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Three emerging market think tanks to collaborate on Good ID recommendations with Omidyar backing
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/biometric-update-may-8-2019-three-emerging-market-think-tanks-to-collaborate-on-good-id-recommendations-with-omidyar-backing
<b>Omidyar Network has invested in a trio of organizations from different regions to support enhanced understanding of the appropriate use and limits of digital identity.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The blog post by Chris Burt was <a class="external-link" href="https://www.biometricupdate.com/201905/three-emerging-market-think-tanks-to-collaborate-on-good-id-recommendations-with-omidyar-backing">published in Biometri Update</a> on May 8, 2019.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Organizations from Brazil, Kenya, and India will take on a collaborative and iterative research process to help develop Omidyar’s concept of Good ID, according to a <a href="https://www.omidyar.com/blog/appropriate-use-digital-identity-why-we-invested-three-region-research%C2%A0alliance" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">blog post</a> by Omidyar Networks Investment Principal Subhashish Bhadra.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The three organizations are the Institute for Technology & Society (ITS), the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT), and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS). The ITS is a non-profit organization based in Brazil, with a mission of ensuring that emerging markets can respond appropriately to digital technologies, and that their benefits are broadly shared. CIPIT is an academic think tank, operating from the Strathmore Law School in Nairobi, Kenya, addressing emerging issues of continent-wide impact and providing an African voice for research networks. CIS is an India-based non-profit, which conducts interdisciplinary academic research to understand how the internet and digital technologies reconfigure social processes and structures.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Bhadra notes that 110 countries have begun identification schemes in the past decade. These programs are often implemented to serve an initial use case, and their application expanded over time.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“In the absence of adequate legislative or judicial oversight, mission creep can create risks for those very individuals that an identity is supposed to empower,” Bhadra writes. “By their very nature, digital identity systems collect some data about individuals in order to provide access to certain services. This immediately raises two interrelated questions. First, how much data should the system collect? Second, what services should it be tied to?”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Determining the appropriate scope of digital identity is inherently complex, and the potential for mission creep and requirement for a growing list of services risks exclusion, privacy violations, and a power imbalance between institutions and individuals, Bhadra argues.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The three groups will conduct independent research over the next six months, and create a set of recommendations and tools for stakeholders to use when engaging with digital identity systems.<br />Omidyar is a supporter of the <a href="https://www.biometricupdate.com/201901/mission-billion-challenge-offers-100k-in-prizes-for-identity-data-privacy-innovation">Mission Billion Challenge</a>, among several initiatives related to UN SDG 16.9.</p>
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No publisherAdminInternet Governance2019-05-14T15:01:48ZNews ItemThis Twitter Account Puts a Face to the Unsung Volunteer Editors Behind Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/global-voices-online-june-18-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-twitter-account-puts-a-face-to-unsung-volunteer-editors-behind-wikipedia
<b>The life of a Wikipedia editor is an interesting one. Globally, about 100,000 editors edit the collaborative online encyclopedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.5 million in the English Wikipedia.</b>
<p>Click to read the post published on <a class="external-link" href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/06/18/this-twitter-account-puts-a-face-to-the-unsung-volunteer-editors-behind-wikipedia/">Global Voices here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">They dedicate a tremendous amount of their time to contribute and edit articles, but for no pay (editors work as volunteers) and for little public recognition – their work is credited via their usernames tucked away in the entry's edit history.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Now, one initiative is trying to shine the spotlight on these hard-working “Wikipedians.” <a href="http://wearewikipedia.wordpress.com/author/wearewikipedia/">WeAreWikipedia</a> is an unofficial project that brings on a different editor each week to curate information regarding their favorite Wikipedia pages and tweet them using the handle <a href="https://twitter.com/WeAreWikipedia">@WeAreWikipedia</a>. So far, 19 people representing 17 different language Wikipedias have curated the account.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">WeAreWikipedia explains on its blog that it was inspired by a weekly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_Curation">rotation curation</a> handle <a href="https://twitter.com/WeAreBangalore" target="_blank">@WeAreBangalore</a> created by social media strategists from the Indian city of Bangalore in October 2013 to create a space for Bangaloreans to tell their stories, give their opinions or simple connect with other active social media users in the area.</p>
