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Wikipedia Training in Telugu for Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-training-in-telugu-for-b-r-ambedkar-open-university
<b>CIS-A2K is conducting a Wikipedia training programme in Telugu for the faculty of Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Open University (Dr. BRAOU) in Hyderabad on September 5 and 6, 2013. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This is done as part of the "ICT and eContent" workshop organized by the Centre for Staff Training and Development of Dr. BRAOU for their faculty. T. Vishnu Vardhan Program Director, CIS-A2K has been invited to teach a module on "Knowledge and Openness in the Digital Era" as part of which this Wikipedia training programme was also organized.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Details in <a class="external-link" 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%B6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B7%E0%B0%A3_%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B0%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%8D/%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%8D2">Telugu originally published in the metapage on Wikipedia</a> is reproduced below:</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">వికీపీడియా:శిక్షణ శిబిరం/హైదరాబాద్/హైదరాబాద్2</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%95:Contributions/14.139.86.130" title="ప్రత్యేక:Contributions/14.139.86.130">14.139.86.130</a> 05:32, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)పరాంకుశం వెంకట రమణ==తేదీ - స్థలం== సెప్టెంబరు, 5 2013; <a class="text external" href="http://www.braou.ac.in/%7C" rel="nofollow">డాక్టర్ బి.ఆర్. అంబేద్కర్ సార్వత్రిక విశ్వవిద్యాలయం</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>సమయం<br /></b>పొ. 10.00 నుండి మ. 1.00 వరకు</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">నిర్వహణ సంస్థ/లు</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="extiw" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge" title="m:India Access To Knowledge">CISA2K</a> డాక్టర్ బి.ఆర్. అంబేద్కర్ సార్వత్రిక విశ్వవిద్యాలయం, హైదరబాద్ వారి సంస్థాగత భాగస్వామ్యంతో. ఈ శిబిరం Centre for Staff Training and Development (Dr. BRAOU) వారు 10 రోజులపాటు విశ్వవిద్యాలయం యొక్క ఉపాధ్యాయుల కొరకు నిర్వహించిన ‘ICT and e-Content Development’ Workshop లో భాగంగా నిర్వహించబడినది.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">నిర్వాహకులు</p>
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<li><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Visdaviva" title="వాడుకరి:Visdaviva">విష్ణు</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Visdaviva" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Visdaviva">చర్చ</a>)</li>
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<p>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Elkasudharani" title="వాడుకరి:Elkasudharani">Elkasudharani</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Elkasudharani" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Elkasudharani">చర్చ</a>) 05:37, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)==Dr.BRAOU లోని కార్యక్రమ సంధానకర్తలు==</p>
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<li><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghanta_Chakrapani" title="w:Ghanta Chakrapani">ఘంటా చక్రపాణి</a> (డైరెక్టర్, Centre for Staff Training and Development, డాక్టర్ బి.ఆర్. అంబేద్కర్ సార్వత్రిక విశ్వవిద్యాలయం)</li>
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<p>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%95:Contributions/14.139.86.130" title="ప్రత్యేక:Contributions/14.139.86.130">14.139.86.130</a> 05:35, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</p>
<p>శిక్షణ శిబిరానికి హజరైన సభ్యులు</p>
<p>--<a class="new" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Pallavisudheer&action=edit&redlink=1" title="వాడుకరి:Pallavisudheer (పుట లేదు)">Pallavisudheer</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Pallavisudheer" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Pallavisudheer">చర్చ</a>) 05:31, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</p>
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<li>సరోజ --<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Drgsaroja" title="వాడుకరి:Drgsaroja">Drgsaroja</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Drgsaroja" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Drgsaroja">చర్చ</a>) 05:27, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
<li>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Rajani_nellutla" title="వాడుకరి:Rajani nellutla">Rajani nellutla</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Rajani_nellutla" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Rajani nellutla">చర్చ</a>) 05:29, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
<li>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Kiranmayi.ys" title="వాడుకరి:Kiranmayi.ys">Kiranmayi.ys</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Kiranmayi.ys" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Kiranmayi.ys">చర్చ</a>) 05:30, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
<li>--<a class="new" href="https://te.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Vasuvaddanam&action=edit&redlink=1" title="వాడుకరి:Vasuvaddanam (పుట లేదు)">Vasuvaddanam</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Vasuvaddanam" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Vasuvaddanam">చర్చ</a>) 05:31, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
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<p>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Gpushpa" title="వాడుకరి:Gpushpa">Gpushpa</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Gpushpa" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Gpushpa">చర్చ</a>) 05:32, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC) --<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Drgsaroja" title="వాడుకరి:Drgsaroja">Drgsaroja</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Drgsaroja" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Drgsaroja">చర్చ</a>) 05:34, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</p>
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<li>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Boju_srinivas" title="వాడుకరి:Boju srinivas">Boju srinivas</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Boju_srinivas" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Boju srinivas">చర్చ</a>) 05:36, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
<li>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Shridhevie" title="వాడుకరి:Shridhevie">Shridhevie</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Shridhevie" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Shridhevie">చర్చ</a>) 05:37, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
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<p>పై వరసలో పేరు చేర్చండి లేక సంతకం చేయండి></p>
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<li>--[[--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%95:Contributions/14.139.86.130" title="ప్రత్యేక:Contributions/14.139.86.130">14.139.86.130</a> 05:35, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)]]</li>
<li>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Elkasudharani" title="వాడుకరి:Elkasudharani">Elkasudharani</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Elkasudharani" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Elkasudharani">చర్చ</a>) 05:37, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
<li>--<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:Pvramana24" title="వాడుకరి:Pvramana24">Pvramana24</a> (<a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Pvramana24" title="వాడుకరి చర్చ:Pvramana24">చర్చ</a>) 05:37, 6 సెప్టెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">నివేదిక</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">చిత్రమాలిక</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-training-in-telugu-for-b-r-ambedkar-open-university'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-training-in-telugu-for-b-r-ambedkar-open-university</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2013-09-06T05:51:49ZEventWikipedia in St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-in-st-xaviers-college-goa
<b>A three hour Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi, in the morning of December 14, 2012 at St. Xavier's College in Mapusa, Goa. Over 30 participants attended the session.</b>
<p>The workshop started with a short introductory presentation followed by a learning session on how to edit the Wikipedia. Since there were lesser number of computers, participants were divided in groups of 2 or 3 at the maximum. Each group made at least 3 edits with the help of volunteers present in the room.</p>
<p>A follow up session will be organised in January or February of 2013 to organise an edit-a-thon for all the interested and enthusiastic participants.</p>
<p>A special thanks to everyone who helped organising this event, especially to Harriet Vidyasagar, Frederick, Debanjan - all from the Wikipedia family and Nitin Volvoikar, the Head of Journalism Department from <a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Xavier%27s_College,_Mapusa,_Goa">St. Xavier's</a>.</p>
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<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/GroupSt.Xavier.png" alt="St.Xavier GLAM" class="image-inline" title="St.Xavier GLAM" /></th>
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<td>Above is a picture of the whole group of participants at the St.Xavier's College at Mapusa, Goa</td>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-in-st-xaviers-college-goa'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-in-st-xaviers-college-goa</a>
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No publishernitikaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-07-26T11:33:29ZBlog EntryWikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore to bring Tulu Wikipedia live
https://cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore-to-bring-tulu-wikipedia-live
<b>A Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised in Mangalore, Karnataka this 14th to encourage more Tulu-language speakers to contribute to Tulu Wikipedia. Tulu Wikipedia is is currently in the Incubator but the enthusiastic editor community is putting their best effort to bring it live out of Incubator. This edit-a-thon is one of the many activities the Tulu Wikimedia community has organised.</b>
<p>30 Wikipedia editors participated and created about 89 new articles. Interestingly, 12 of these 30 participants crossed more than 10 edits. Some of the new participants faced problems with using the<a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods#Kannada"> input methods</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup">Wiki-markup</a>. It is important to note that because of the lack of addition of Tulu-alphabet code points in the Unicode chart, and the speakers being well conversant in Kannada, they are using Kannada script for Tulu Wikipedia Incubator project. There is a plan to organise a monthly meetup and/or edit-a-thon to continue the momentum these editors have brought in. <a href="http://www.tuluacademy.org/en/">Tulu Sahitya Academy</a> has kindly supported the event.</p>
More details in the <a class="external-link" href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tcy/ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಕಜ್ಜಕೊಟ್ಯ-5">event page</a> (in Tulu).
