p>The following units have been published:</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access/internet-protocols">Internet Protocols</a> (by Srividya Vaidyanathan, March 18, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access/how-email-works">How email works, how do you get your email? Email Protocols</a> (SMTP, POP, IMAP), SPAM/Phishing (by Srividya Vaidyanathan, March 19, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access/internet-corporation-for-assigned-names-and-numbers">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers</a> (by Snehashish Ghosh, March 19, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access/international-telecommunication-union">ITU sectors — ITU-R, ITU-T, ITU-D, etc</a>. (by Snehashish Ghosh, March 27, 2013).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/knowledge-repository-on-internet-access/wcit-2012">World Conference on International Telecommunications 2012</a> (by Snehashish Ghosh, March 29, 2013).</li>
</ul>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/about/telecom">Telecom</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is involved in promoting access and accessibility of telecommunications services and resources and has provided inputs to ongoing policy discussions and consultation papers published by TRAI. It has prepared reports on unlicensed spectrum and accessibility of mobile phones for persons with disabilities and also works with the USOF to include funding projects for persons with disabilities in its mandate:</p>
<p><b>Newspaper Column</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/organizing-india-blogspot-shyam-ponappa-march-8-2013-are-indias-glory-days-over">Are India's Glory Days Over?</a> (by Shyam Ponappa, <a href="http://organizing-india.blogspot.in/2013/03/are-indias-glory-days-over.html">Organizing India Blogspot</a>, March 8, 2013, originally published in the <a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/are-india-s-glory-days-over-113030600625_1.html">Business Standard</a>, March 6, 2013).</li>
</ul>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/digital-natives">Digital Natives</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Digital Natives with a Cause? examines the changing landscape of social change and political participation in light of the role that young people play through digital and Internet technologies, in emerging information societies. Consolidating knowledge from Asia, Africa and Latin America, it builds a global network of knowledge partners who critically engage with discourse on youth, technology and social change, and look at alternative practices and ideas in the Global South:</p>
<p><b>Events Participated In</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<ul>
<b> </b>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/video-vortex-9-net-re-assemblies-of-video">Video Vortex # 9 Re:assemblies of Video</a> (organized by the Institute of Network Cultures, Post Media Lab, Moving Image Lab, Leuphana, et.al, February 28 – March 2, 2013). Nishant Shah gave the <a href="http://videovortex9.net/ai1ec_event/reassemblies/?instance_id=292">key note</a>. Videos of the event are published.</li>
</ul>
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<h2><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/digital-humanities">Digital Humanities</a></h2>
<p>From 2012 to 2015, the Researchers @ Work series is focusing on building research clusters in the field of Digital Humanities. We organised the first Habits of Living workshops in Bangalore last year. The next workshop is being held in Brown University</p>
<p><b>Event Co-organised</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<ul>
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<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/digital-humanities/blogs/habits-of-living/habits-of-living-networked-affects-glocal-effects">Habits of Living: Networked Affects, Glocal Effects</a> (co-organised with Brown University, March 21 – 23, 2013, Brown University, Rhode Island). Nishant Shah was a <a href="http://www.brown.edu/Conference/Habits/">speaker</a> at this event. He made a presentation on network ontologies.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Event Participated</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<ul>
<b> </b>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/news/trans-review-korean-trans-cine-media-in-global-contexts">Korean Trans Cine-Media in Global Contexts: Asia and the World</a> (organized by Trans-Asia Screen Culture Institute, Cinema Studies, Korean National University of Arts, Korean Film Archive and Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University, Seoul, March 27 – 29, 2013). Nishant Shah was a speaker at this event. He spoke on "The Asian Intercourse: Reimagining the Inter-Asia moment through ‘net-porn’ in networks".</li>
</ul>
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<h2><a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/">About CIS</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Follow us elsewhere</h3>
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<li>Get short, timely messages from us on <a href="https://twitter.com/cis_india">Twitter</a></li>
<li>Join the CIS group on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/">Facebook</a></li>
<li>Visit us at <a href="https://cis-india.org/">http://cis-india.org</a></li>
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<h3>Support Us</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Please help us defend consumer / citizen rights on the Internet! Write a cheque in favour of ‘The Centre for Internet and Society’ and mail it to us at No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bengaluru – 5600 71.</p>
<h3>Request for Collaboration</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org">sunil@cis-india.org</a> or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at <a href="mailto:nishant@cis-india.org">nishant@cis-india.org</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects.</i></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeDigital NativesTelecomAccessibilityInternet GovernanceDigital HumanitiesOpennessResearchers at Work2013-04-14T11:45:29ZPageGrants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015 round2/The Centre for Internet and Society/Impact report form
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/grants-apg-proposals-2014-2015-round2-the-centre-for-internet-and-society-impact-report-form
<b>This form is for organizations receiving Annual Plan Grants to report on their results to date. For progress reports, the time period for this report will the first 6 months of each grant (e.g. 1 January - 30 June of the current year). For impact reports, the time period for this report will be the full 12 months of this grant, including the period already reported on in the progress report (e.g. 1 January - 31 December of the current year).</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Read the original published on <a class="external-link" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Impact_report_form">Wikimedia Blog here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">This form includes four sections, addressing global metrics, program stories, financial information, and compliance. Please contact APG/FDC staff if you have questions about this form, or concerns submitting it <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Reporting_requirements" title="Grants:APG/Reporting requirements">by the deadline</a>. After submitting the form, organizations will also meet with APG staff to discuss their progress.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Global metrics overview - all programs</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We are trying to understand the overall outcomes of the work being funded across our grantees' programs. Please use the table below to let us know how your programs contributed to the <a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_%26_Evaluation/Global_Metrics" title="m:Grants:Learning & Evaluation/Global Metrics">Global Metrics</a>. We understand not all Global Metrics will be relevant for all programs, so feel free to put "0" where necessary. For each program include the following table and</p>
<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Next to each required metric, list the outcome achieved for all of your programs included in your proposal.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Where necessary, explain the context behind your outcome.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">In addition to the Global Metrics as measures of success for your programs, there is another table format in which you may report on any OTHER relevant measures of your programs success.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>For more information and a sample, see <a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_%26_Evaluation/Global_Metrics" title="m:Grants:Learning & Evaluation/Global Metrics">Global Metrics</a>.</i></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Overall</h3>
<table class="plain" style="text-align: justify; ">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Metric</th><th>Achieved outcome</th><th>Explanation</th>
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<td>1. # of active editors involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">157</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K has been able to increase participation of female editors across its Focus Language Areas.</td>
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<tr style="text-align: right; ">
<td style="text-align: left; ">2. # of new editors</td>
<td>799</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Our WEP initiatives have helped in introducing and retaining editors across FLA (except for Odia).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3. # of individuals involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">1200</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Public events and anniversary celebrations held in Odia and Kannada have helped Wikimedia projects in reaching the general public as these events have been widely covered by media.</td>
</tr>
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<td>4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">2823</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Photo-walks, WEP activities and image re-licensing efforts have helped the A2K team in achieving this metric.</td>
</tr>
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<td>5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">18998</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Thematic edit-a-thons anchored by A2K and Collaborative edit-a-thons that have been supported by A2K have been a big hit during the last grant period amongst Indic Wikimedians.</td>
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<tr>
<td>6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">109.64 MB</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Kannada</h3>
<table class="plain" style="text-align: justify; ">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Metric</th><th>Achieved outcome</th><th>Explanation</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1. # of active editors involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">23</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">As of now the Kannada community is relatively small, A2K would like to expand the user and editor base by taking Wikimedia activities to various parts of the state.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2. # of new editors</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">609</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">These numbers include new editors from WEP initiative and editathons conducted as part of 13 Kannada Wikipedia anniversary.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3. # of individuals involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">700</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Public event organised during the 13th Kannada Wikipedia anniversary has boosted our reach.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">1290</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Due to the Photo walk organised as part of the 13th year Kannada Wikipedia anniversary celebrations.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">8132</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Most of the articles created under WEP initiative are still under sandbox (as a quality enforcing measure), hence the number is low. The number also includes Wikisource folios.</td>
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<td>6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">56.5 MB</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Konkani</h3>
<table class="plain" style="text-align: justify; ">
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<th>Metric</th><th>Achieved outcome</th><th>Explanation</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1. # of active editors involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">4</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Activities in Konkani Wikipedia dipped after the project became live.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2. # of new editors</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">20</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">The new editors were introduced to Konkani Wikipedia with the help of <a class="text external" href="http://www.nirmalainstitute.org/" rel="nofollow">Nirmala Institute of Education, Panjim</a> an institutional partner of CIS-A2K.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3. # of individuals involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">50</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">34</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">1546</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Konkani Wikipedians took the project of creating one article per village in Goa quite enthusiatically.</td>
</tr>
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<td>6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">8.11 MB</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Marathi</h3>
<table class="plain" style="text-align: justify; ">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Metric</th><th>Achieved outcome</th><th>Explanation</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1. # of active editors involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">64</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Events conducted at Pune University, Pune and IIT-Bombay involved existing Wikipedians.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2. # of new editors</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">59</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Activities conducted at SWERI, Pandharpur, TISS, Mumbai and IIT-Mumbai have contributed to this.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3. # of individuals involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">150</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Involvement of Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited opened up new readership to get involved in Marathi Wikimedia projects.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">27</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">A2K team could not organise a dedicated photo walk or invest in image re-licensing activity.</td>
</tr>
<tr style="text-align: justify; ">
<td>5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">331</td>
<td>Although the number of the articles is low, many new female editors were introduced and have taken up editing on Marathi Wikipedia.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">2.64 MB</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Odia</h3>
<table class="plain" style="text-align: justify; ">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Metric</th><th>Achieved outcome</th><th>Explanation</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1. # of active editors involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">21</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; "><a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikipedia-takes-puri" rel="nofollow">Wiki Tungi</a> activities are lead by active Wikimedians from the Odia community.</td>
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<tr>
<td>2. # of new editors</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">56</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; "><a class="extiw" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%B3%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B0_%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%A3%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%AE%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AD%A8%E0%AD%A6%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AB" title="or:ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ନବକଳେବର ଗଣସମ୍ପାଦନା ୨୦୧୫">Nabakalebara edit-a-thon</a> gained a lot of currency on the social media platforms which in turn resulted in new editors for Odia Wikimedia projects.</td>