<blockquote class="quoted" style="text-align: justify; ">Admin: Most of u r not aware that, one of our previous curators @psubhashish was inspired by us and started global #RoCur @WeAreWikipedia :)<br /> — Bangalore/Rajeev (@WeAreBangalore) June 17, 2014</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">@WeAreBangalore in turn took its cue from the highly successful @sweden, which turns over the Twitter handle to a different Swede every week as a sort of citizen ambassador program.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The WeAreWikipedia <a href="http://wearewikipedia.wordpress.com/curators/">curators</a> also tell personal stories and <a href="https://twitter.com/FloydKellyMusic/statuses/474769259021627393">explain the technicalities</a> of publishing and editing Wikipedia to any readers who ask.</p>
<blockquote class="quoted" style="text-align: justify; ">Wherever I go, local Wikipedians are so welcoming and so open to collaboration. I have made friends all around the globe.<br />— WeAreWikipedia (@WeAreWikipedia) <a class="external-link" href="https://twitter.com/WeAreWikipedia/statuses/478904734758490113">junio 17, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Curators often focus tweets on their Wikipedia language community and country. Two women editors from India, Noopur Raval and Netha Hussain, dedicated many of their publications to facts about women’s rights, issues and development in India while curating the handle during <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month" target="_blank">Women’s History Month</a> in March. They also drew attention to an <a href="http://wikiwomen.in/" target="_blank">edit-a-thon</a> held in Bangalore that brought <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/indian-wiki-women-history-month">90 women to write about 77 articles</a> related to women in India.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Mariona Aragay, an editor for the Catalan Wikipedia, made a related call for more women editors while she was at the helm of @WeAreWikipedia:</p>
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<p>As a wikipedian, it concernes me the low ratio of <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23woman&src=hash">#woman</a> editors: if you’re a wiki-girl, let us know your experience! <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23gendergap&src=hash">#gendergap</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WikiWomen">@wikiwomen</a></p>
<p>— WeAreWikipedia (@WeAreWikipedia) <a href="https://twitter.com/WeAreWikipedia/statuses/474257031621533696">June 4, 2014</a></p>
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<p>Curators also highlight community events, such as <a href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/04/08/odisha-dibasa-2014-14-books-released-under-cc-license/">Odisha Dibasa 2014,</a> a gathering at the end of March 2014 of the Odia-language Wikipedia community in the capital of the Indian state of Odisha, where the language is predominantly spoken.</p>
<p>Diptiman Panigrahi, an Odia editor who curated @WeAreWikipedia during the event, talked about his week in a <a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/twitter-weekly-curation-wearewikipedia-brings-one-wikipedian-every-week">blog post</a> for The Centre for Internet and Society in India:</p>
<blockquote class="quoted">It was a wonderful experience curating WeAreWikipedia without even much time. Meeting the entire Wikimedia global community was even more fun when I was telling happenings of my own community. I hope to take part in more of such collaborative global issues like this.</blockquote>
<p>You can follow WeAreWikipedia on <a href="https://twitter.com/WeAreWikipedia">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WeAreWikipediaProject">Facebook</a> and on their <a href="http://wearewikipedia.wordpress.com/">blog</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/global-voices-online-june-18-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-twitter-account-puts-a-face-to-unsung-volunteer-editors-behind-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/global-voices-online-june-18-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-twitter-account-puts-a-face-to-unsung-volunteer-editors-behind-wikipedia</a>
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No publishersubhaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2014-07-03T06:17:56ZBlog EntryThis little innovation is bringing a revolution in the Odia language
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/dna-february-3-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-little-innovation-is-bringing-revolution-in-odia-language