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore-to-bring-tulu-wikipedia-live'>https://cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore-to-bring-tulu-wikipedia-live</a>
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No publisherpavanajaWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessTulu Wikipedia2015-09-15T09:07:24ZBlog EntryWikipedia comes to Hyderabad!
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-hyderabad-report
<b>This post is a report on the series of Wikipedia meets organized in the city of Hyderabad on September 29-30, 2012. These workshops were a a part of the larger effort to help Wikipedia contributors in the same city to meet each other and strengthen the local community. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The city of Hyderabad is not only an IT hub but also home to many English and Indian language Wikipedians. In a recent series of weekend workshops and meet-ups conducted within the city, I had the opportunity to interact with many of them. We conducted a Wikipedia workshop at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad, an Odia Wikipedia workshop as well as a general Wikipedia workshop for people interested in contributing to all language Wikipedias. I would like to convey my gratitude to the Computer Science department students at BITS, Hyderabad, Odia Wikipedians Swetapadma and Amaresh and English Wikipedians Tausif and Abhijith for making these events happen despite festivities and protests in the city.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">To provide a brief report on the events, the BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad workshop was organized as a general introduction to Wikipedia. The event was organized with the support of the Computer Science department at the college and saw a presence of more than 60 students. It was 2 hour session where 6 students created their Wikipedia user accounts and entered their names on the BITS project page. They were also shown how Wikis work – live and global.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Students were encouraged to make changes to their college article and they discovered how to view recent changes, page views and other functions. It was a particularly informative session because majority of the group did not know that Wikipedia articles are written by common people from all walks of life! The session ended with a proposal to start a Wiki club for their college. The Odia Wikipedia meetup organized on the same day registered 11 participants while the general meetup on the next day had over 20 participants. In all three workshops, the majority of participants were not aware how one could contribute to Wikipedia articles.</p>
<h3>Next steps:</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It was great to see existing Wikipedians discuss the idea of having a Hyderabad SIG (special interest group) to conduct regular meetings, workshops, photo walks and more! Since the participants have shared their email-IDs, we will stay in touch and inform them about upcoming Telugu and English editing workshops. Students at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad have also requested a Wikipedia workshop and hackathon for their upcoming techfest this month. A Telugu Wikipedia workshop has been proposed for the second week of October.</p>
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<p>For more information on how to conduct a Wikipedia workshop in your city, you could contact <a href="mailto:noopur@cis-india.org">noopur@cis-india.org</a></p>
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<p>There was newspaper coverage about this event:</p>
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<li>Wiki Meetup, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/drumming-session/article3943855.ece">Hindu</a>, September 28, 2012</li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-hyderabad-report'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikipedia-hyderabad-report</a>
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No publishernoopurAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-02-13T11:40:06ZBlog EntryWikimania 2013: Wikipedians represent Indian Languages in Hong Kong
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikimania2013
<b>The 7th, 8th and 9th of August 2013 saw over 600 Wikipedians across the world participating Wikimania at Hong Kong. The three day annual international conference for users and contributors of Wikipedia brought many debates about open educational research, open source technologies, gender gap, documenting the history of mankind in a free and open platform like Wikipedia and its sister sites in collaboration with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums and all of these in 286 world languages. More and more volunteers are joining this movement and it is expanding the media of accessing and disseminating knowledge.
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-0678dac9-1578-bf89-b289-18949346d9c2">Here is a school teacher who lives in Salem, a small industrial town in Tamil Nadu. There lives a school teacher who was born in Sri Lanka and moved to Hong Kong long back. They have never met in real life but have been helping in correcting each others mistakes in Wikipedia articles. These two school teachers have taken their knowledge from the four walls of the classrooms to a larger audience of</span><a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org"><span> Tamil Wikipedia</span></a><span>. I then realized how language brings people together. This is what I heard from my inner voice when I met </span><a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D:Parvathisri"><span>S.Parvathi </span></a><span>from Salem and </span><a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D:HK_Arun"><span>H.K.Arun</span></a><span> from Sri Lanka during </span><a href="http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org"><span>Hong Kong Wikimania 2013</span></a><span>, an annual gathering of Wikipedia contributors.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-0678dac9-1579-0dad-9740-452c9aae519f">Many still are not aware the existence of Wikipedias in Indian languages. There are 20 South Asian language Wikipedias with more than 2 lakh articles contributed totally by about 1500 voluntary contributors in all these languages. There are hundred more contributors like Arun and Parvathi who create new articles in Tamil Wikipedia, and rectify mistakes by new contributors.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian"><span>Wikipedians</span></a><span> are all volunteers who devote their time for building the greatest repository of knowledge on the internet. Wikipedia articles are free from any copyright infringement so anyone can freely access, share, make modifications and redistribute them. Wikipedians have been able to create this ecosystem of nurturing new editors by teaching them the process of encyclopaedic content generation which not only polishes their writing abilities, but strengthens their communication skills. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>Wikimania is fun, it brings wikipedians across the globe speaking diverse languages under one roof where they meet each other and share their ideas and collaborate. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>Over 600 wikipedians from various countries participated in this year’s Wikimania including </span><a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2013#Attendees"><span>16 from India</span></a><span>. In the open world of Wikipedia collaboration always happen beyond borders; one </span><a href="http://ne.wikipedia.org"><span>Nepali</span></a><span> and four </span><a href="http://bn.wikipedia.org"><span>Bangla</span></a><span> Wikipedians from Bangladesh also joined the Indian Wikipedians to rejoice the triumph of the effort of all the volunteers from the subcontinent. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>The fun was not just limited in creating a wall of their dreams, ambitions and action plans to take their own language Wikipedia to more people or discuss how they could write articles that are important to each others languages. It went upto helping each other to fix problems in typing Indian languages and discussing success stories of successful workshops that resulted bring more student </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-0678dac9-1579-9d5b-64e9-70790c72feab">contributors. </span><a href="http://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE:Ganesh_Paudel"><span>Ganesh Paudel</span></a><span>, a Wikipedian from Nepal says, "My hometown is very close to India and we share the same script with Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit and Konkani. India and Nepal both have sizable population speaking Nepali, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Awadhi, Sanskrit, Bangla and Hindi. I’m personally interested to collaborate with Indians speaking these languages." I could see the glow in his eyes when he wrote and explained the beautiful curvature of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranjana_alphabet"><span>Ranjana</span></a><span> script to me.</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian"><span> Tinu Cherian</span></a><span>, another long term Wikipedian who was attending Wikimania for the third time was excitedly live-tweeting the happening at Hong Kong. When I asked how he is feeling after a short break he unfolded his hands and proudly said, "Wikipedia is like religion to me, once a Wikipedian, you are always a Wikipedian!". </span><a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D:Netha_Hussain"><span>Netha</span></a><span>, a medical college student from Kerala spoke about bringing more women to contribute to Wikipedia. She calls </span><a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D:Kavya_Manohar"><span>Kavya</span></a><span>, a college lecturer and Malayalam wikipedian who spoke about </span><a href="https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Women_and_non-conventional_education_-_A_study_from_Indian_cultural_context"><span>Women and non-conventional education</span></a><span> as one of the gems she has discovered in her personal journey. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><span>Wikimania also has Sengai Podhuvan, one of the oldest Indian Wikipedians. His </span><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/L11_1222_R5_DS/en/US"><span>appeal for Wikipedia fundraising</span></a><span> brought a lot of donations to Wikimedia Foundation. Dr. Podhuvan shared his story of learning using computer, Tamil typing and writing articles about Wikimania this year brought many academicians, education researchers, policy change makers and open source and open knowledge activists across the world to share their ideas, activities going across the world even while </span><a href="https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Women_and_non-conventional_education_-_A_study_from_Indian_cultural_context"><span>enjoying dinner</span></a><span> in the </span><a href="http://www.sky100.com.hk/"><span>100th floor</span></a><span>. </span></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikimania2013'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wikimania2013</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-13T06:03:03ZBlog EntryWiki Women's Day in Goa