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<td>3. # of individuals involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">120</td>
<td>Three events with Puri WikiTungi (Puri Workshop, 15th Anniversary celebration, and Mission Odisha event), <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/introducing-odia-wikipedia-to-students-of-utkal-university-bhubaneswar" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia workshop in Utkal University</a>.</td>
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<td>4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">601</td>
<td>Nabakalebara edit-a-thon had an in-built component of adding images related to the Rathayatra.</td>
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<td>5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">1780</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Only pages created in Odia Wikipedia and Odia Wikisource are indicated and not article improved.</td>
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<td>6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">9.56 MB</td>
<td></td>
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</tbody>
</table>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Telugu</h3>
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<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Metric</th><th>Achieved outcome</th><th>Explanation</th>
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<tr>
<td>1. # of active editors involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">30</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2. # of new editors</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">45</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Need to try getting more New users on to the board.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3. # of individuals involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">150</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">871</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">1342</td>
<td>Includes folios digitized in Wikisource.</td>
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<td>6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">7.23 MB</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Train-a-Wikipedian</h3>
<table class="plain" style="text-align: justify; ">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Metric</th><th>Achieved outcome</th><th>Explanation</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1. # of active editors involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">15</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Editors who have participated in at least one training session.</td>
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<tr>
<td>2. # of new editors</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">10</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">Editors who got beginners' training (includes account creation and basic Wikipedia training such as Wikiformatting, components of Wikipedia, article structure).</td>
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<td>3. # of individuals involved</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">30</td>
<td>#1+#2 and the people who were involved during training sessions.</td>
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<td>4. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">5867</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td>5. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects</td>
<td style="text-align: right; ">25.6 MB</td>
<td></td>
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</tbody>
</table>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Telling your program stories - all programs</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Please tell the story of each of your programs included in your proposal. This is your chance to tell your story by using any additional metrics (beyond global metrics) that are relevant to your context, beyond the global metrics above. You should be reporting against the targets you set at the beginning of the year throughout the year. We have provided a template here below for you to report against your targets, but you are welcome to include this information in another way. Also, if you decided not to do a program that was included in your proposal or added a program not in the proposal, please explain this change. More resources for storytelling are at the end of this form. Here are some ways to tell your story.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "> </p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; ">We encourage you to share your successes and failures and what you are learning. Please also share why are these successes, failures, or learnings are important in your context. Reference learning patterns or other documentation.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; "> Make clear connections between your offline activities and online results, as applicable. For example, explain how your education program activities is leading to quality content on Wikipedia.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; "> We encourage you to tell your story in different ways by using videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g.), compelling quotes, and by linking directly to work you produce. You may highlight outcomes, learning, or metrics this way.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; "> We encourage you to continue using dashboards, progress bars, and scorecards that you have used to illustrate your progress in the past, and to report consistently over time.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; "> You are welcome to use the table below to report on any metrics or measures relevant to your program. These may or may not include the global metrics you put in the overview section above. You can also share your progress in another way if you do not find a table like this useful.</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">A2K key activities</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">During this grant period CIS-A2K has organized and supported a number of events in collaboration with Indic Wikimedia community members. Some of those are:</p>
<table class="vertical listing" style="text-align: justify; ">
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<th>July 2015</th><th>August 2015</th><th>September 2015</th>
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<td><a class="text external" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/07/15/konkani-wikipedia-goes-live/">Konkani Wikipedia goes live</a>,<br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/July_2015#Event_organized.2Fparticipated" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/July 2015">See more</a>)</td>
<td><a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/events/rare-telugu-religious-and-historical-work-preserved-at-annamacharya-library-to-come-on-wikisource" rel="nofollow">Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Annamacharya library</a><br /> <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/events/tulu-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore" rel="nofollow">Tulu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/July_2015" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/July 2015">See more</a>)</td>
<td><a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/events/seminar-on-empowering-marathi-schools-pune" rel="nofollow">Seminar on "Empowering Marathi Schools", Pune</a>,<br /> <a class="extiw" href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%A8/%E0%B3%A7%E0%B3%AF" title="kn:ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೧೯">Kannda Wikipedia meetup</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/August_2015" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/August 2015">See more</a>)</td>
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<th style="text-align: justify; ">October 2015</th><th style="text-align: justify; ">November 2015</th><th style="text-align: justify; ">December 2015</th>
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<tr>
<td><a class="external text" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/konkani-language-books-from-konkani-language-culture-center-mannd-sobhaann-to-enrich-konkani-wikipedia" rel="nofollow">Konkani language book donation</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/October_2015" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/October 2015">See more</a>)</td>
<td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/November_2015#top" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/November 2015">4 Indic language communities IRC meeting</a>,<br /> <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/making-tulu-wikipedia-live" rel="nofollow">Community discussion for making Tulu Wikipedia live</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/November_2015" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/November 2015">See more</a>)</td>
<td><a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/events/sau-dhuni-teen-project-december-edit-a-thon-at-womens-studies-centre-university-of-pune" rel="nofollow">Sau Dhuni Teen Project: December Wikipedia Edit-a-thon</a>,<br /> <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/discussion-on-bringing-peshwa-culture-on-marathi-wikipedia" rel="nofollow">Initiative to bring 1000 books<br /> about the culture of<br /> Maharashtra on Marathi Wikipedia</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/December_2015" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/December 2015">See more</a>)</td>
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<tr>
<th style="text-align: justify; ">January 2016</th> <th style="text-align: justify; ">February 2016</th> <th style="text-align: justify; ">March 2016</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/100-konkani-articles-added-to-wikipedia-in-one-day" rel="nofollow">Konkani-language Edit-a-thon and English-Romi Konkani dictionary release</a>,<br /> <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Geographical_Indications_in_India_Edit-a-thon" title="CIS-A2K/Events/Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon">Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/January_2016" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/January 2016">See more</a>)</td>
<td><a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/events/digitisation-sprint-at-andhra-loyola-college-vijayawada-to-bring-more-books-on-telugu-wikisource" rel="nofollow">Digitisation sprint at Andhra Loyola College</a>,<br /> <a class="text external" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/02/28/kannada-wikipedia-vasanth-sn/">Kannada Wikipedia's 13th anniversary</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/February_2015" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/February 2015">See more</a>)</td>
<td>(<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/February_2016" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/February 2016">See more</a>) <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Press_releases/National_Wikipedia_Education_Program_Review_Meeting_At_Christ_University_Bengaluru" title="CIS-A2K/Press releases/National Wikipedia Education Program Review Meeting At Christ University Bengaluru">National Wikipedia Education review program</a>,<br /> <a class="text external" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/05/09/bangla-translations-odia-womens-history/">Odia-language Women’s History Month edit-a-thons</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/March_2016" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/March 2016">See more</a>)</td>
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<tr style="text-align: justify; ">
<th style="text-align: justify; ">April 2016</th> <th style="text-align: justify; ">May 2016</th> <th style="text-align: justify; ">June 2016</th>
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<td><a class="extiw" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:%E0%AC%9C%E0%AC%A8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%A4%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A5%E0%AC%BF/%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AA" title="or:ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ଜନ୍ମତିଥି/୧୪">Odia Wikipedia's 14th anniversary</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/April_2016" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/April 2016">See more</a>)</td>
<td><a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/events/mini-train-the-trainer-and-mediawiki-training-for-wikimedians-in-pune" rel="nofollow">Mini TTT and MWT in Pune</a>,<br /> <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/events/advanced-training-for-kannada-language-wikimedians-in-bangalore" rel="nofollow">Advanced training for Kannada-language Wikimedians</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/May_2016" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/May 2016">See more</a>)</td>
<td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2016" title="CIS-A2K/Events/Train the Trainer Program/2016">Train the Trainer 2016</a>,<br /> <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/MediaWiki_Training/2016" title="CIS-A2K/Events/MediaWiki Training/2016">MediaWiki Training</a><br /> (<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/June_2016" title="CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/June 2016">See more</a>)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Capacity building</h2>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Train the Trainer</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/TTT" title="TTT">Train the Trainer</a> (or TTT in short) is a residential program that attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedians. Participating Wikimedians interact with A2K staff members and community leaders towards designing, implementing and documenting activities such as outreach, GLAM projects, edit-a-thons, etc. Various topics such as grants' structure, funding opportunities both with A2K and WMF, effective reporting and documentation, use of Global and other metrics, etc., are also covered.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">After the first 2 iterations in <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2013" title="CIS-A2K/Events/Train the Trainer Program/2013">2013</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2015" title="CIS-A2K/Events/Train the Trainer Program/2015">2015</a>, the third iteration of the training program <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2016" title="CIS-A2K/Events/Train the Trainer Program/2016">was conducted in June 2016</a>.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Diversity</dt></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In this iteration—</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><b>Language:</b> 16 Wikimedians from 10 different language communities participated as shown in the pie chart below.</li>
</ul>
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<div class="thumbinner"><a class="image" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TTT_2016_participants_by_community.png"><img class="thumbimage" height="198" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/TTT_2016_participants_by_community.png/320px-TTT_2016_participants_by_community.png" width="320" /></a>
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<div class="thumbcaption">Participants of TTT 2016, representing different language communities</div>
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<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Gender:</b> This year we had 5 female participants (out of 15 participants). After the 2013 iteration we felt we should try to encourage more female Wikipedians to participate in TTT. However, this does not mean that we had any different eligibility criteria set for the female Wikipedians.</li>
</ul>
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<div class="thumbinner"><a class="image" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TTT_2016_participants_by_gender.png"><img class="thumbimage" height="198" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/TTT_2016_participants_by_gender.png/320px-TTT_2016_participants_by_gender.png" width="320" /></a>
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<div class="thumbcaption">Participants division by gender</div>
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<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Representation of Indic Wikimedia communities:</b> We had participants from all over India. Although TTT is a national-level event, we also had participants from outside of India (Nepal and Sri Lanka).</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