<b>Depicting human language within computing environments has always been a challenge: a given language's script and alphabet needs to be mapped to a coding system that a computer can process digitally. This is done by way of an encoding system that basically maps each character to a unique numeric code.</b>
<p>The article was published by <a class="external-link" href="http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-this-little-innovation-is-bringing-a-revolution-in-the-odia-language-2173325">DNA</a> on February 3, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was a standard approach for dealing with languages in the computing context. However, over time, many such encoding systems mushroomed. In 2012, Odisha-based non-profit Srujanika, with help from colleagues, created<strong> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://bitbucket.org/rebati/rebati/downloads" target="_blank">two text encoding converters</a> </strong>that could convert two different legacy non-Unicode based script encoding systems to the universally accepted Unicode. I personally tested and found a lot of typos. It seemed to me that one would take more time to convert and proofread than just typing the text.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a rel="nofollow" href="http://unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html" target="_blank"><strong>Unicode</strong></a> is a computing industry standard that provides a unique number for every character of the alphabet irrespective of the platform, program or script. Before the onset of Unicode there existed several other standards—such as <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.asciitable.com/" target="_blank">American Standard Code for Information Interchange</a></strong> (ASCII) and <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Script_Code_for_Information_Interchange" target="_blank">Indian Script Code for Information Interchange</a></strong> (ISCII)—that defined the manner in which letters of a particular language were depicted on a computer. The text encoding converters generally are used to convert them from one encoding systems to another.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">However, as proprietary and legacy encoding systems were so popular among the desktop publishing (DTP) operators, most Indian language media houses remained tied to their existing encoding systems even after Unicode was introduced. This led to editors, journalists, writers and many native language users having to reliable and intuitive way to input in their own language. For example, Unicode Odia resulted in a huge gap of Odia-language content online with users that depended on earlier, disjointed standards.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The converters I explained before could solve this problem partially as they could convert only two encoding systems with about 80% linguistic accuracy. While seeking help to enhance and scale up these existing converters, three Wikimedian-developers came forward to work on the available converters and create more foolproof ones. We worked together for hours spanning over a few months to make the converters better. When I asked my writer and journalist friends to test it, the result literally thrilled me as they all had started writing in Odia on Facebook the very next day.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">More blogs started coming in Odia and more social media interaction in Odia. Interestingly, popular newspaper Sarbasadharana.com and an online portal Odisha.com used it. Many even started contributing to blogs and online portals. It became much easier for Wikimedians to use existing resources from portals, newspapers and magazines to enrich Wikipedia. Some of the available soft copies of public domain books acquired and books that were relicensed to CC licenses could easily be used on Wikisource.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Though it is difficult to measure the exact percentage of growth for online Odia-language content on the Internet, a significant change is seen today as compared to the state of the Odia language on the internet six months ago. Almost all the federal entities that were stuck with two non-Unicode encoding systems finally moved to Unicode, with official portal odia.odisha.gov.in including adoption of Unicode in their core policy. As a gesture of support to the development, the federal department has included Odia Wikipedia on the top of their <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://odia.odisha.gov.in/it-tool-for-viewing-odia-in-browser.html" target="_blank">resources page</a></strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Recently, <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jnanaranjan_sahu" target="_blank">Jnanaranjan Sahu</a></strong>, one of core contributors to the project combined all the converters into a standalone on-wiki converter that is available both on <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Converter" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></strong> and <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://or.wikisource.org/wiki/WS:Converter" target="_blank">Wikisource</a></strong>. Many of the larger Odia language community have contributed in finding errors which were fixed. Jyanaranjan has made available a free <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://gyan111.github.com/" target="_blank">online responsive converter</a></strong> that not just works from a computer but also seamlessly work from any smartphone. The converter has indeed helped to widely use Odia on the Internet. The <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150406/jsp/frontpage/story_12966.jsp#.Vq7OahjMNE4" target="_blank">bigger dream</a></strong> of an Odia version of Google is closer to becoming real.