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-womens-day-in-goa
<b>International Women's Day (IWD), also called International Working Women's Day, is celebrated on March 8, every year. There were a series of Wikipedia events organised this year with the aim of increasing participation of women contributing to Wikipedia. One such event was organised by the Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet and Society and the Wikimedia India Chapter at the Nirmala Institute of Education (NIE), a Secondary Teacher Education College in Panaji, Goa on March 8, 2013.</b>
<p align="JUSTIFY">NIE is a respected institution providing pre- and in-service teacher education to thousands of teachers and about a 100 of them (99 per cent of the participants being women) joined in to learn Wikipedia editing and increase women related content on Wikipedia.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">Rohini Lakshane from the Wikimedia India Chapter and Nitika Tandon from Access to Knowledge, CIS lead the session jointly. The session began with the introduction of Wikipedia, Wikipedia volunteers, the five pillars, motivation of volunteers to contribute to Wikipedia tirelessly and a brief of different activities that are being organised to strengthen the Wikimedia movement in India. Most of the students and faculty members were curious about two main things:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">How to integrate the new community of editors in Goa with the larger Indian and global community?</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">How can teachers and students use Wikipedia to advance students' knowledge and add useful content to Wikipedia?</li>
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<p>To answer the first part, participants were informed about regular Wiki meet ups in different cities, several city based and language based Wikipedia mailing lists where one can find volunteer friends, active use of user talk pages and village pumps, Wikimedia India Facebook page amongst many others.</p>
<p>To address the second part there was also a brief discussion about wiki project classroom coordination with specific examples from universities around the world. The teachers and faculty members will be sent a detailed outline of the program, list of universities with on-going projects, list of teachers who have used Wikipedia as a teaching tool and are willing to serve as a contact to help others set up a similar teaching courses.</p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY">The session was planned to go on until late evening with hands on editing in the computer lab. But unfortunately, we (Rohini and Nitika) were informed that the session will have to close before the scheduled closing time as participants had to leave. Except for two or three participants coming on stage and making their user accounts and another 3-4 article edits, we couldn't include more editing as a part of the outreach session, primarily due to time constraint. We're hoping that at a small percentage of participants would try actual editing at home and contribute to women related articles and some of them will be successful in using Wikipedia as a teacher's tool. We have their contact details and we'll try and monitor their on Wiki activities and provide them support whenever needed.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-womens-day-in-goa'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/wiki-womens-day-in-goa</a>
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No publishernitikaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaFeaturedWorkshopOpenness2013-03-19T06:32:25ZBlog EntryWeb Sites Accessibility Evaluation Methodologies: A New Imperative for State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
https://cis-india.org/events/w3c-conference-hyderabad
<b>W3C-WAI, G3ict and CIS are joining hands to organise the 20th International World Wide Web Conference in Hyderabad, India on March 30, 2011 at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Room H-01.
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<p>While web accessibility principles and guidelines have already become well known and been adopted by many countries, measuring the accessibility of web sites for users living with different types of disabilities remains a complex endeavor subject to a number of possible methodological challenges. Yet, with web accessibility policies and programs increasingly implemented around the world as a result of the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (98 countries representing over 75 per cent of the world population), policy makers, organizations of persons with disabilities, web site owners and courts when legal action is taken will inevitably need to rely on well-defined evaluation methodologies and benchmarks.</p>
<p>The panel, which will take place during the first day of the W3C Track with focus on web accessibility and discuss current accessibility evaluation methodologies and their challenges, policy makers requirements, current plans of the W3C-WAI, and practical technical survey methodologies alternatives.</p>
<p><strong>Panelists will include</strong>: Glenda Sims(Deque Systems), ShadiAbouZahra (W3C-WAI), Neeta Verma (National Informatics Centre, Government of India), NirmitaNarasimhan (Center for Internet and Society), and SrinivasuChakravarthula (Yahoo! India).</p>
<ul><li>Co-organizers: W3C-WAI, G3ict, CIS</li><li>Duration: 90 minutes</li><li>Moderator:NirmitaNarasimhan, Program Manager, CIS and Editor, G3ict – ITU Policy Toolkit Handbook<br /></li></ul>
<h3>Panel Agenda:</h3>
<p><strong>Introduction</strong>:NirmitaNarasimhan, Program Manager, CIS and Editor, G3ict – ITU Policy Toolkit Handbookwill welcome participants on behalf of co-organizers CIS, G3ict and W3C, introduces speakers and topics:</p>
<ol><li><strong>NirmitaNarasimhan</strong> will share G3ict’s perspective on the CRPD and its global impact as well as the legislative, regulatory and judicial requirements for a reliable evaluation methodology of web accessibility.</li><li><strong>ShadiAbou Zahra </strong>will describe the work of W3C-WAI in this domain, and discuss the multiple tools available, methodological challenges and future work currently planned.</li><li><strong>Glenda Sims</strong>, Senior Accessibility Consultant willpresents Deque’s experience and the technical details of evaluating and testing enterprise level websites, comparing methodologies and suggesting solutions to establish guidelines.</li><li><strong>SrinivasuChakravarthula</strong>, Accessibility Manager at Yahoo! India, member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) India’s National Advisory Board and of the NASSCOM’s Disability Working Committee, will present industry’s perspectives and the need to rely on clear accessibility benchmarks.</li><li><strong>Neeta Verma</strong>, Senior Technical Director, Data Centre& Web Services Division, National Informatics Centre will discuss web accessibility assessment methodologies from an e-governance standpoint.</li><li><strong>Q&As</strong> among panelists and the audience.</li></ol>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/events/w3c-conference-hyderabad'>https://cis-india.org/events/w3c-conference-hyderabad</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaEvent TypeWorkshopAccessibility2011-08-31T10:40:17ZEventVoices from Goa: Rusita Paryekar, a MA student writes articles on Konkani Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/voices-from-goa-wikipedia-editor-rusita-paryekar
<b>Rusita Paryekar is one of the 38 students from the MA Konkani department of Goa University gathered at the State Central Library to learn writing and editing articles on Konkani Wikipedia. Currently Konkani Wikipedia is in incubation and needs more voluntary participation from enthusiasts who want their language, Konkani to strengthen its base in the digital knowledge domain.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Thirty-eight M.A. students from the Konkani department of Goa came together for a four day long Konkani Wikipedia editing fun workshop and created history. Konkani Wikipedia is one of the Wikipedia projects that went into incubation (a phase every new Wikipedia project goes to allow the editor community to grow and take the project to a sustainable position) seven years back. Sadly it is still in incubation. One of the major reasons is the conflict for script. Konkani is <a href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/konkani.htm" target="_blank">written in 5 different scripts</a>; Devanagari in Goa (as the official script of Goa) and Maharashtra, Roman (<i>also known as Romi)</i> and written by Goan Christian population, Kannada in Mangalore region of Karnataka, and Malayalam in Kochi region of Kerala. The Konkani speaking diaspora is now very much part of the the socio-ethnic groups of these neighbouring regions. The language of these states has naturally influenced Konkani spoken and written by the Konkani diaspora which has resulted in multiple writing standards and dialects. There are four standards of writing systems:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Writing standard that is officially approved by the <a href="http://www.dol.goa.gov.in/" target="_blank">Directorate of Official language, Government of Goa</a> written in Devanagari script. Majority of the books (includes all Government of Goa publications) are written in this standard.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Writing standard that was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_loanwords_in_Konkani" target="_blank" title="List of loanwords in Konkani">influenced</a> by the Portugese language during the Portuguese rule. Earliest available writings in Konkani including The Holy Bible are written in this standards.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Writing standard that Mangalorean Konkani diaspora use.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Writing standard that Keralite Konkani diaspora use.