<div class="tright thumb" style="text-align: justify; ">
<div class="thumbinner"><a class="image" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CIS-A2K_TTT_2016.jpg"><img class="thumbimage" height="166" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/CIS-A2K_TTT_2016.jpg/300px-CIS-A2K_TTT_2016.jpg" width="300" /></a>
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<div class="thumbcaption">TTT 2016 participants</div>
</div>
</div>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; ">After the 2015 version we found that a few participants faced difficulties to understand and work on the pre-event presentations. This year (2016), we have given more detailed instructions and were in touch with the participants while they were doing pre-event works.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">By dovetailing TTT and MWT, A2K team was able to bring Indic Wikimedians working for outreach and on technical front together. This helped the participants to create a wishlist regarding tools, gadgets, and other technical help required to conduct effective outreach activities.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Based on participants' feedback and suggestions plus our own observations, while keeping Wikimedia Foundation's guidelines in mind, we make necessary changes to our program structure. In this year's TTT we made a number of changes‖</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>We encouraged more eligible female editors to participate.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">We found that the objective and aims of the event remained unclear to a few participants in the earlier iterations. This year we have given more attention to explain the program's objectives, aims and expectations.</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Challenges</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; ">We expected that the participants would be in touch with us while planning, conducting, and making reports of an event. After 2015 TTT<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-too_early_1-0"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Impact_report_form#cite_note-too_early-1">[1]</a></sup> we found a few participants did not respond to our emails or messages.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">While TTT 2016 participants have shown active interest during WCI-related edit-a-thon, the same level of interest was not seen during regular monthly meetups.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Despite having communicated to the TTT 2015 participants that a mini TTT should be organized in their communities, however this was not taken up actively.</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Mediawiki_Training">Mediawiki Training</span></h4>
<div class="thumbinner" style="text-align: justify; "><a class="image" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MWT%283%29.jpg"><img class="thumbimage" height="200" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MWT%283%29.jpg/300px-MWT%283%29.jpg" width="300" /></a>
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<div class="thumbcaption">Participants of MWT 2016, during the workshop</div>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">MediaWiki Training (MWT) is an annual residential training workshop that intends to bridge the prevalent gap between outreach volunteers and MediaWiki volunteers and developers. MWT attempts to create and groom 'tech' leaders from the existing Indian language Wikipedians. It aims to facilitate discussions around nurturing leadership regarding technical issues such as filing bugs that hinder the growth of Indian language Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. At the same time, it encourages active contribution towards improving the existing MediaWiki software from the participants to understand importance of utilizing technology for outreach activities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/MediaWiki_Training/2015" title="CIS-A2K/Events/MediaWiki Training/2015">first iteration of the event</a> was held on 24-27 June 2015. 14 editors from 8 Indic communities participated in this workshop. Some of the topics taught during the workshop were: Bugs -presentation, demo & case study, Bots - Pywiki & AWB, MediaWiki tools, TranslateWiki, Quarry, WikiMetrics, APIs, User scripts.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/MediaWiki_Training/2016" title="CIS-A2K/Events/MediaWiki Training/2016">second iteration</a> of the workshop was conducted on 17-19 June 2016 in Bangalore. MWT 2016 was planned to facilitate an idea-exchange platform between outreach volunteers and MWT participants. 11 editors from 6 Indic Wikimedia communities recieved training during this workshop. Some of the topics discussed during the program were Wikidata, usage of Wikimedia labs tools, templates and infobox creation, as well as AutoWikiBrowser (AWB).</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Ensure better logistics co-ordination thus guaranteeing involved participation from the participants.</li>
<li>Priority topics must be given more time.</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Challenges</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Scheduling follow-up events such as mini version of MWT across Indic Wikimedia communities.</li>
<li>To identify female Wikimedians and encourage them to participate in MWT.</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Train-a-Wikipedian_2">Train-a-Wikipedian</span></h4>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian" title="CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian">Train-a-Wikipedian</a> (TAW) was started in December 2015 to identify enthusiastic Indic Wikipedians, to train and groom them to develop their editing skills. Inspired by the <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user" title="en:Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user">Adopt-a-User program</a> of the English-language-Wikipedia, this initiative is working on encouraging new Wikimedians who nominate themselves to learn basic Wikimedia policies. Until 30 June 2016, more than <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions" title="CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions">25 training sessions</a> have been conducted.</p>
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<li>The concept of Train-a-Wikipedian was appreciated by several Indic Wikimedians from different communities.</li>
<li>More than 25 Wikimedians signed up for this program.</li>
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<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Reflections</dt></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">These are some of the reflections/feedback we received from Train-a-Wikipedian participants:</p>
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<th><br /></th><th>Community</th> <th>Topics/Learnings</th> <th>Feedback/Reflections</th>
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<td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nrgullapalli" title="User:Nrgullapalli">User:Nrgullapalli</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Nrgullapalli" title="CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Nrgullapalli">Training page</a>)</td>
<td>Telugu Wikipedia</td>
<td>Policy discussion such as civility, stub,<br /> How to search in a better way using operators etc on the web to get references<br /> Introduction to The Wikipedia Library / Resource exchange / CIS-A2K Resource exchange.</td>
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The training was helpful, I learned a couple of new tools. But I feel such trainings should be conducted on regular basis and follow-ups should be done.
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<td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mouryan" title="User:Mouryan">User:Mouryan</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Mouryan" title="CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Mouryan">Training page</a>)</td>
<td>Bengali Wikipedia</td>
<td>Essentials of conducting local Wiki-event.<br /> Using special pages such as Special:UncategorizedPages,, Special:ShortPages etc., Google Books citation, Metrics.wikimedia.org</td>
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It was amazing and a quite enriching experience for me at a personal level sir. The things I learnt at Train-a-Wikipedian Hyderabad actually paid the results soon enough.and it enabled to successfully conduct my first offline Wikipedia Meetup in Kolkata just within one month's time. . .
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<td><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rajasekhar1961" title="User:Rajasekhar1961">User:Rajasekhar1961</a><br /> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Rajasekhar1961" title="CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Rajasekhar1961">Training page</a>)</td>
<td>Telugu Wikipedia</td>
<td>AdminTools such as MoreMenu, QuickWikiEditor, Citation making using Google Books citation tool, autofilling (from reftoolbar), DOI citation tool; Quick Page purging</td>
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I picked up some very useful skills & learnt good tools. But, I became a little inactive after that so could not utilize these learnings much. I hope to do so in future.</div>
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<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
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<li>This initiative was inspired by English Wikipedia's program Adopt-a-user, however we found that we must make necessary changes to meet requirements of Indic Wikimedians.</li>
<li>Real-life training sessions left a deeper impact and motivated Wikimedians much more than online training modules.</li>
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<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Challenges</dt></dl>
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<li>We failed to conduct sufficient number of offline training sessions.</li>
<li>Follow-ups have not been done for a couple of workshops, for example a TAW workshop was <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions/2016-05-15" title="CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions/2016-05-15">conducted in Hyderabad on 15 May</a> and was well-received, but no follow-up TAW workshop has been conducted since then in the city.</li>
<li>From A2K's side sometimes there were delays in connecting and co-ordinating with the signed-up participants. On the other hand sometimes, we did not got responses from the participants when we contacted them.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Policies_and_guidelines_on_Indic_Wikipedias">Policies and guidelines on Indic Wikipedias</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K started working on <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Policies_and_guidelines" title="CIS-A2K/Policies and guidelines">a project</a> to support and encourage Indic Wikipedians to create and/or localize policies in their native languages. A survey was conducted and a <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indic_Wikipedia_Policies_and_Guidelines_Handbook.pdf" title="File:Indic Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines Handbook.pdf">policy handbook</a> was also created.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
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<li>Efforts must be taken to initiate discussion regarding creation, localisation of policies in events organized by A2K</li>
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<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Challenges</dt></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Although a few policy-discussion meetups have been conducted (such as <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions/2016-02-07" title="CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions/2016-02-07">this one</a>), we faced difficulties finding volunteer translators to translate the handbook into Indic languages.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Kannada_2">Kannada</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Kannada Wikipedia has reached the 20,000 article mark during this year. Kananda community members collaboratively designed the plan for the 13th Kannada Wikipedia anniversary. This activity brought together Wikimedians from different parts of Karnataka. By applying for a PEG Kannada Wikipedians have interacted with global Wikipedians and WMF staff. This event resulted in new editors and outreach activities in various parts of Karnataka. A2K has appointed a <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Glossary" title="CIS-A2K/Glossary">Program Associate</a> as per its revised strategy <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Glossary" title="CIS-A2K/Glossary">A2K 2.0</a> for Kannada Wikimedia projects.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Institutional_partnership">Institutional partnership</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Two new partnerships have been initiated during this grant period–</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">While Alva's Education Foundation is going to be a partner in implementing Wikipedia Education Program. DSERT is an institution that trains school teachers all across Karnataka state. A2K will be training the trainers about using and editing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in the context of their classroom. However, the 3 other institutional partnerships - Karnataka Janapada University, Manjusha Museum, Dharmasthala, and Tumkur University, Tumkur- that were anticipated during the writing of workplan, could not materialize. This was due to the delay in recruiting a Program Associate for the Kannada Wikimedia projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A2K has successfully continued its earlier partnerships and has benefited from their advice regarding our WEP activities and workplan.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Awareness_and_Outreach">Awareness and Outreach</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Both the DSERT partnership and the 13th anniversary helped raise awareness around thematic article writing which encouraged Kannada Wikipedians to engage in projects. Various editing projects on literature, science, engineering subjects were taken up actively by the community members. Approximately 225 articles were created exclusively as part of 13th year anniversary celebrations.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K also tried to engage in skill-building activities for the Kannada community members. As per the requests from volunteers, capacity building programs were arranged both in groups and in one-on-one settings to individual Wikimedians. Both TTT and MWT saw active participation from Kannada community. The results of these would be visible in the coming months.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In order to increase the offline readership of Kannada Wikipedia, offline versions of Kannada Wikipedia (using kiwix) were distributed through flash drives during 13th year Kannada Wikipedia anniversary held at Mangalore. 50 such flash drives have been distributed so far to those in need.</p>
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<li>Kannada was not properly represented in terms of blogs and media coverage and we have been working on addressing this issue.</li>
<li>A better communication method would be devised with inputs from the community members.</li>
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<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Gating factors</dt></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A2K has not been successful towards re-releasing of textbooks published by the Government of Karnataka under CC-by-SA licences.</p>
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<li>An orientation for Kananda bloggers, some of who could be potential Wikimedians, has not taken place.</li>
<li>Some community members have repeatedly emphasized on having better communication, documentation of activities taken up by the Program Associate.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Through the community building activities such as the formation of Puri WikiTungi and revival of Bhubaneswar WikiTungi, active editors of the Odia Wikipedia movement reached <a class="text external" href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaOR.htm">30 editors</a> (as of 30 June 2016). Regular follow-up with Wikimedians on-Wiki and via different social media channels along with monthly meetups has helped in editor retention. This has further encouraged Odia Wikimedians to participate in both on-Wiki and off-Wiki activities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K has supported the community to celebrate the 14th Anniversary of Odia Wikipedia, which facilitated 30 Wikimedians to meet and discuss the future activities for Odia Wikimedia projects.</p>