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/dna-february-3-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-little-innovation-is-bringing-revolution-in-odia-language'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/dna-february-3-2016-subhashish-panigrahi-little-innovation-is-bringing-revolution-in-odia-language</a>
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No publishersubhaCIS-A2KOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-27T07:33:06ZBlog EntryThere is No Such Thing as Free Basics
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/bangalore-mirror-subhashish-panigrahi-february-9-2016-there-is-no-such-thing-as-free-basics
<b>India would not see the rain of Free Basics advertisements on billboards with images of farmers and common people explaining how much they could benefit from this Firefox project. Because the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has taken a historical step by banning the differential pricing without discriminating services.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The article was published in <a class="external-link" href="http://www.bangaloremirror.com/news/india/There-is-No-such-thing-as-Free-basics/articleshow/50908289.cms">Bangalore Mirror</a> on February 9, 2016.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">In their notes, TRAI has explained, "In India, given that a majority of the population are yet to be connected to the Internet, allowing service providers to define the nature of access would be equivalent of letting TSPs shape the users' Internet experience." Not just that, violation of this ban would cost Rs 50,000 every day.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Facebook's earlier plan was to launch Free Basics in India by making a few websites—that are mostly partners with Facebook—available for free. The company not just advertised heavily on billboards and commercials across the nation, it also embedded a campaign inside Facebook asking users to vote in support of Free Basics.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">TRAI criticised Facebook's attempt for such a manipulative public provocation. However, Facebook was heavily criticised by many policy and Internet advocates, including non-profits groups like Free Software Movement of India and Savetheinternet.in campaign.<br /><br />The latter two collectives were strongly discouraging Free Basics by bringing public opinion wherein Savetheinternet.org was used to send over 10 lakh emails to TRAI to disallow Free Basics.<br /><br />Furthermore 500 start ups including major ones like Cleartrip, Zomato, Practo, Paytm and Cleartax also wrote to prime minister Narendra Modi requesting continued support for Net Neutrality — a concept that advocates equal treating of websites — on the Republic Day.<br /><br />Stand-up comedy groups like AIB and East India Comedy had created humorous but informative videos explaining the regulatory debate and supporting net neutrality which went viral.<br /><br />Technology critic and Quartz writer Alice Truong reacted saying: "Zuckerberg almost portrays net neutrality as a first-world problem that doesn't apply to India because having some service is better than no service."<br /><br />In the light of differential pricing, news portal Medianama's founder Nikhil Pawa, in his opinion piece in Times of India, emphasised the way Aircel in India, Grameenphone in Bangladesh and Orange in Africa were providing free access to Internet with a sole motif of access to Internet, and criticised the walled Internet of Facebook that confines users inside Facebook only.<br /><br />Had the differential pricing been allowed, it would have affected start ups and content-based smaller companies adversely, as they could never have managed to pay the high price to a partner service provider to make their service available for free.<br /><br />On the other hand, tech-giants like Facebook could have easily managed to capture the entire market. Since the inception of the Facebook-run non-profit Internet.org has run into a lot of controversies because of the hidden motive behind the claimed support for social cause.<br /><br />The decision by the government has been welcomed largely in the country and outside.<br /><br />In support of the move, Web We Want programme manager at the World Wide Web Foundation, Renata Avila, has shared saying,<br /><br />"As the country with the second largest number of Internet users worldwide, this decision will resonate around the world.<br /><br />"It follows a precedent set by Chile, the United States, and others which have adopted similar net neutrality safeguards. The message is clear: We can't create a two-tier Internet — one for the haves, and one for the have-nots. We must connect everyone to the full potential of the open Web."</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/bangalore-mirror-subhashish-panigrahi-february-9-2016-there-is-no-such-thing-as-free-basics'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/bangalore-mirror-subhashish-panigrahi-february-9-2016-there-is-no-such-thing-as-free-basics</a>