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Interestingly Konkani diaspora of all these regions have produced books in the writing standards mentioned above. The <a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/Mukhel_Pan" target="_blank">Konkani Wikipedia incubation</a> project currently has 133 articles written in 3 different scripts; Devanagari, Roman and Kannada which has been a problem to get the approval. But this has not stopped the language enthusiasts to stop contributing. While meeting these students I felt that urge for bringing up Konkani in a digital domain and telling the Konkani diaspora about the untold story of Goa. This is the motivation that drives Rusita and many others to contribute to Wikipedia. Her first contribution was about Goan folk songs (<a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82" target="_blank">गोंयची लोकगितां</a>) which is the first Konkani article about this topic on the internet that is available for free. ‘If I would not write about my culture in my language who would do that?, says Rusita.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Further reading<br /></b>Manohar L. Sardessai. <a href="http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40872551?uid=7451096&uid=3738256&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=3&uid=4830040&uid=67&uid=62&sid=21102620930003" target="_blank">Influence on Konkani</a>. Journal of South Asian Literature. Vol. 18, No. 1, Goan Literature: A Modern Reader (Winter, Spring 1983), pp. 155-158.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i><span class="extiw">Copyright note: The video and the content of this post are in <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-SA 3.0</a>. Feel free to use, share and remix the content and attribute me.</span></i></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/voices-from-goa-wikipedia-editor-rusita-paryekar'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/voices-from-goa-wikipedia-editor-rusita-paryekar</a>
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No publishersubhaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-09-06T12:30:19ZBlog EntryTwo-day Wiki Workshop in Goa University: An Introduction
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/two-day-wiki-workshop-in-goa-university
<b>Last month, on December 12 and 13, 2012, the Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet & Society along with Wikipedia community members organized a two-day workshop for M.A. and Ph.D. students at the Goa University. Nitika Tandon participated in the event and shares with us the developments. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">All efforts invested in discussions and planning the workshop over multiple mail trails, conference calls, one-on-one calls paid off extremely well. Over 35 participants attended the two-days workshop and thoroughly enjoyed the sessions.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Most of the participants had already created their usernames before the first session, as it was instructed to them earlier, though there were some participants who created their user accounts during the session. Despite creating a <a href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42767">ticket</a> for releasing the IP from the "seven accounts creation limit" we ran into an IP block. This was the second time we encountered such a problem. We will look more closely into this matter for smoother operations in future.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It was pre-decided by the organisers that the first session will be theoretical while the second session will be a complete hands-on-traning session. Hence, the first session started with a general introduction about Wikipedia, the five pillars, how Wikipedia works, a brief introduction about the Wikipedia community, and the state of Wikipedia in India.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The following day participants pre-selected articles that they wanted to edit during the course of the second session. They were taught how to do minor edits, add edit summary, add references, view history and page statistics, and also briefed about the importance of publishing articles, and user talk pages.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The two day long workshop came to an end with a meeting organized by all the participants to decide what should be their next steps. The workshop created a lot of enthusiasm in the participants. They got to know how individual researchers and professors build pages on Wikipedia, and they too can start by contributing one page at a time. They also showed keen interest to understand how monthly meet-ups are organised in other cities so that they could also organise meet-ups in Goa starting 2013 (the proposed date was January 16, 2013 — when Wikipedia's anniversary can be celebrated).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The feedback received from the participants was extremely positive. In the meanwhile there have been some discussion about forthcoming workshops — we have already received inquires from five more institutes to organize similar events in Goa. It seems like the initial seeds have been sown for a flourishing Wikipedia community in Goa.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A special thanks to Prof. Alito Siqueira from Department of Sociology Goa University, Harriet Vidyasagar from OLPC, Prof. Gopakumar from Goa University, Debanjan and Frederick from Wikipedia community and the CIS team for making this workshop a huge success.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/two-day-wiki-workshop-in-goa-university'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/two-day-wiki-workshop-in-goa-university</a>
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No publishernitikaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-01-25T06:30:54ZBlog EntryTulu Wikipedia Editathon
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/tulu-wikipedia-editathon
<b>The Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with Karnataka Theological College, Mangalore is organizing a Tulu Wikipedia Editathon on April 19, 2014 at Balmatta Computer Centre, Karnataka Theological College, Mangalore. Dr. U.B.Pavanaja is conducting the workshop. </b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/tulu-wikipedia-editathon'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/tulu-wikipedia-editathon</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopEvent2014-05-06T05:12:18ZEventTrain the Trainer — Four-day long Residential Training Workshop in Bangalore
https://cis-india.org/openness/events/train-the-trainer
<b>Train the Trainer is a four-day long residential training workshop to enable Indian Wikipedia community members conduct outreach sessions effectively and independently. It is being conducted by the CIS-A2K team in Bangalore in the first week of October.</b>
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<p>See the event on the <a class="external-link" href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program">Wikipedia page here</a>. <i>Please note that the exact dates for this event hasn't been finalized. We will let you know once it is done</i>. See the Snippets from Wikimedia Train the Trainer <a class="external-link" href="https://storify.com/CISA2K/wikimedia-train-the-trainer-2015">here</a>.</p>
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<h3>Why CIS-A2K is conducting this Program?</h3>
<p>Based on an internal needs assessment exercise undertaken by CIS-A2K, it has been realized that:</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">bulk of the Indian population does not know about the existence of Indic Wikipedias and sister projects.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">there is a lot of potential to do outreach in India but it is hampered by community member's lack of time, lack of availability of support material and/or ability to do outreach.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">though many Indic Wikipedia community members have desire to undertake offline outreach they seldom receive support and guidance.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">there is a need to further build the capacity of interested community members to conduct effective outreach sessions.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Thus through this program, the CIS-A2K programme wants to support and enable community members who are interested to conduct Wikipedia outreach sessions in their own cities/languages and to spread the word about the Indic Wikipedias.</p>
<h3>Overview of the programme</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K is organising a 4 day Train the Trainer Program in Bangalore. The program will include:</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">3 day sessions with interactive training run by professional consultants on how to conduct outreach in an effective manner – training on presentation skills, audience engagement, public speaking etc. It will include mock presentations, with video recording for feedback.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">4th day will be a field trip aiming to train the participants on how to organise an effective photothon; in addition, participants will also add pictures from the field trip to Wikimedia Commons for enhancing and improving articles on Indian language Wikipedias.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Selection Criterion</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K will conduct this program for approximately 20-25 interested community members from different Indian language communities. We want to make sure that there is equal participation from each language community. The CIS-A2K will use below mentioned parameters for selecting candidates.</p>
<ol>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K's evaluation of <a class="text external" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1le9y8P4ojQTLvOm-L2vikfYUnpF_pfLhOTquPAnK7tU/viewform" rel="nofollow">Train the Trainer Program Application Form</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Motivation of the candidate to be a part of the program.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The applicant should have made minimum 200 edits on their respective Indian language Wikipedia.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The applicant should have created at least 5 new articles of start class (as defined by their language community) on their respective Indian language Wikipedia.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The applicant should have conducted at least 1 outreach session before the end of application date and shared the report with the community (via mailing list, village pump, event page, etc.)</li>
</ol>
<h3>Candidates' Deliverable</h3>