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<div class="thumbcaption">Adyasha Sahu a Wikimedian from Puri community sharing her journey in the Wikimedia movement.</div>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikipedia-takes-puri" rel="nofollow">Puri WikiTungi</a> is a city-based editing group formed by Wikimedians from Puri to spread awareness about Odia Wikimedia projects in and around the city. This group was formed after the first Wikipedia workshop in Puri. Around 30 individuals attended the workshop. 14 participants from this workshop have emerged as active editors on Odia Wikipedia and Odia Wikisource. They are also involved in conducting offline meet-ups, seminar and workshops.</p>
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<div class="thumbcaption">Gender diversity in Odia Wikimedia community during 2014-16. For this statistics Odia Wikipedia and Odia Wikisource have been considered.</div>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K has engaged with seven new female Wikipedians and this has resulted in their active participation on Odia Wikimedia projects. One of the female Wikmedians, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Chinmayee_Mishra" title="User:Chinmayee Mishra">Chinmayee Mishra</a> has independently conducted a Wikipedia orientation workshop. This workshop has boosted participation of female Wikipedians. Their efforts have been discussed through blog posts and other social media platforms.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Two organizations are unofficially supporting Odia Wikimedia community by providing meetup space and internet access for Bhubaneswar and Puri WikiTungis. A2K must make official agreements with these institutions.</p>
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<li>Failed to build a partnership with any institution for running Education program for Odia Wikimedia projects. Awareness about the importance of WEPs is required for achieving this.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Telugu_2">Telugu</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A2K team has been successfully collaborating with Telugu Wikipedia community to improve <a class="extiw" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%85%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%B6%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A7%E0%B0%BF" title="te:వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/గూగుల్ అనువాద వ్యాసాల శుద్ధి">content quality</a> on Telugu Wikipedia and strengthen the community by increasing its reader and editor base. The team also <a class="extiw" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%82_2015_-_%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95_%E0%B0%9B%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81" title="te:వికీపీడియా:సమావేశం/తెలుగు వికీపీడియా దినోత్సవం 2015 - తెవికీలోకి చారిత్రిక ఛాయాచిత్రాలు">shares ideas</a> by <a class="extiw" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%9A%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A1/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A4_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A_46#.E0.B0.B5.E0.B0.BF.E0.B0.9C.E0.B0.AF.E0.B0.B5.E0.B0.BE.E0.B0.A1_.E0.B0.86.E0.B0.82.E0.B0.A7.E0.B1.8D.E0.B0.B0_.E0.B0.B2.E0.B0.AF.E0.B1.8A.E0.B0.B2.E0.B0.BE_.E0.B0.95.E0.B0.B3.E0.B0.BE.E0.B0.B6.E0.B0.BE.E0.B0.B2.E0.B0.B2.E0.B1.8B_.E0.B0.A1.E0.B0.BF.E0.B0.9C.E0.B0.BF.E0.B0.9F.E0.B1.88.E0.B0.9C.E0.B1.87.E0.B0.B7.E0.B0.A8.E0.B1.8D_.E0.B0.B8.E0.B1.8D.E0.B0.AA.E0.B1.8D.E0.B0.B0.E0.B0.BF.E0.B0.82.E0.B0.9F.E0.B1.8D" title="te:వికీపీడియా:రచ్చబండ/పాత చర్చ 46">providing</a> and <a class="extiw" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A7%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%85%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%80" title="te:వికీపీడియా:సమావేశం/గ్రంథాలయాధికారులకు వికీ అకాడమీ">extending</a> support such as involving community members in <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/cis-brings-nadustunna-charithra-magazine-under-by-cc-by-sa-licence" rel="nofollow">discussions with potential partners</a> and <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/a-workshop-to-improve-telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-nobel-laureates" rel="nofollow">designing programs based on their suggestions</a>. Such collaboration has strengthened communities to conduct many <a class="extiw" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%98%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81,_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A3%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%8E%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%A5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D" title="te:వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/సంఘటనలు, పరిణామాలు ఎడిటథాన్">Edit-a-thons</a> which have resulted in a wide variety of quality articles. A2K intends to continue such collaborative activities resulting in improvements of stub and poorly translated articles.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Activities_and_Events">Activities and Events</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K team has been involved in conducting (holding or co-ordinating) several edit-a-thons in Telugu Wikimedia community, while a few were <a class="extiw" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A4_%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A3_%E0%B0%8E%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%A5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D" title="te:వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/పాత తెలుగు సినిమా వ్యాసాల విస్తరణ ఎడిటథాన్">anchored in Telugu</a>, others were <a class="extiw" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%9C%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%AB%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%87%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B7%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%87%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%87%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%8E%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%8D-%E0%B0%85-%E0%B0%A5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D" title="te:వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/జాగ్రఫికల్ ఇండికేషన్స్ ఇన్ ఇండియా ఎడిట్-అ-థాన్">multi-lingual</a>. Many initiatives of the last grant period (i.e. July 2014 to June 2015) <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/telugu-wiki-edit-a-thon-at-alc" rel="nofollow">have been continued</a>. A2K and the community have <a class="extiw" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A4_%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A3_%E0%B0%8E%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%A5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D" title="te:వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/పాత తెలుగు సినిమా వ్యాసాల విస్తరణ ఎడిటథాన్">collaboratively organised</a> an of sharing resources has resulted in which focused on improving Telugu movie articles. Community members have expanded stubs with information, references and photos. For the edit-a-thon A2K provided resources and references and the community members developed stub articles and created new articles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Capacity building activities have also been carried out with Telugu Wikipedians. A <a class="extiw" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%88%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%B9%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%85%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%97%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B9%E0%B0%A8_%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%82" title="te:వికీపీడియా:సమావేశం/హైదరాబాదు/కాపీహక్కుల అవగాహన కార్యక్రమం">copyrights session</a> was conducted to improve Telugu Wikimedians' understanding on the subject and clear doubts for Wikisource contributors. Community members, Meena Gayathri and T.Sujatha, attending CIS A2K's <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions/2016-02-11" title="CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian/Sessions/2016-02-11">Train-a-Wikipedian session</a> have expressed that they gained invaluable knowledge and skills in content translation. The two later initiated a <a class="extiw" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%85%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%B6%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A7%E0%B0%BF" title="te:వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/గూగుల్ అనువాద వ్యాసాల శుద్ధి">project</a> to improve the quality of Google Translated articles. More than 30 such articles have been improved through it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Similarly, the <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tools-orientation-for-telugu-wikimedians-at-hyderabad" rel="nofollow">Quick introduction sessions</a> held in Hyderabad community meet-ups by CIS A2K helped explain some online tools usage and enabled Wikipedians to contribute better for Wikimedia projects. One of the most active Wikipedians, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95" title="User:స్వరలాసిక">Swaralasika</a>, said that he was able to make better citations after the sessions which has helped him improve his editing.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Institutional_Partnership_2">Institutional Partnership</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">With the institutional partnerships established between CIS A2K and Annamayya library, Telugu Wikisource community members <a class="text external" href="https://te.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%B7%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A3">have uploaded some of the missing pages</a> in on Telugu Wikisource. Due to the attempts of the community members towards proofreading these books can be downloaded now. The Andhra Loyola College partnership has also cultivated new editors and engage in WEP activities.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Outreach_and_Media">Outreach and Media</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Increased media coverage has helped the cause of Telugu Wikimedia projects. Hard work of several Telugu Wikipedians (such as <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985" title="User:Pranayraj1985">Pranayraj</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A7%E0%B1%8D.%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BF.%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%86." title="User:విశ్వనాధ్.బి.కె.">Viswanadh</a>) has been recognized and highlighted. <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985" title="User:Pranayraj1985">Pranayraj</a> points out that the media coverage helped him reach more people who want to contribute to Wikipedia.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>A2K team has been working to make Telugu Wikipedia more visible in popular Telugu media, especially in printed media such as <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-day-2015-photo-walk" rel="nofollow">off-wiki</a> and <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/telugu-wikipedia-articles-on-punjab-media-coverage" rel="nofollow">on-wiki</a> events coverage in major local newspapers like <i>Eenadu</i>, <i>Sakshi</i>, <i>Andhra Jyothi</i></li>
<li>WEP activities at partner institutions need to be synchronized with their academic schedule.</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Gating factors</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Technical support requests from the community were delayed on our end. To overcome this, we are trying to find interns to assign technical tasks requested from communities.</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Konkani_2">Konkani</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Having gone live since July 2015 after nine years of incubation, <a class="extiw" href="https://gom.wikipedia.org/wiki/" title="gom:">Goan Konkani Wikipedia</a> has developed and expanded with the help of CIS A2K to draw more contributors and resources into the project. CIS-A2K has attempted to develop Konkani Wikipedia in all the three scripts (Romi, Devanagari, Kannada). Institutions such as Thomas Stephen Konkani Kendra (TSKK) for Romi script, Goa Konkani Sahitya Academy for Devanagari script, Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy for Kannada script have agreed to donate content.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Department of Computer Science, Goa University, had organized an edit-a-thon to include the villages of Goa state on Konkani Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Due to the discontinuation of the Program Associate for Konkani, several of our programmatic activities have not been accomplished during this grant period.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Partnership">Partnership</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the past year, CIS-A2K had the honour to collaborate with Mannd Sobhaann and World Konkani Centre, organizations working with Konkani language and culture, to bring in more resources into Konkani Wikipedia. These two organizations work for popularization and conservation of Konkani culture and language. Mannd Sobhaan has donated three Konkani books under CC-BY-SA license which has provided great sources for citation and references. On the other hand, these organizations have also agreed to hold GLAM activities, while A2K would digitize their archives of audio, video and text resources to further expand resources available for Konkani Wikimedia projects.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Activities_and_Events_2">Activities and Events</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A one-day edit-a-thon was organized at Krishnadas Shama Central Library, Goa in January 2016. Members of CIS-A2K participated in this event to help mentor the participants. The event created 100 new articles on Konkani Wikipedia in a single day.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Increase editor base by engaging academicians and bloggers.</li>
<li>Increase readership by introducing Konkani Wikipedia in primary and higher primary schools.</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Gating factors</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Activity in the end of 2015 was low in Konkani Wikipedia that no new articles were created in November and December.</li>
<li>Non-availability of a Program Associate</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Marathi_2">Marathi</span></h3>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Partnership_2">Partnership</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) has re-licensed 1000 books on the culture, history, and literature under CC-by-SA 4.0 license in October, 2015. In December 2015, a discussion was initiated by CIS A2K at The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) to plan digitization and uploading of the books for Marathi Wikisource.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Events_and_Outreach">Events and Outreach</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A two-day workshop was organised by the CIS A2K Program Associate in August 2015 at Srimati Savitribai Phule Pune University. This workshop was an attempt to bridge the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K_/Projects/Sau_Dhuni_Teen/December_2015_Edit-a-thon_at_Krantijyoti_Savitribai_Phule%27s_Women%27s_Studies_Centre,_Pune_University" title="CIS-A2K /Projects/Sau Dhuni Teen/December 2015 Edit-a-thon at Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule's Women's Studies Centre, Pune University">gender gap</a> on Marathi Wikipedia. The "Sau Dhuni Teen" project focused on creating Wikipedia articles on notable women, themes and works related to gender studies. This event attracted new editors and introduced to them input methods for Marathi methods and basic guidelines of contributing to Wikipedia. The event also served as an important initiative to utilize Wikipedia in generating Indian language annotations on academic sources in Women's Studies and the Social Sciences.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In May, 2016, CIS A2K organized a two-day mini version of Train-the-trainer (TTT) and Mediawiki Training (MWT) for Marathi Wikimedians in Pune. Topics covered in the Mediawiki training include Wikidata, bug triage, Mediawiki extensions, etc., while the TTT session focused on advanced editing skills, outreach planning, and grants structure introduction.</p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>A strategy is required to utilize books donated by Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) as references on Marathi Wikipedia.</li>