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No publishersubhaFree BasicsTRAIFacebookInternet Governance2016-02-14T11:37:50ZBlog EntryThe largest Wikipedia gathering in South Asia kicks off
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/opensource.com-subhashish-panigrahi-august-5-2016-largest-wikipedia-gathering-in-south-asia-kicks-off
<b>Wikimedia Conference 2016Wiki Conference India 2016 (WCI), the largest gathering of contributors to Wikipedia and its sister projects in South Asia, will be held during August 5-7 this year in Chandigarh, India.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This was published <a class="external-link" href="https://opensource.com/life/16/8/wikipedia-conference-india-2016">Opensource.com</a> on August 5, 2016</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The first iteration of this event was five years ago in<a href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/02/wikiconference-india/" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/02/wikiconference-india/" target="_blank">2011</a>. The event is focused around <a href="https://opensource.com/life/16/2/why-its-essential-grow-indian-language-wikipedias" target="_blank">South Asian language Wikipedias</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Complete_list_of_Wikimedia_projects" target="_blank">Wikimedia projects</a>. Hundreds of participants, including over <a href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/05/27/wikiconference-india-scholarship/" target="_blank">100 scholarship holders</a> from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, will participate in this three-day event. A team of volunteers representing several Wikimedia communities across the country and three <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement_affiliates" target="_blank">Wikimedia affiliates</a>—<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India" target="_blank">Wikimedia India</a>,<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians" target="_blank">Punjabi Wikimedians</a> and<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K" target="_blank">Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge program</a>—are working together to make this event a success.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Several Wikimedia project and program-related talks, meetups and thematic workshops, focused on technology, program design, volunteer leadership building and engagement, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap" target="_blank">gender gap in Wikipedia</a>, global reach, and education, will keep the participants occupied. There will be separate technical tracks, which were chosen from the results of a pre-event <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EIgOuTjwzHqqR94m1GhDnbyKFkDG9HCXH-t17k8hZVQ/prefill" target="_blank">needs assessment survey</a> to ensure that community needs are met. Prior to the conference, a <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Punjab_Edit-a-thon" target="_blank">month-long edit-a-thon</a> has been running in twelve South Asian language Wikipedias, and one European language Wikipedia (Ukrainian Wikipedia). The focus of this sprint was to expand the content reach of Wikipedia on Punjab, Punjabi people, and their language and culture as the event is happening in Punjab. So far, more than 1900 articles have been created by about 150 Wikipedians, and the edit-a-thon will be also running during the conference to keep the option of creating more articles open to the participants. Some of the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016#Guests" target="_blank">guests</a> includes Wikimedia Foundation's board member <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominations/Nataliia_Tymkiv" target="_blank">Nataliia Tymkiv</a>, the organization's newly promoted executive director <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Maher" target="_blank">Catherine Maher</a>, Punjabi-language poet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surjit_Patar" target="_blank">Surjit Patar</a> and Internet freedom advocate and Centre for Internet and Society's Executive Director <a href="http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team#sunil" target="_blank">Sunil Abraham</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As compared to the last WikiConference India, this conference has more thematic focus, especially on challenges like the gender bias on Wikipedia, and emerging projects like the Wikipedia Education Program. There are as many as six presentations related to gender gap, and six more related to education program.