<p>There are certain deliverables that CIS-A2K expects out of selected candidates. These are:</p>
<ol>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Take lead in translating outreach documents (including presentations, banners, FAQs, handouts) in their respective language and share it with their respective communities.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Organise at least 2 outreach sessions per month in their respective cities, for a minimum of 6 continuous months and share the report with the community (via mailing list, village pump, event page, etc.).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Take lead in organising at least 1 community meet up in their respective cities, where they would give a small talk/presentation about their experience in the Train the Trainer Program and share ideas and tips they picked from the program with their language community members.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Write a 1500-word report sharing their Train the Trainer Program experience with large emphasis on their learnings and take-aways to be shared with all Indian communities.</li>
</ol>
<h3>What's in it for you?</h3>
<ol>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Get general training and presentation skills which you can apply not only during Wikipedia workshops, but also during delivering personal and professional talks.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Receive detailed feedback about your presentation and training skills from professional consultants.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Help design a training program that serves Wikimedia community in the long term.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Share your skills with others.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Meet fellow Wikimedia editors and have fun.</li>
</ol>
<table class="plain">
<tbody>
<tr style="text-align: justify; ">
<th>Dates</th><th>Number of days</th><th>Details</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">30th August to 13th September 2013</td>
<td>14 Days</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K accepts applications.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">13th September to 16th September 2013</td>
<td>3 Days</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K evaluates the applications and shares details of selected candidates.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">16th September to 23th September 2013</td>
<td>7 Days</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K co-ordinates with selected candidates to finalize their travel plans, make reservations etc.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">1st week of October 2013</td>
<td>4 Days</td>
<td style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K organises Train the trainer Program.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3>Call for Participation</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K is calling for applications for it's Train the Trainer Program. If you'd like to be part of this program please make sure that you meet the <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nitika.t/TTT#Selection_Criterion" title="User:Nitika.t/TTT">selection criterion</a> and fill in the <a class="text external" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1le9y8P4ojQTLvOm-L2vikfYUnpF_pfLhOTquPAnK7tU/viewform" rel="nofollow">Train the Trainer Program Application Form</a> by 13th September, 2013.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">FAQ</h3>
<ol>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>What is train the trainer program?</b><br /> Train the trainer is a 4 day program organised by CIS-A2K to build capacity and enable community members to conduct outreach sessions independently or with minimal support to introduce Wikipedia to prospective editors in their respective Indian languages. Participants will be trained on various aspects such as presenting with impact, engaging with the audience, significance of body language, outreach follow ups etc. Program will also include groups discussions on ideas, learnings, challenges faced during outreach sessions.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>When will train the trainer program run?</b><br /> Train the trainer program will take place in Bangalore for 4 continuous days in the 1st week of October 2013. Exact details of dates and venue will be communicated shortly.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Who can take part in the program?</b><br /> The event is open to all Wikimedia volunteers from India who can and want to support outreach events in the coming year.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>How can I apply?</b><br /> Please fill in <a class="text external" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1le9y8P4ojQTLvOm-L2vikfYUnpF_pfLhOTquPAnK7tU/viewform" rel="nofollow">Train the Trainer Program Application Form</a>.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Who will take care of my travel and accommodation?</b><br /> CIS-A2K has a budget for Community Development and the team will be able to cover your travel and accommodation.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>What will be the timings each day?</b><br /> The timings of the program will be 9.00am to 7.30pm everyday with sufficient time for lunch, dinner, tea breaks and fun sessions.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>Where will I eat?</b><br /> Light breakfast and lunch will be provided; together with social dinner. Arrangements will also be made for tea and coffee.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; "><b>What is expected out of me?</b></li>
</ol> <dl><dd> <dl><dd>
<ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Each selected candidate will be given some pre-work. You're expected to come with completed pre-work.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Take lead in translating outreach documents (including presentations, banners, FAQs, handouts) in their respective language and share it with their respective communities.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Post the program, organize at least 2 outreach sessions per month in your respective cities, for a minimum of 6 continuous months and share the report with the community (via mailing list, village pump, event page, etc.).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Post the program, take lead in organising at least 1 community meet up in your respective cities, where you would give a small talk/presentation about your experience in the Train the Trainer Program and share ideas and tips you picked from the program with your language community members.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Write a 1500-word report sharing your Train the Trainer Program experience with large emphasis on learnings and take-aways to be shared with all Indian communities.</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h3>Contact</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">For any further queries please mail at <a class="mail-link" href="mailto:a2k@cis-india.org">a2k@cis-india.org</a></p>
<ul>
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</ul>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/events/train-the-trainer'>https://cis-india.org/openness/events/train-the-trainer</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpennessEvent2015-09-27T09:59:00ZEventThird Maps for Making Change Workshop: Using Geographical Mapping Techniques to Support Struggles for Social Justice in India
https://cis-india.org/events/third-maps-for-making-change-workshop
<b>The third and final workshop in the Maps for Making Change project will take place at Visthar, in Bangalore, from 26 until 28 April. During this workshop, participants will fine-tune and polish their maps; explore ways to connect with broader movements and disseminate their maps among target audiences; and reflect on their own experiences so as to distill learnings that can help us decide where to go from here. While participation in the workshop is closed, the workshop will end with a public event at the CIS office on 28 April, from 4 pm onwards, open to everybody (more information to follow soon). If you, too, share our interest in mapping for social change, then do join us there.</b>
<p><strong>The
aims of the workshop are to: </strong></p>
<ul><li>
<p>give
participants an opportunity to fine-tune and polish their maps, with
the assistance of others where needed, so that they can be shared
with a wider audience;</p>
</li><li>
<p>explore
campaigning tools and strategies for disseminating the maps produced
among target audiences, including other movements and activists;</p>
</li><li>
<p>distill
the learnings participants have made from this project, both
individually and as a group, and prepare a plan to build upon these
in the future.</p>
</li></ul>
<p><strong>By
the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:</strong></p>
<ul><li>
<p>make
informed decisions about every step of the design and implementation
process of a mapping project.</p>
</li></ul>
<p><strong>Also,
participants and organisers will be able to:</strong></p>
<ul><li>
<p>identify
the political and ethical challenges of mapping, in particular as
they apply for social justice in India;</p>
</li><li>
<p>understand
better the particularities of online activism and ways in which it
can connect better with activism on the ground in the country;</p>
</li><li>
<p>apply
their knowledge of mapping to other campaigns and movements in India
and function as a point of contact for other activists for a network
of activists using maps for making change.</p>
</li></ul>
<p><strong>The preliminary schedule of the workshop is as follows:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Monday 26 April</strong></p>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<p><strong>Time</strong></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><strong>Session</strong></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><em>9.00-10.00</em></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><em>Registration at
Visthar</em></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>10.00-11.00</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Welcome and
introductions (icebreaker)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>11.00-1.00</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>90 Seconds: Where are
we with our projects (and what do we need to achieve during this
workshop)?</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><em>1.00-2.00</em></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><em>Lunch </em></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>2.00-3.30</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Building partnerships