<li>Spreading Marathi Wikipedia-related activities to different parts of Maharashtra .</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Gating factors</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Some participants of workshops reflect that unavailability of sandboxes in Marathi Wikipedia was a concern for new editor as they were unsure if the article might be changed during the time they edit.</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="General_Support_and_Service_to_the_Movement">General Support and Service to the Movement</span></h3>
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<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Partnership_Summary">Partnership Summary</span></h4>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><b>Growing partnerships in WEPs</b>: A2K team has successfully continued all the partnerships form the previous grant period and has also been able to bring new partners onboard thus adding value to the Wikimedia movement. A2K conducted a review program for its WEP partners in Bangalore during the last grant period. This review program allowed the WEP partners across 3 different states to meet and discuss the salient features of the WEP initiative being run at their institutions. This review program helped A2K team to understand institutional expectations and challenges. The review meeting also helped us to generate inter institutional collaboration and sync A2K schedule with academic calendar of these institutions.</li>
<li><b>Book/Resource donation and digitization</b>: A2K team is immensely happy to have partnered with Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha which has donated 1000 books about the Maratha administration, culture, history and social life. Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited, Pune has offered us in-kind support by digitising all these books and making them available to be uploaded on Marathi Wikisource.</li>
<li>Our collaboration with Manasu Foundation, Bangalore has also allowed us to digitise content donated to A2K for free. Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada now hosts a Digital Resource Lab that provides nevessary infrastructure (Computers, Internet access and printing facility) for all the Telugu Wikimedians.</li>
<li>Centurion University, Bhubhaneswar has expressed in digitising Odia publications from the copyright lapse period. With this partnership A2K expects to add close to 50000 folios to Odia Wikisource.</li>
<li><b>Goa University partnership and Indian village articles</b>: After a brief lull in the activities of Konkani Wikipedia activities have spiked up again mainly because of the encouragement offered by Goa University. Prof. Madhav Gadgil with support from Goa University has launched a project of using the Census of India data to create articles on Villages of India. This activity has been eagerly taken up by the Konkani community members.Encouraged by the level of enthusiasm shown by the Konkani community members Telugu, Marathi and Odia community members have also been engaged in creating articles on villages of India in their respective languages.</li>
<li><b>Partnership in image re-licensing</b>: Alva's Education Foundation have donated more than 15000 images under CC-BY_SA license. These images depict the folk art forms, famous personalities, cultural practices, tribal costumes and other areas regarding the social and cultural life of Karnataka in particular and South India in general.</li>
<li><b>Decision of focusing on existing partnerships</b>: Many institutions that were indicated under the category 'To be explored' for a partnership during this plan year have not been approached as A2K team worked towards consolidating its work with the existing institutions rather than crowding our resources. This decision was taken in accordance with the suggestion of community members and FDC suggestion.</li>
<li><b>Partnership re-assessment</b>: A further re-assessment of Institutional partnerships based on the parameters of RoI, contribution to Global Metrics and community support will be undertaken during the grant period July 2016- June 2017. Thus providing the A2K team opportunity to consolidate its work further and adopting course corrections (such as working with a different Wikimedia project, changing target group, conducting intensive summer/winter camps and if necessary exiting the partnership).</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Outreach_Strategies_Development">Outreach Strategies Development</span></h4>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><b>Online and offline media outreach strategies</b>: Stories related to Indian language Wikipedias and Wikimedia projects used to get less attention in the regional language media in India. There has been a hike in news articles and columns related to Indic-language Wikimedia projects both in print and electronic media. One of the most important reasons behind this is the establishment and growing relations with journalists and news editors that are responsible for specific genre of news. Actively writing opinion pieces to newspaper editorials and making blog posts on popular online portals are another reason.</li>
<li><b>Laying out strategies for recruiting new contributors using social media</b>: Learning from our past initiative experiences such as the movement where new contributors on social media helped Odia Wikisource go live<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Impact_report_form#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup>, CIS-A2K has been helping communities with online outreach strategies. Some of the lessons learned can be found in <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Harvesting_new_Wikimedians_from_social_media" title="Grants:Learning patterns/Harvesting new Wikimedians from social media">this</a> learning pattern.</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Other_Communication_and_Contribution">Other Communication and Contribution</span></h4>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><b>Balance of Focus Language Area (FLA) and non-FLA language</b>: As CIS-A2K has been working primarily in five focus languages (Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Odia and Telugu, with Tulu and Santali as two additional languages), there has been more attention paid to the aforementioned seven languages and less on the remaining Indian languages. The same pattern also reflects in our media outreach. To balance this and to provide support in the larger Indic language community, CIS-A2K has made efforts in connecting non-FLA Wikimedians with global community leaders<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Impact_report_form#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> and writing about work accomplished in non-FLA communities.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Impact_report_form#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup></li>
<li><b>Highlighting the' community-led projects and less-known languages</b>: CIS-A2K has contributed and highlighting in promoting the projects that are primarily community-led<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Impact_report_form#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> that are not necessarily catalyzed by the CIS-A2K. Also, via public speaking and publications, CIS-A2K has attempted to promote indigenous and the less-known languages of India.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Impact_report_form#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Challenges">Challenges</span></h4>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><b>Labor intensive WEP programs</b>: WEP initiative at many of our institutions have proven to be labour intensive. A2K team has not been able to integrate its efforts with the community members. There has also been a perception that the participating Higher Education institutions are required to only provide infrastructure and carve time out of academic schedule. This leads to a situation where the A2K team is often forced to devote time and resources towards the evaluation of assignments.</li>
<li><b>Lack of institutional partnership in Odia community</b>: Despite the A2K team's attempts to establish formal institutional partnership and further a WEP initiative in Odia language, we have not been successful. With the consent of the Odia community A2K team has approached Centurion University regarding setting up a Wikisource Learning Centre.</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="CIS-A2K_request_page">CIS-A2K request page</span></h4>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K has a <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests" title="Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests">request page</a> intended for Wikimedian/s from India to place requests for support from CIS-A2K. Between 1 July 2015 and 30 June 2016, CIS-A2K has supported 21 such programs/initiatives. The communities supported by CIS-A2K include Odia, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali etc. Besides offering financial support to conduct events, CIS-A2K has also provided non-financial support such as SWAG material, and technical and documentaion support.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Some of the events/initiatives we have supported are</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Odia Wikipedians <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests/Archive_2015_2#Request_to_fund_for_Odia_Wikipedia_workshop_cum_Nabakalebara_Editathon_during_the_event." title="Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests/Archive 2015 2">conducting Nabakalebara edit-a-thon</a> (July 2015), <a class="text external" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests&oldid=15252159#Funding_request_for_Odia_Wikisource_1st_Birthday_Celebration">Odia Wikisource 1st anniversary celebration</a> (October 2015), <a class="text external" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests&oldid=15924524#Funding_request_for_Wikipedia.27s_15th_Birthday_Celebration">Wikipedia's 15th Birthday celebration</a> (January 2016)</li>
<li>funding Bengali Wikipedia community to conduct a <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests/Archive_2015_2#Requesting_Funds_for_Wikiacademy_at_Oxford_Book_stores_Kolkata" title="Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests/Archive 2015 2">workshop (Wikiacademy)</a> (August 2015), <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests/Archive_2015_2#Requesting_Funds_for_Wikiacademy_at_Oxford_Book_stores_Kolkata" title="Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests/Archive 2015 2">a meetup</a> (October 2015), and an "<a class="text external" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests&oldid=15924524#Request_For_Funding_of_In-depth_Meet-up_of_Bengali_Wikipedia_editor_community_in_Kolkata">in-depth Meet-up of Bengali Wikipedia editor community in Kolkata</a>" (June 2016)</li>
<li>helping Malayalam Wikimedia community to <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests/Archive_2015_2#Funding_request_for_Malayalam_wiki_Padana_Shibiram_.E2.80.93_Kozhikode_-2" title="Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests/Archive 2015 2">organize a meet-up at Kozhikode, Kerala</a> (July 2015), and <a class="text external" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests&oldid=15252159#Grant_request_for_Malayalam_Wikimedia_Anniversary_Outreach_program_.28Wikisangamotsavam_2015.29">Wikisangamotsavam 2015</a> (December)</li>
<li>support Telugu Wikipedians to conduct a photowalk and a joint Telugu-English Wikimedians’ meetup in Hyderabad (both in December)</li>
<li>supporting <a class="text external" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:CIS-A2K/Requests&oldid=15924524#Request_fund_for_two-day_workshop_on_Samskrit_Wikisource_-_2016">two-day workshop on Samskrit Wikisource - 2016</a></li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Lessons learnt</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a class="mw-disambig" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants" title="Grants">WMF grants opportunities</a> should be discussed and promoted amongst Indic Wikimedia communities.</li>
<li>Wikimedia communities must be encouraged to optimize in-kind support such as event venue, internet connectivity.</li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Challenges</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>We have continuously informed communities that a request (specially if it is a large one) should come to us at least 3-4 weeks before the event date(s). However we have received requests at the last moment and hence faced difficulties (such as time-pressure) reviewing and process these requests in time.</li>
<li>We ask communities to submit expenditure details and narrative report of an event soon after its completion. However, we have faced difficulties collecting the said records in time.</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Revenues_received_during_this_period_.286_month_for_progress_report.2C_12_months_for_impact_report.29">Revenues received during this period (6 month for progress report, 12 months for impact report)</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>Provide exchange rate used:</i></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>1 USD = 61.88 INR</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span id="fdc-progress-table-2"> </span> <i>Table 2</i> <b>Please report all spending in the currency of your grant unless US$ is requested.</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><i>Please also include any in-kind contributions or resources that you have received in this revenues table. This might include donated office space, services, prizes, food, etc. If you are to provide a monetary equivalent (e.g. $500 for food from Organization X for service Y), please include it in this table. Otherwise, please highlight the contribution, as well as the name of the partner, in the notes section.</i></li>
</ul>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dd>
<table class="vertical listing">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><b>Revenue source</b></td>
<td><b>Currency</b></td>
<td><b>Anticipated</b></td>
<td><b>Q1</b></td>
<td><b>Q2</b></td>
<td><b>Q3</b></td>
<td><b>Q4</b></td>
<td><b>Cumulative</b></td>
<td><b>Anticipated ($US)*</b></td>
<td><b>Cumulative ($US)*</b></td>
<td><b>Explanation of variances from plan</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>GSMA</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">263,783.00</td>
<td align="right">263,783.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">263,783.00</td>
<td align="right">4262.73</td>
<td align="right">4262.73</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Wikimedia Foundation</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">12,000,000.00</td>
<td align="right">6,997,845.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">4,998,082.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">11,995,927.00</td>
<td align="right">193,923.72</td>
<td align="right">193,857.90</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Kusuma Foundation</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">15,000,000.00</td>
<td align="right">7,500,000.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">7,500,000.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">15,000,000.00</td>
<td align="right">242,404.65</td>
<td align="right">242,404.65</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MacArthar Foundation</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">6,593,625.00</td>
<td align="right">6,593,625.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">6,593,625.00</td>
<td align="right">106,555.03</td>
<td align="right">106,555.03</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cybersteward Project</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">495,100.00</td>
<td align="right">495,100.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">495,100.00</td>
<td align="right">8,000.97</td>
<td align="right">8,000.97</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Big Data MF</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">4,578,734.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">4,578,734.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">4,578,734.00</td>
<td align="right">73,993.76</td>
<td align="right">73,993.76</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Privacy International</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">3,883,300.63</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">405,388.00</td>
<td align="right">3,477,912.63</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">3,883,300.63</td>
<td align="right">62,755.34</td>
<td align="right">62,755.34</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>IDRC</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">6,751,260.57</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">6,751,260.57</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">6,751,260.57</td>
<td align="right">109,102.47</td>
<td align="right">109,102.47</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The Mozilla Corporation</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">662,173.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">662,173.00</td>
<td align="right">662,173.00</td>
<td align="right">10,700.92</td>
<td align="right">10,700.92</td>
<td><br /></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</dd></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">* Provide estimates in US Dollars</p>
<table class="vertical listing" style="text-align: justify; ">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Grants</th> <th>Explanation</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>GSMA</td>
<td>This fund is allocated to CIS for GSMA project undertaken in collaboration with Privacy International. The research has sought to understand different legal and regulatory aspects of security and surveillance in India.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Wikimedia Foundation</td>
<td>Wikimedia Foundation has given this grant, as part of their APG, to work with the Wikimedia community of volunteers in India to expand Wikimedia’s Indic language free knowledge projects, including Wikipedia in Indic languages. In addition, the grant aims to generate improvements in India-relevant free knowledge in Wikimedia’s English projects and wider distribution of free knowledge within India.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Kusma Foundation Fund</td>
<td>Kusuma Foundation funds the core of CIS programmes.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Spending_during_this_period_.286_month_for_progress_report.2C_12_months_for_impact_report.29">Spending during this period (6 month for progress report, 12 months for impact report)</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Please use the exchange rate in your APG proposal.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span id="fdc-progress-table-3"> </span> <i>Table 3</i> <b>Please report all spending in the currency of your grant unless US$ is requested.</b></p>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dd>(The "budgeted" amount is the total planned for the year as submitted in your proposal form or your revised plan, and the "cumulative" column refers to the total spent to date this year. The "percentage spent to date" is the ratio of the cumulative amount spent over the budgeted amount.)</dd></dl> <dl style="text-align: justify; "><dd>
<table class="vertical listing">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><b>Expense</b></td>
<td><b>Currency</b></td>
<td><b>Budgeted</b></td>
<td><b>Q1</b></td>
<td><b>Q2</b></td>
<td><b>Q3</b></td>
<td><b>Q4</b></td>
<td><b>Cumulative</b></td>
<td><b>Budgeted ($US)*</b></td>
<td><b>Cumulative ($US)*</b></td>
<td><b>Percentage spent to date</b></td>
<td><b>Explanation of variances from plan</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Staff Cost</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">5,884,320.00</td>
<td align="right">986,800.00</td>
<td align="right">1,328,057.00</td>
<td align="right">1,695,815.00</td>
<td align="right">1,455,531.00</td>
<td align="right">5,466,203.00</td>
<td align="right">95,092.44</td>
<td align="right">88,335.54</td>
<td>92.9</td>
<td>Slightly under spent</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Staff Travel & Stay</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">985,000.00</td>
<td align="right">211,267.00</td>
<td align="right">162,566.00</td>
<td align="right">453,724.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">827,557.00</td>
<td align="right">15,917.91</td>
<td align="right">13,373.58</td>
<td>84.02</td>
<td>Due to inclusion of Program Associates presence staff travel has come down</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Volunteer Support</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">1,530,000.00</td>
<td align="right">41,847.00</td>
<td align="right">422,041.00</td>
<td align="right">100,631.00</td>
<td align="right">764,787.00</td>
<td align="right">1,329,306.00</td>
<td align="right">24,725.27</td>
<td align="right">21,482.00</td>
<td>86.89</td>
<td>Increased activities with the intervention of Program Associates</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Meetups</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">895,000.00</td>
<td align="right">84,285.00</td>
<td align="right">4,679.00</td>
<td align="right">151,904.00</td>
<td align="right">114,825.00</td>
<td align="right">355,693.00</td>
<td align="right">14,463.48</td>
<td align="right">5,748.11</td>
<td>39.74</td>
<td>A2K team has conducted Train-the-Trainer and Media Wiki Training during the last quarter of the grant period. These receipts will be updated in the final cumulative financial report</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Digitization</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">150,000.00</td>
<td align="right">5,250.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">10,250.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">15,500.00</td>
<td align="right">2,424.05</td>
<td align="right">250.48</td>
<td>39.74</td>
<td>Purchase of scanners to assist communities towards digitisation has been done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Equipment</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">80,000.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">170,000.00</td>
<td align="right">362,430.00</td>
<td align="right">122,660.00</td>
<td align="right">655,090.00</td>
<td align="right">1,292.82</td>
<td align="right">10,586.46</td>
<td>819</td>
<td>Essential equipment such as laptops, video camera and hard disks purchased for newly hired Program Associates and A2K staff</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Assistant/Intern</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">110,000.00</td>
<td align="right">20,000.00</td>
<td align="right">30,000.00</td>
<td align="right">110,000.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">160,000.00</td>
<td align="right">1,777.63</td>
<td align="right">2,585.65</td>
<td>145.45</td>
<td>Hiring of 3 Program Associates has resulted in over spending</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Consumables (Printing, Statinery, Swag)</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">460,000.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
<td align="right">7,433.74</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>A2K was unable to utilise these funds for publishing and distributing of Community Resources</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Miscellaneous</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">165,000.00</td>
<td align="right">89,003.00</td>
<td align="right">21,207.00</td>
<td align="right">50,978.00</td>
<td align="right">50,442.00</td>
<td align="right">211,630.00</td>
<td align="right">2,666.45</td>
<td align="right">3,420.01</td>
<td>128</td>
<td>Unanticipated expenses regarding orientation of PA</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design/Documentation & Research</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">50,000.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">20,950.00</td>
<td align="right">-</td>
<td align="right">16,508.00</td>
<td align="right">37,458.00</td>
<td align="right">808.02</td>
<td align="right">605.33</td>
<td>75</td>
<td>Optimal spending</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Program Advisor</td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">580,800.00</td>
<td align="right">132,000.00</td>
<td align="right">132,000.00</td>
<td align="right">132,000.00</td>
<td align="right">132,000.00</td>
<td align="right">528,000.00</td>
<td align="right">9,385.91</td>
<td align="right">8,532.64</td>
<td>90.9</td>
<td>Optimal spending</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>TOTAL</b></td>
<td>INR</td>
<td align="right">11,979,132.00</td>
<td align="right">1,570,452.00</td>
<td align="right">2,291,500.00</td>
<td align="right">3,067,732.00</td>
<td align="right">2,656,753.00</td>
<td align="right">9,586,437.00</td>
<td align="right">193,586.49</td>
<td align="right">154,919.80</td>
<td>80</td>
<td>Final Financial report will have the cumulative details.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</dd></dl>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">* Provide estimates in US Dollars</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Compliance">Compliance</span></h2>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Is_your_organization_compliant_with_the_terms_outlined_in_the_grant_agreement.3F">Is your organization compliant with the terms outlined in the grant agreement?</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As required in the grant agreement, please report any deviations from your grant proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement? Please answer "Yes" or "No".</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Grant funds as outlined in the grant agreement? Please answer "Yes" or "No".</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">References</h2>
<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; "><span class="reference-text">2016 TTT version was conducted between 15–17 June 2016, and in this impact report we are reporting only till 30 June 2016. Although we have seen positive impact after this year's TTT, we are not including these in this report.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text">Panigrahi, Subhashish. "<a class="text external" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/21/more-than-40-million-people-await-the-launch-of-odia-wikisource/">More Than 40 Million People Await the Launch of Odia Wikisource</a>". Wikimedia Blog (21 October 2014).</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text">[ Roali], an IME for Assamese language that is quite popular in the Assamese speakers, came live after long time. CIS-A2K has worked closely with the developer of this IME, some of the Assamese Wikipedia community members and Wikimedia Foundation's Language Engineering team in the entire process.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text">Broadening the scope of blogs CIS-A2K has contributed to the larger Indic communities has been a constant effort, though in a limited capacity. A few such blogs can be read here: <a class="text external" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.in/subhashish-panigrahi-/why-its-essential-to-grow-indian-language-wikipedias/" rel="nofollow">1</a>, <a class="text external" href="https://globalvoices.org/2015/08/29/googles-optical-character-recognition-software-now-works-with-all-south-asian-languages/" rel="nofollow">2</a>, and <a class="text external" href="http://www.thehoot.org/media-watch/digital-media/can-wikipedia-revive-dying-indian-languages-9186" rel="nofollow">3</a>.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text">In <a class="text external" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.in/subhashish-panigrahi-/an-innovation-thats-bringing-an-online-revolution-in-the-odia-l/" rel="nofollow">this</a> article, a community-led project for creating a script encoding converter for the Odia-language Wikimedia projects was highlighted. There were more publication in the Odia newspapers and the project was promoted on social media so that more people contribute using the Unicode standard. The latter will eventually help <a class="text external" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/the-telegraph-april-7-2016-anwesha-ambaly-odia-gets-more-space-in-e-world" rel="nofollow">spread</a> the language's reach on the Internet.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text"><span class="reference-text">CIS-A2K and type designer Pooja Saxena submitted a paper and presented a paper titled "<a class="text external" href="http://typoday.in/2016/spk_papers/Pooja_Saxena_Shubhasis%20Panigrahi_TypographyDay-2016.pdf" rel="nofollow">Bringing Ol Chiki to the digital world</a>" at the Typoday 2016, an annual conference in India to bring type designers and script experts under one roof. The presentation is about CIS-A2K's work in bringing a freely-licensed typeface for the <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ol_Chiki_alphabet" title="w:Ol Chiki alphabet">Ol Chiki script</a> that is used to write <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santali_language" title="w:Santali language">Santali</a>, an indigenous language spoken across several countries in South Asia.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
</ol>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Signature">Signature</span></h2>
<dl style="text-align: justify; "><dt>Once complete, please sign below with the usual four tildes.</dt></dl>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lahariyaniyathi" title="User:Lahariyaniyathi">Lahariyaniyathi</a> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lahariyaniyathi" title="User talk:Lahariyaniyathi">talk</a>) 17:01, 28 September 2016 (UTC)</li>
</ul>
<h1 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Resources">Resources</span></h1>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Resources_to_plan_for_measurement">Resources to plan for measurement</span></h2>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Global metrics are an important starting point for grantees when it comes to measuring programmatic impact (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Calculating_global_metrics" title="Grants:Learning patterns/Calculating global metrics">Learning Patterns</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Global_Metrics_Tutorial.pdf" title="File:Global Metrics Tutorial.pdf">Tutorial</a>) but don’t stop there.</li>
<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Logic_models" title="Grants:Evaluation/Logic models">Logic Models</a> provide a framework for mapping your pathway to impact through the cause and effect chain from inputs to outputs to outcomes. Develop a logic model to map out your theory of change and determine the metrics and measures for your programs.</li>
<li>Importantly, both <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Quantitative_vs_Qualitative" title="Grants:Evaluation/Quantitative vs Qualitative">qualitative and quantitative measures are important</a> so consider both as you determine <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Measures_for_evaluation" title="Grants:Evaluation/Measures for evaluation">measures for your evaluation</a> and be sure to <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Learning_modules/3Welcome" title="Grants:Evaluation/Learning modules/3Welcome">ask the right questions</a> to be sure to capture your program stories.</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; "><span class="mw-headline" id="Resources_for_storytelling">Resources for storytelling</span></h2>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Reporting_and_Storytelling" title="Grants:Evaluation/Reporting and Storytelling">WMF storytelling series</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MCruz_%28WMF%29/Sandbox/Storytelling_toolkit" title="User:MCruz (WMF)/Sandbox/Storytelling toolkit">toolkit (DRAFT)</a></li>
<li><a class="text external" href="http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/workshops/wideanglelens/children/part1.html" rel="nofollow">Online workshop on Storytelling</a>. By Frameworks institute
<ul>
<li>The origin of storytelling</li>
<li>Story frames, with a focus on news-worthiness.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="text external" href="http://workingnarratives.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Story-Guide.pdf" rel="nofollow">Reading guide: Storytelling and Social change</a>. By Working Narratives
<ul>
<li>The uses of the story.</li>
<li>Case studies.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="text external" href="https://philanthropy.com/article/3-Tips-for-Telling-Stories/228559" rel="nofollow">Blog: 3 Tips on telling stories that move people to action</a>. By Paul VanDeCarr (Working Narratives), on Philanthropy.com</li>
<li><a class="text external" href="http://www.sparknow.net/publications/SDC_Story_Guide_en.pdf" rel="nofollow">Building bridges using narrative techniques</a>. By Sparknow.net
<ul>
<li>Differences between a report and a story</li>
<li>Question guides and exercises.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="text external" href="http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/188.pdf" rel="nofollow">Guide: Tools for Knowledge and Learning</a>. By Overseas Development Institute (UK).