between techies and activists: what is required? (debate and
discussion)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><em>3.30-3.45</em></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><em>Tea/coffee Break</em></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>3.45-5.00</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Project time as per
participants' needs (which can relate to technical issues, design,
hosting, ...)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>5.00-6.15</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Afternoon
'Lab' Sessions (CHOOSE ONE):</p>
<p>Elective
1. Hosting and creating websites and embedding maps</p>
<p>Elective 2. Technology
and Security Concerns for Activists</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>6.15-6.30</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Evening Circle</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>6.30-7.30</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Free Time</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><em>7.30-8.30</em></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><em>Dinner</em></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>8.30-10.00</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Screening
of Swagat Sen's film on the second workshop and social gathering</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Tuesday 27 April <br /></strong></p>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<p><strong>Time</strong></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><strong>Session</strong></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><em>8.00-9.00</em></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><em>Breakfast </em></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>9.00-9.30</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Morning Circle</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>9.30-11.00</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Maps as agents of
change – uses and challenges (including in terms of how to
connect with movements on the ground)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><em>11.00-11.30</em></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><em>Tea/coffee Break </em></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>11.30-1.00</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Communication and
campaigning strategies to take mapping outcomes forward to broader
audience, both online and offline (poss. Incl. Use of creative
media)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><em>1.00-2.15</em></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><em>Lunch</em></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>2.15-4.00</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Project time as per
participants needs</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><em>4.00-4.30</em></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><em>Tea/coffee break</em></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>4.30-5.15</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Evaluating Maps for
Making Change</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>5.15-6.15</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>What next?</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>6.15-6.30</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Evening Circle</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>6.30-7.30</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Free Time</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><em>7.30-8.30</em></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><em>Dinner</em></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>8.30-...</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Social
evening</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Wednesday 28 April</strong></p>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<p><strong>Time</strong></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><strong>Session</strong></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><em>8.00 – 9.00</em></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><em>Breakfast</em></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>9.00 – 9.30</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Morning Circle</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>9.30-12.30</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Finalise preparations for
public event (project work or other, eg slides on loop etc)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><em>10.30-11.00</em></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><em>Tea/coffee Break </em></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>11.00-12.30</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Finalise preparations for
public event (cont.)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><em>12.30-1.30</em></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><em>Lunch</em></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>1.30-2.00</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Travel to CIS</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>2.00-4.00</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Set
up the public event</p>
<p> </p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>4.00-7.30</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Public event (with a
discussion from 5.30 onwards)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><em>7.30-9.00</em></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><em>Dinner (venue to be
decided) + workshop evaluation</em></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>9.00-9.30</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Return to Visthar</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>9.30-...</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>Great-working-with-you-guys Party
at Visthar</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
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<p> </p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/events/third-maps-for-making-change-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/events/third-maps-for-making-change-workshop</a>
</p>
No publisheranjaRAW EventsPracticeWorkshopResearchers at WorkEventMaps for Making Change2015-10-05T15:10:23ZEventSummary of the CIS workshop on the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/summary-of-cis-workshop-on-dna-profiling-bill-2012
<b>On March 1st, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society organized a workshop which analysed the April 2012 draft Human DNA Profiling Bill and its potential implications on human rights in India.</b>
<hr />
<p><i>This research was undertaken as part of the 'SAFEGUARDS' project that CIS is undertaking with Privacy International and IDRC</i>.</p>
<hr />
<p>Think you control who has access to your DNA data? That might just be a myth of the past. Today, clearly things have changed, as draft Bills with the objective of creating state, regional, and national DNA databases in India have been leaked over the last years. Plans of profiling certain residents in India are being unravelled as, apparently, the new policy when collecting, handling, analysing, sharing and storing DNA data is that all personal information is welcome; the more, the merrier!<span> </span></p>
<p>Who is behind all of this? The Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics in India created the 2007 draft DNA Profiling Bill<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn1">[1]</a>, with the aim of regulating the use of DNA for forensic and other purposes. In February 2012 another draft of the Bill was leaked which was created by the Department of Biotechnology. The most recent version of the Bill was drafted in April 2012 and seeks to create DNA databases at the state, regional and national level in India<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn2">[2]</a>. According to the latest 2012 draft Human DNA Profiling Bill, each DNA database will contain profiles of victims, offenders, suspects, missing persons and volunteers for the purpose of identification in criminal and civil proceedings. The Bill also establishes a process for certifying DNA laboratories, and a DNA Profiling Board for overseeing the carrying out of the Act.</p>
<p>However, the 2012 draft Human DNA Profiling Bill lacks adequate safeguards and its various loopholes and overreaching provisions could create a potential for abuse. The creation of DNA databases is currently unregulated in India and although regulations should be enacted to prevent data breaches, the current Bill raises major concerns in regards to the collection, use, analysis and retention of DNA samples, DNA data and DNA profiles. In other words, the proposed DNA databases would not only be restricted to criminals…</p>
<h2><b>DNA databases...and Justice for All?</b></h2>
<p><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7197/6959954129_fefd0f928a.jpg" /></p>
<p class="italized">Source: <span> </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/libertasacademica/">Libertas Academica</a> on flickr</p>
<p class="italized"><a class="external-link" href="http://dnaphenomena.blogspot.in/2011/05/dna-profiling.html"></a>Du<span>ring the workshop </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn3">[3]</a><span>on the 2012 draft Human DNA Profiling Bill, DNA</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn4">[4]</a><span> was defined as a material that determines a persons´ hereditary traits, whilst DNA profiling</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn5">[5]</a><span> was defined as the processing and analysis of unique sequences of parts of DNA. Thus the uniqueness of DNA data is clear and the implications that could potentially occur through its profiling could be tremendous. The 2007 DNA Profiling Bill has been amended, yet its current 2012 version appears not only to be more intrusive, but to also be extremely vague in terms of protecting data, whilst very deterministic in regards to the DNA Profiling Board´s power. A central question in the meeting was:</span></p>
<blockquote class="italized"><i>Should DNA databases be created at all? </i></blockquote>
<p><i> </i></p>
<p>The following concerns were raised and discussed during the workshop:</p>
<h3>● The myth of the infallibility of DNA evidence</h3>