<ul>
<li>Developing a strategy</li>
<li>Collaboration mechanisms</li>
<li>Knowledge sharing and learning</li>
<li>Capturing and storing knowledge.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/grants-apg-proposals-2014-2015-round2-the-centre-for-internet-and-society-impact-report-form'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/grants-apg-proposals-2014-2015-round2-the-centre-for-internet-and-society-impact-report-form</a>
</p>
No publisherhasanWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-10-09T14:40:36ZBlog EntryDesign and the Open Knowledge Movement
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/saumyaa-naidu-design-and-the-open-knowledge-movement
<b>With the objective of connecting the open knowledge movement with design, the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society co-organised the Wikigraphists Bootcamp India 2018 with the Wikimedia Foundation during September 28-30, 2018 in New Delhi. The event was held at the School of Design at Ambedkar University Delhi. As part of the bootcamp, a panel discussion was held in order to bring together design practitioners, educators, open knowledge contributors, and design students to explore how design and open knowledge communities can engage with each other. In this post, Saumyaa Naidu shares the learnings from the panel discussion aimed at exploring the potential collaborations between design and the open knowledge movement.</b>
<p> </p>
<h4><a href="#1">Introduction</a></h4>
<h4><a href="#2">Exchange between Design Academics and Open Knowledge</a></h4>
<h4><a href="#3">Potential Means of Engagement with Open Knowledge in Design Practice</a></h4>
<h4><a href="#4">Applications of Open Knowledge in Design Education</a></h4>
<h4><a href="#5">Conclusion</a></h4>
<hr />
<h2 id="1">Introduction</h2>
<p>Design has historically been functioning in a closed paradigm, both with regard to practice and education. The design process, resources, and products are largely proprietary and limit who can access them. On the other hand, increased use of digital technology offers the potential for greater access and knowledge sharing. In this setting, a dialogue on design and openness becomes essential. There is a need to build sensitivity among designers towards <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_knowledge">open knowledge</a> and open access practices. Such an exchange can not only allow for design resources and products to be available in the open domain, but also help designers build an extensive shared knowledge base.</p>
<p>With the objective of connecting the open knowledge movement with design, the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society co-organised the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikigraphists_Bootcamp_(2018_India)">Wikigraphists Bootcamp India 2018</a> with the <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/">Wikimedia Foundation</a> from 28th to 30th September, 2018 in New Delhi. The event was held at the School of Design at Ambedkar University Delhi. As part of the bootcamp, a panel discussion was held in order to bring together design practitioners, educators, open knowledge contributors, and design students to explore how design and open knowledge communities can engage with each other.</p>
<p>The discussion was preceded by an introduction to the open knowledge movement and its potential in creating access and inclusion, by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Satdeep_Gill">Satdeep Gill</a>. Satdeep is a community outreach coordinator for India at the Wikimedia Foundation. He is also one of the founding members of <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians">Punjabi Wikimedians</a> User Group. Satdeep was the programme leader for the Wikiconference India in 2016. The introduction provided a brief history of copyrights and the beginning of the copyleft movement. It discussed creative commons licensing and the role of Wikipedia in the open knowledge movement.</p>
<p>The panel included <a href="http://www.aud.ac.in/faculty/permanent-faculty/detail/137">Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan</a>, <a href="http://www.matratype.com/">Pooja Saxena</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal">Shyamal</a>. Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan is the dean at the <a href="http://www.aud.ac.in/academic/schools/sd">School of Design in Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD)</a>. Her research has been on multiple areas such as history of craft and design, and design education in India. Her practice focuses on social communication design. Pooja Saxena is a typeface and graphic designer whose work centres on multi-script design. She has designed an Ol Chiki typeface for Santali language which is available for free and open use. Pooja also teaches typography at several design schools including <a href="https://pearlacademy.com/">Pearl Academy</a>, <a href="http://www.nid.edu/index.html">National Institute of Design</a>, and <a href="http://srishti.ac.in/">Srishti school of Art, Design, and Technology</a>. Shyamal is an independent researcher and an ornithologist. He has been contributing to Wikipedia for over fifteen years now. In addition to his contributions about the biodiversity of birds, he has also created several illustrations relating to the same. The panel was moderated by Saumyaa Naidu, a designer and researcher at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).</p>
<p>The discussion was aimed at addressing three primary questions around design and the open knowledge movement; how academic materials in design inform unstructured or open knowledge spaces and in what ways do these unstructured spaces come back into design education?, what are the potential means of engagement with open knowledge in design practice?, and in what ways can it be applied in design education?<br /><br /></p>
<h2 id="2">Exchange between Design Academics and Open Knowledge</h2>
<p>The discussion began with an enquiry into the challenges faced in the design of knowledge production and the knowledge production of design. It was directed at understanding the various ways in which design education and academia interact with open knowledge. Prof. Suchitra responded by saying that it is still early days for such an interaction to take place as the discipline of design itself is very proprietary in its approach. The work created in different areas of design is often guarded. Locating the discussion at the School of Design in AUD, she suggested that the Social Design course, which looks at the social application of design, believes in socially produced knowledge and contributing to it. However, the university is constrained by the academic environment which does not facilitate the open exchange of knowledge. There is a culture of copyright and protection of work in academia, and heavy funding is required for journal subscriptions. There is an imbalanced gatekeeping of knowledge as countries like India, which have weaker currencies, cannot access this knowledge or contribute to it. The social design community, a small community yet, is interested in making this knowledge freely accessible, in community participation, in co-designing, and in challenge the idea of one ‘super-designer’ who gets all the credit.</p>
<p>Open knowledge spaces such as Wikipedia often make their way into classrooms when students use these resources for assignments. It was pointed out by Prof. Suchitra that there is a lack of regard among students for giving due attribution to material taken from such platforms. Social Sciences universities also consider Wikipedia as an unreliable source, and discourage its use. There is a need to build the culture of knowledge sharing, borrowing, and contribution. She believes that this should be initiated at the level of school education, and not just design schools, so it is internalised at an early stage. She also shared an epistemological concern regarding such a cultural shift in design as it is commonly believed that the knowledge designers produce belongs to them and their livelihoods are connected to it. Hence, open knowledge and open source are antithetical to the profession. This means that the profession itself has to be imagined differently. The social design programme, in this regard, is trying to ensure that when students create work based on interactions with a community, also go back and present it to the community. This is to say that the work produced cannot be exclusively owned by the designers.</p>
<p>The open knowledge movement in India is closely tied to accessibility of information in Indian languages. The availability of a design knowledge base in Indian languages was discussed in this context. Prof. Suchitra explained that most design education in India is in English and is borrowed from another cultural and geographical setting. Design is a discipline of making, and making has its own language. In that sense, the act and content of design transcends language. But, it is the pedagogy which is held by language. The act of making, which is ubiquitous, and is done naturally by everybody, gets held back when it comes to the transmission in different languages. There can be sanskritised words for design terminology, but the vocabulary of everyday use should be applied to represent this knowledge. The School of Design is looking for ways in which important and more provocative texts in design can be made available in other Indian languages. When students are exploring a career in design and they want to learn about it, the information about courses, programmes, and universities should also be available in their language.</p>
<p>The students at AUD recently demanded that education at the university be provided in multiple languages. Since AUD is funded by the Delhi state government, the students want the medium of instruction to include languages of the state (Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi) apart from English. However, in order to accomplish this, the university would require multilingual teachers. At a personal level, Prof. Suchitra feels that the medium of instruction cannot be monolingual, and that it is good to be multilingual. There is also the conflict that it doesn’t do justice to either languages, and there is no neat answer yet. She believes that technology provides some answers in the sense that students can access the material through translations in whichever language they prefer. Being located in Delhi, the university attracts students from all parts of the country, so it needs to be multilingual in different ways. Technology can intervene and provide a layer by which access can be given in the language of one’s choice. She inferred that this is not a question of one or two languages, but of languages everywhere.<br /><br /></p>
<h2 id="3">Potential Means of Engagement with Open Knowledge in Design Practice</h2>
<p>Presently, there is limited participation from design practitioners on open knowledge platforms. From the perspective of a design practitioner and educator, Pooja Saxena explained that apart from Wikipedia, designers use The Noun Project, which offers both free and paid ways to use icons. She mentioned how students also use this platform but it appears that they are not as interested in contributing to it. They are guarded about the work they create but are fine with using someone else’s work that is available for free. Pooja suggested a much needed change in the understanding that open knowledge simply means that it is open for use. It must be seen as a community which one needs to engage with in whichever capacity and give back to. Agreeing with Prof. Suchitra, Pooja also observed that students fail to give fair attribution when any work is available for free. There is a lack of training and communication around attribution among designers. Regarding open source softwares meant for image making and creating illustrations, Pooja said that despite her several attempts of using them, she has always gone back to proprietary softwares. She believes that there are not enough people contributing to making these open source applications better to work with. A middle path she recommended for designers is creating work in formats which can be edited across applications, so that the work created can be built upon in any application, and is not bound by a proprietary software.</p>
<p>As an experienced Wikipedian, Shyamal also stressed upon the idea of finding ways to productively give back to the open knowledge community. He talked about the opportunities that design students have in terms of creating quality images and graphics, and making them available for public use. An example of such an opportunity could be creating clipart or icons that can be used for roadside signages or other such public resources. Another possibility he proposed was publishing rough drafts or discarded work on platforms like Wikipedia, so it can be refined and used by others. It is not well known that aside from the textual part of Wikipedia, there exists a larger environment which includes projects like Wikidata, which is a semantic database, and Wikimedia Commons, which is meant for a variety of media such as images, video, audio, and even 3D models now. This offers a variety of options to designers to make their work available for open use. Another aspect that Shyamal brought attention to in this regard is to make the work available in a way that it can be easily found by others, by effectively using metadata and writing appropriate descriptions.</p>