<p>The Innocence Project<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn6">[6]</a>, which was presented at the workshop, appears to provide an appeal towards the storage of DNA samples and profiles, as it represents clients seeking post-conviction DNA testing to prove their innocence. According to statistics presented at the workshop, there have been 303 post-conviction exonerations in the United States, as a result of individuals proving their innocence through DNA testing. Though post-conviction exonerations can be useful, they cannot be the basis and main justification for creating DNA databases. Although DNA testing could enable post-conviction exonerations, errors in matching data remain a high probability and could result in innocent people being accused, arrested and prosecuted for crimes they did not commit. Thus, arguments towards the necessity and utility of the creation of DNA databases in India appear to be weak, especially since DNA evidence is <i>not </i>infallible<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn7">[7]</a>.</p>
<p>False matches can occur based on the type of profiling system used, and errors can take place in the chain of custody of the DNA sample, all of which indicate the weakness of DNA evidence being used. DNA data only provides<i> probabilities</i> of potential matches between DNA profiles and the larger the amount of DNA data collected, the larger the probability of an error in matching profiles<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn8">[8]</a>.</p>
<h3>● <b>The non-criteria of DNA data collection</b></h3>
<p>How and when can DNA data be collected? The amended draft 2012 Bill remains extremely vague and broad. In particular, the Bill states that <i>all</i> offences under the Indian Penal Code and other laws, such as the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956, are applicable instances of human DNA profiling. Section B(viii) of the Schedule states that human DNA profiling will be applicable for offences under <i>´any other law as may be specified by the regulations made by the Board´</i>. This incredibly vague section empowers the DNA Profiling Board with the ultimate power to decide upon the offences under which DNA data will be collected. The issue is this: most laws have loopholes. A Bill which lists applicable instances of human DNA profiling, under the umbrella of a potentially indefinite number of laws, exposes individuals to the collection of their DNA data, which could lead to potential abuse.</p>
<h3>● <b>The DNA Profiling Board´s power</b></h3>
<p>The DNA Profiling Board has ´absolute´ power, especially according to the 2012 draft Human DNA Profiling Bill. Some of the Board´s functions include providing recommendations for provision of privacy protection laws, regulations and practices relating to access to, or use of, stored DNA samples or DNA analyses<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn9">[9]</a>. The Board is also required to advise on all ethical and human rights issues, as well as to take ´necessary steps´ to protect privacy. However, it remains unclear how a Board which lacks human rights expertise will carry out such tasks.</p>
<p><b>No human rights experts</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p>Despite the various amendments<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn10">[10]</a> to the section on the composition of the Board, no privacy or human rights experts have been included. According to the Bill, the Board will be comprised of many molecular biologists and other scientists, while human rights experts have not been included to the list. This can potentially be problematic as a lack of expertise on privacy and human rights laws can lead to the regulation of DNA databases without taking civil liberties into consideration.</p>
<p><b>Vague authorisation for communication of DNA profiles</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p>The Bill also empowers the Board to ´authorise procedures for communication of DNA profiles for<i> civil proceedings</i> and for crime investigation by law enforcement and <i>other agencies</i>´<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn11">[11]</a>. Although the 2007 Bill <a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn12">[12]</a>restricted the Boards´ authorisation to crime investigation by law enforcement agencies, its 2012 amendment extends such authorisation to ´civil proceedings´ which can also be carried out by so-called ´other agencies´.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn13">[13]</a> This amendment raises concerns, as the ´other agencies´ and the term ´civil proceedings´ remain vague.</p>
<p><b>Protecting the public</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p>The Board is also authorised to ´assist law enforcement agencies in using DNA techniques to protect the public´<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn14">[14]</a>. Over the last years, laws are being enacted that enable law enforcement agencies to use technologies for surveillance purposes in the name of ´public security´, and the 2012 draft Bill is no exception. Many security measures have been applied to ´protect the public´, such as CCTV cameras and other technologies, but their actual contribution to public safety still remains a controversial debate<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn15">[15]</a>. DNA techniques which would effectively protect the public have not been adequately proven, thus it remains unclear how the Board would assist law enforcement agencies.</p>
<p><b>Sharing data with international agencies…and regulating DNA laboratories</b></p>
<p>In addition to the above, the Board would also encourage cooperation between Indian investigation agencies and international agencies<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn16">[16]</a>. This would potentially enable the sharing of DNA data between third parties and would enhance the probability of data being leaked to unauthorised third parties.</p>
<p>The Board would <i>also </i>be authorised to regulate the standards, quality control and quality assurance obligations of the DNA laboratories<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn17">[17]</a>. The draft 2012 Bill ultimately gives <i>monopolistic control</i> to the DNA Profiling Board over<i> all</i> the procedures related to the handling of DNA data!</p>
<h3>● <b>The DNA Data Bank Manager</b></h3>
<p>According to the 2012 draft Human DNA Profiling Bill<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn18">[18]</a>, it is the DNA Data Bank Manager who would carry out ´all operations of and concerning the National DNA Data Bank´. All such operations are not clearly specified. The powers and duties that the DNA Data Bank Manager would be expected to have are not specified in the Bill, which merely states that they would be specified by regulations made by the DNA Profiling Board.</p>
<p>The Bill also empowers the Manager to determine appropriate instances for the communication of information<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn19">[19]</a>. In other words, law enforcement agencies and DNA laboratories can request the disclosure of information from the DNA Data Bank Manager, without prior authorisation. The DNA Data Bank Manager is empowered to decide the requested data.</p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<ul>
<li><span>DNA access restrictions</span></li>
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<p> </p>
<p><span> </span><span>Are you a victim or a cleared suspect? You better be, if you want access to your data to be restricted! The 2012 draft Human DNA Profiling Bill </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn20">[20]</a><span>states that access to information will be restricted in cases when a DNA profile derives from a victim or a person who has been excluded as a suspect. The Bill is unclear as to how access to the data of non-victims or suspects is regulated.</span></p>
<h3>● Availability of DNA profiles and DNA samples</h3>
<p>According to the amended draft 2012 Bill<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftn21">[21]</a>, DNA profiles and samples can be made available in criminal cases, judicial proceedings and for defence purposes among others. However, ´criminal cases´ are loosely defined and could enable the availability of DNA data in low profile cases. Furthermore, the availability of DNA data is also enabled for the ´creation and maintenance of a<i> population statistics database</i>´. This is controversial because it remains unclear how such a database would be used.</p>
<h3>● Data destruction</h3>
<p>According to an amendment to section 37, DNA data will be kept on a ´permanent basis´ and the DNA Data Bank Manager will expunge a DNA profile only once the court has certified that an individual is no longer a suspect. This raises major concerns, as it does not clarify under what conditions individuals can have access to their data during its retention, nor does it give volunteers and missing persons the opportunity to have their data deleted from the data bank.</p>
<h2>Workshop conclusions</h2>
<p><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3235/3080247531_bf04a5cbe5.jpg" /></p>
<p>Source: <span> </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/micahb37/">micahb37</a> on flickr</p>
<p>The various loopholes in the Bill which can create a potential for abuse were discussed throughout the workshop, as well as various issues revolving around DNA data retention, as previously mentioned.<span> </span></p>
<p>During the workshop, some participants questioned the creation of DNA databases to begin with, while others argued that they are inevitable and that it is not a question of whether they should exist, but rather a question of how they should be regulated. All participants agreed upon the need for further safeguards to protect individuals´ right to privacy and other human rights. Further research on the necessity and utility of the creation of DNA databases in regards to human rights was recommended. In addition to all the above, the Ministry of Law and Justice was recommended to pilot the draft DNA Profiling Bill to ensure better provisions in regards to privacy and data protection.</p>
<p>A debate on the use of DNA data in civil cases versus criminal cases was largely discussed in the workshop, with concerns raised in regards to DNA sampling being enabled in civil cases. The fact that the terms ´civil cases´ and ´criminal cases´ remain broad, vague and not legally-specified, raised huge concerns in the workshop as this could enable the misuse of DNA data by authorities. Thus, the members attending the workshop recommended the creation of two separate Bills regulating the use of DNA data: a DNA Profiling Bill for Criminal Investigation and a DNA Profiling Bill for Research. The creation of such Bills would restrict the access to, collection, analysis, sharing of and retention of DNA data to strictly criminal investigation and research purposes.</p>
<p>However, even if separate Bills were created, who is to say that when implemented DNA in the database would not be abused? Criminal investigations can be loosely defined and research purposes can potentially cover anything and everything. So the question remains:</p>