<p>A relevant example of engagement of design with the open knowledge community was shared by Pooja through her type design project. This included designing a typeface family for the Ol Chiki script, which is used to write in the Santhali language. The project was initiated by Subhashish Panigrahi at CIS in order to set up the Santhali Wikipedia. But, at the time there were no unicode compliant fonts available for Ol Chiki. This was a clear example of how a design intervention in the form of a typeface could lead to knowledge being shared and possibly even created in the future. The project was then funded by the Access to Knowledge programme at CIS. Pooja described the process of designing the typeface. She mentioned that even though the Santhali language is spoken by over 6 million people, Ol Chiki is not a commonly used script. The script itself was invented less than a hundred years ago, which meant that there is little documentation available of the script to look at. The team then engaged with the community to understand how they would like the letters to look like, and whether the letters in the font were correct. This was done through comprehensive feedback forms to test the letters and ask specific questions around their form and placement. The exercise was repeated a number of times to get accurate letters.</p>
<p>Through this process, Pooja made a key observation on perfection. Designers are often trained to share or show their work only when they think it is perfect. But, in the case of the typeface, it was impossible to achieve something even close to being finished without showing it and seeking help from the community. The project also led to inspiring a design student from the National Institute of Design, who belongs to the Santhal community, to create letters in Ol Chiki script as part of the <a href="http://www.36daysoftype.com/">‘36 days of type’</a> challenge on Instagram. The typeface thus, can contribute towards such projects as well. Pooja concluded that the typeface being available for free can also lead to students making a version of it that serves their purpose better.</p>
<p>Further on open typefaces for Indian languages, Shyamal spoke about the several issues regarding the use of Indian languages, specific to Wikipedia and in general as well. He correlated the lack of academic disciplines in Indian languages with the lack of vocabulary of technical terms. Several people also oppose borrowing words from other languages. In an example of needing to translate the labels of an illustration of a four-stroke engine into an Indian language, the engineer would not know the terms in that language, and the language expert will not know enough about engineering. Shyamal suggested transliterating English words as a first step, so that somebody who doesn’t know English can understand what the word sounds like. Another technical concern is the use of open source fonts of Indian languages for better compatibility on Wikimedia Commons. The platform replaces proprietary fonts with equivalent open source ones during the process of uploading. This changes the typesetting in the illustration in terms of spacing between the letters and sentences, and the resulting design can end up looking different from the intended one. Hence, it is important to include identification and use of open source fonts as part of the learning process in design.</p>
<p>Shyamal further talked about the need to create more awareness about copyright. He explained that the fact that anything we create is automatically copyrighted is not really understood by most people. People posting images on Facebook and Instagram would allow others to use their work when asked, but would hesitate to give a written permission. It would be useful to license out the work. This lack of copyright awareness hinders the creation of a vast visual database on Wikimedia Commons. There is little visual information available online about objects, monuments, maps, places, etc. in India. The advantage of using systems like Wikipedia is that you can geotag places, you can semantically describe them so that people who speak other languages can find that content. The value of availability of such content online for an outsider is not well understood yet. As a practice, when learning something new, Shyamal himself tries to add it on Wikipedia or on related projects, so that it can be of use to anyone else looking for it as well.</p>
<p>On encouraging designers to contribute to open knowledge, Pooja advised that designers can contribute through side projects or self-initiated projects as they are not looking to make any money from them to begin with, and would be able to share the work for free. These side projects can take the form of resources or tools that other people can use to build something else. She also pointed out that it is not necessary that designers cannot get paid to do open work, and shared the example of the Ol Chiki typeface, which was paid for by a patron. There are also organisations that commission projects which are supposed to be available for free use because those organisations need that product to be available for free. Google fonts for example, commissions the typefaces to designers which are eventually available as free and open fonts. It is important for designers to be aware that such opportunities exist, and that they need to be sought.<br /><br /></p>
<h2 id="4">Applications of Open Knowledge in Design Education</h2>
<p>The discussion led to several suggestions on involving design students in the open knowledge movement. Pooja recommended that students can be encouraged to make their assignments available on Wikimedia Commons. Design students are often expected to work on projects that address problems that exist in the real world. In most cases, these projects remain with the students and not get implemented in the real world. If such projects were available on open platforms like Wikimedia Commons, they can be taken forward by others who are tackling the same concerns. It is also something that design students would benefit from because their work will be publicly available.</p>
<p>In order to address the disregard for attributions pointed out earlier, Prof. Suchitra stressed upon the need to build a culture among design students to attribute fairly. This would allow for acceptable acknowledgement to someone who has produced work and contributed it to the open domain. She added that this is being initiated in other design spaces such as the Decolonise Design group, which some design faculties are a part of. The group looks at ways of finding different cultural anchors for design. One such project is where design faculties have gotten together to share design assignments, in order to see what kind of assignments we set in the classroom for teaching various kinds of concepts in design. The faculties are trying to form an international platform where teaching methods can be shared and a bank of design assignments can be created. These methods and assignments are otherwise considered proprietary.</p>
<p>Prof. Suchitra also talked about the onus on public funded educational institutions to make their work available on open platforms, at least in projects which have a larger use. The Industrial Design Centre (IDC), Powai already has a portal on which design related educational material is available for anyone who is interested. They offer an online course in design which anyone can register for and attend. It is only for the certification at the end of the course, that one needs to pay to take an exam. Design courses otherwise tend to be quite expensive. She mentioned that the School of Design at AUD has been contemplating sharing the thesis work that students produce on <a href="https://www.academia.edu/">Academia</a>, a platform for academics to share research papers, where it can be downloaded for free. This allows for the work to be viewed by people outside the school, which is a significant step for young designers. Design as a profession fundamentally does not allow sharing, and this certainly needs to change. She gave the example of textiles, where the traditional artworks and motifs are picked up from different sources and placed on fabrics. Such reuse borders on unethical practice. Therefore, we need to identify the boundaries of open source. The ethical aspects of it need to be opened up and discussed, otherwise it can lead to asymmetrical knowledge practices. The attribution or acknowledgement that the work individually or culturally belongs to somebody, needs to be recognised.</p>
<p>On the learning by doing approach in design education, Pooja raised the concern that there is a lack of attention towards ‘learning by reading’. Design related reading materials are not available on open platforms and in different languages. She suggested that even if the readings are available in English, it is also useful for them to be available in a vocabulary that is more acceptable for someone for whom it is not their first language. Further, the ‘doing’ is also framed by a certain perspective, and often that perspective is quite closed. It does not take into account where the students is coming from. For example, a branding assignment for a product for new mothers does not consider how eighteen year old students would understand the product without any interaction with the users. It doesn’t ask why does it have to be branding to begin with. It also limits the objective to ‘selling something’ while there are other ways in which design can intervene. In the assignments where students engage with a community, there is often a clear asymmetry between the students and the people they are designing for. There is a vast gap in the knowledge and experience shared by the two. Consequently, students are forced to either assert themselves in this community or misrepresent themselves. This also takes away from students wanting to share their work on open platforms. Pooja recommended that they would be more willing to put the work out in the open when they are working with their own community because they can then see how it affects people in a much more direct way.<br /><br /></p>
<h2 id="5">Conclusion</h2>
<p>The discussion brought forward various intersections in design and open knowledge, and the possible ways in which the two can lend to each other. Broader interventions such as a cultural shift in design around sharing work and discussing its ethical aspects, availability of academic material in design on open platforms and in different Indian languages, sensitivity around fair attribution and copyrights among designers, and designers seeking out or self initiating projects that contribute to the open domain were discussed. In terms of specific steps, ideas including design practitioners creating works in formats which are editable on open applications, adding more visual content on platforms like Wikimedia Commons, creating and using more open typefaces in Indian languages, and students sharing their assignments on open platforms were considered. Other ways of engagement with design education could be through internships and workshops that demonstrate the need for open knowledge systems.</p>
<p>During the interaction with the audience, another key concern was brought up by Govind Sivan, a student at the School of Design at AUD. He spoke about the prevalent approach in design schools of giving primary importance to originality. Students work towards thinking of unique ideas and any similarity between their own and a classmate’s assignment is seen as a failure of creativity. Such an approach goes on to curb shared knowledge and collaborative working, and needs to be changed in order to make way for openness in design. Prof. Suchitra also advised that there is more value to design in thinking of it as a collaborative project.</p>
<p>Design is also gradually opening up its process to include the people being designed for through open research methods such as co-design and participatory design. All aspects of a design process such as need identification, data gathering, and the end product can be <a href="https://www.designsociety.org/publication/34842/Three+layers+of+openness+in+design%3A+Examining+the+open+paradigm+in+design+research">conceptualised</a> for openness. These directions can be explored by both designers and the open knowledge community for the creation of a greater and more accessible knowledge base.</p>
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<b>Tory Read, a professional researcher, writer and journalist was commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation to create a vivid description of its work in India. This was done in the interest of transparency and to ensure that it captured lessons from this new approach. Tory travelled for a couple of weeks across Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and some towns in Kerala — attending community meet-ups speaking with a host of individual community members in these cities. Tory has given a journalistic account and analysis, based on document review, interviews and observations conducted between November 2010 and June 2011, including 16 days in India in June 2011.The views expressed herein are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Wikimedia Foundation.</b>
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