<blockquote class="italized"><i>Should DNA databases be created at all? </i></blockquote>
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<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref1">[1]</a> Draft DNA Profiling Bill 2007, <a href="http://dbtindia.nic.in/DNA_Bill.pdf">http://dbtindia.nic.in/DNA_Bill.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref2">[2]</a> Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012: Working draft versión – 29th April 2012,</p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref3">[3]</a> Centre for Internet and Society, <i>Analyzing the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012, </i>25 February 2013, <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/analyzing-draft-human-dna-profiling-bill">http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/analyzing-draft-human-dna-profiling-bill</a></p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref4">[4]</a> Genetics Home Reference: Your Guide to Understanding Genetic Conditions, <i>What is DNA?, </i><a href="http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/basics/dna"><i>http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/basics/dna</i></a><i> </i></p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref5">[5]</a> Shanna Freeman, <i>How DNA profiling Works, </i><a href="http://science.howstuffworks.com/dna-profiling.htm"><i>http://science.howstuffworks.com/dna-profiling.htm</i></a><i> </i></p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref6">[6]</a> Innocence Project, <i>DNA exoneree case profiles, </i><a href="http://www.innocenceproject.org/know/"><i>http://www.innocenceproject.org/know/</i></a><i> </i></p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref7">[7]</a> Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), <i>Essentially Yours: The Protection of Human Genetic Information in Australia (ALRC Report 96), </i>´Criminal Proceedings: Reliability of DNA evidence´, Chapter 44, <a href="http://www.alrc.gov.au/publications/44-criminal-proceedings/reliability-dna-evidence">http://www.alrc.gov.au/publications/44-criminal-proceedings/reliability-dna-evidence</a></p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref8">[8]</a> Ibid.</p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref9">[9]</a> Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012: Working draft version – 29th April 2012, Section 12(o, p, t), <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/draft-dna-profiling-bill-2012.pdf">http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/draft-dna-profiling-bill-2012.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref10">[10]</a> Ibid: Section 4(q)</p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref11">[11]</a> Ibid: Section 12(j)</p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref12">[12]</a> Draft DNA Profiling Bill 2007, Section 13, <a href="http://dbtindia.nic.in/DNA_Bill.pdf">http://dbtindia.nic.in/DNA_Bill.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref13">[13]</a> : Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012: Working draft version – 29<sup>th</sup> April 2012, Sections 12(j), <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/draft-dna-profiling-bill-2012.pdf">http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/draft-dna-profiling-bill-2012.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref14">[14]</a> Ibid: Section 12(l)</p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref15">[15]</a> Schneier, B.(2008), <i>Schneier on Security, </i>´CCTV cameras´, <a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/06/cctv_cameras.html">http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/06/cctv_cameras.html</a></p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref16">[16]</a> Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012: Working draft version – 29<sup>th</sup> April 2012, Sections 12(u) and 12(v), <a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/draft-dna-profiling-bill-2012.pdf">http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/draft-dna-profiling-bill-2012.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref17">[17]</a> Ibid: Section on the ´Standards, Quality Control and Quality Assurance Obligations of DNA Laboratories´</p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref18">[18]</a> Ibid: Section 33</p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref19">[19]</a> Ibid: Section 35</p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref20">[20]</a> Ibid: Section 43</p>
<p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/Documents/CIS%20blog%20on%20DNA%20Bills.docx#_ftnref21">[21]</a> Ibid: Section 40</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/summary-of-cis-workshop-on-dna-profiling-bill-2012'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/summary-of-cis-workshop-on-dna-profiling-bill-2012</a>
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No publishermariaWorkshopInternet GovernanceSAFEGUARDS2013-07-12T15:33:25ZBlog EntryStress on posting articles on Kannada Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/news/hindu-r-krishna-kumar-august-2-2013-stress-on-posting-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia
<b>A workshop to be held on CPDPS premises on August 6.</b>
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<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">This <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/stress-on-posting-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia/article4980552.ece">article by R Krishna Kumar was published in the Hindu on August 2, 2013</a>. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja is quoted.</p>
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<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">For those with knowledge of Kannada and basic computer skills, here is an opportunity for posting articles in Kannada on the collaborative and free Wikipedia and facilitate the growth of Kannada online.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">To help interested people learn the process of posting their articles on Wikipedia, the Centre for Proficiency Development Placement Service (CPDPS) of the University of Mysore will conduct a one-day workshop on August 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop will be conducted on the CPDPS premises, Manasagangotri, and is being conducted by U.B. Pavanaja of the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Niranjana Vanalli, Director, CPDPS, told <i>The Hindu</i> that though Kannada has got the classical language tag and several Kannada writers have got the Jnanpith, Kannada is among the least represented language on Wikipedia in terms of articles in Indian languages, and this workshop is a small step towards correcting these lacunae.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">According to Mr. Pavanaja of CIS, Bangalore, though Kannada Wikipedia was launched in June 2003 and this year marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of the website, there are only 14,500 articles in Kannada.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">This is in contrast to nearly 1,00,000 Hindi articles, 52,000 Telugu articles about 52,000 articles in Tamil, 25,000 in Bengali and 30,000 articles in Malayalam in the Wikipedia. There are over 4.6 million articles in English. German and French are close to English and so it is not merely Kannada but all Indian languages that are lagging behind, said Mr. Pavanaja.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">However, there is scope for improvement as 13 lakh people visit the Kannada Wikipedia website every month. It definitely means that many people are interested in reading articles in Kannada online, so there is scope for posting more articles for their benefit.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">Interestingly Wikipedia, which was launched in January 2001, has articles in 22 Indian languages and 256 languages around the world. There are over 3 crore articles and the number is growing by the day.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">There are other significant aspects to the contribution of Indians to the development of Wikipedia. While Kannadigas have taken to the enrichment of Wikipedia in English their contribution to the enrichment of the Kannada section has been abysmal. Incidentally, there are nearly 16 lakh editors of Wikipedia all over the world of which about 5,500 are Indians and of them 3,300 edit and contribute regularly in English. The remaining 2,200 contribute in Indian languages.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">According to Mr. Pavanaja, roughly 2 crore Indians regularly visit the Wikipedia site but very few are either contributing or editing.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">“Indians were definitely taking advantage of Wikipedia as it gets more than 2 crore hits every year. But the number of Indians contributing to enrich the content is less, more so for Kannada”, he added. Mr. Vanalli, who is a professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Mysore, pointed out that it was ironical that the Kannada was the only Indian language to have an encyclopaedia of its own – Kannada Vishwakosha – published by the University of Mysore. But when it comes to the online collaborative project of Wikipedia, Kannada is lagging behind and this should be reversed.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop will introduce to the participants the features of Wikipedia, and give hands-on demonstration on how to edit and contribute articles. Participants can bring articles of their choice for editing and posting on Wikipedia. For details, contact Director of CPDPS on 0821-2419337/405 or email omegauom@gmail.com for registration.</p>
<p class="body" style="text-align: justify; "><i><b>The workshop will introduce participants to features of Wikipedia, and give demonstration on how to edit and contribute articles</b></i></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/hindu-r-krishna-kumar-august-2-2013-stress-on-posting-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/news/hindu-r-krishna-kumar-august-2-2013-stress-on-posting-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaWorkshopOpenness2013-08-02T06:27:52ZNews ItemSoftware Day Info
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<b>An information about the competition.</b>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/publications/software-freedom-info'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/publications/software-freedom-info</a>
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