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There has been constant engagement on both on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WikiConferenceIndia2016" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/WikiConIndia" target="_blank">Twitter</a> with the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=WCI2016&src=typd" target="_blank">#WCI2016</a>. Some of the most-used <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Basic_Phrases" target="_blank">basic phrases in the Punjabi language</a> have been recorded and shared to the participants from outside the region to communicate with the locals.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/opensource.com-subhashish-panigrahi-august-5-2016-largest-wikipedia-gathering-in-south-asia-kicks-off'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/opensource.com-subhashish-panigrahi-august-5-2016-largest-wikipedia-gathering-in-south-asia-kicks-off</a>
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No publishersubhaWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-08-06T17:11:39ZBlog EntryThe Intellects holds 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/odisha-news-february-22-2016-intellects-holds-second-international-conclave-of-odia-language
<b>The Intellects, a Delhi-based progressive forum of intellectuals, held the 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language at the India International Centre in New Delhi today.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event and won an award. Look for the coverage by Odisha News <a class="external-link" href="http://www.odishanewsinsight.com/events/the-intellects-holds-2nd-international-conclave-of-odia-language/">here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The seminar had the title of ‘Aamari Bhasha Pathe’. The conclave was inaugurated by eminent Novelist and Writer Dr. Bibhuti Pattnaik and Rajya Sabha MP Baishnab Charan Parida among others. In the inaugural session, the speakers, including Shri Baishnab Parida, Dr. Natabar Satpathy, Dr. Amarendra Khatua, Poet Sankarshan Parida, Dr. Iti Samanta, Smt. Mamata Mohapatra, Mr. Subhasish Panigrahi stressed on the need of promotion of Odia language and its development on the global arena. They highlighted various angles of Odia language, its history and the challenges it faced apart from outlining the modalities to give it a big boost.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the second leg, a Poets’ Conference was held. Dr. Jagannath Prasad Das, Dr. Amarendra Khatua, Poet Sankarshan Parida, Dr. Anita Panda, Poet Gajanan Mishra, Smt. Yashodhara Mishra, Poet Manas Ranjan Mohapatra and many other recited poems.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In the last leg, Kendra Sahitya Akademi President, Dr. Vishwanath Tiwari and Sir Mark Tully (former Bureau Chief of BBC, New Delhi), graced the occasion among others. Several eminent personalities were honoured and received the awards from The Intellects.</p>
<p><strong>Ama Gourav Samman</strong> – Shri Bibhuti Pattnaik</p>
<p><strong>Amari Bhasha Pathe Samman:</strong></p>
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<li>Shri Baishnab Parida</li>
<li>Dr. Amarendra Khatua</li>
<li>Smt. Kunu Dash</li>
<li>Dr. Iti Samanta</li>
<li>Dr. Natabar Satpathy</li>
<li>Shri Gajanan Mishra</li>
<li>Shri Sankarshan Parida</li>
<li>Smt. Mamata Mohapatra</li>
<li>Shri Kulamani Biswal</li>
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<p><strong>Yuva Prerana Samman:</strong></p>
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<li>Shri Subhasish Panigrahi</li>
<li>Shri Manoranjan Mohanty</li>
<li>Shri Subhranshu Panda</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Swabhimani Odia Sanghthan Samman:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Biswajit Dash (IPROCH)</li>
<li>Sanjeev Mohanty (Odisha Forum)</li>
<li>Bijaya Kumar Dash (Sukha Dukha Prakashan)</li>
</ul>
<p>Shri Debendra Rout, Chairman of The Intellects and Parambrahma Tripathy, Secretary (Literature), The Intellects, organised the event successfully with all their hard efforts.</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/odisha-news-february-22-2016-intellects-holds-second-international-conclave-of-odia-language'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/odisha-news-february-22-2016-intellects-holds-second-international-conclave-of-odia-language</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-27T05:35:17ZNews ItemThe India Chronicles
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf
<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>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf'>https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishna2011-10-14T09:13:15ZFileThe First Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop
https://cis-india.org/openness/first-punjabi-wikipedia-workshop
<b>For those who might not be aware, Punjabi Wikipedia is one of the first Indic Wikipedias where community started editing way back in 2002. However, after the initial few edits all activities got stopped and it was inactive over the last decade. Recently we conducted a few workshops that led to the revival of Punjabi Wikipedia. This post is about the first Punjabi Wikipedia workshop held in Ludhiana, Punjab on July 28, 2012.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Surinder Wadhawan, a Mumbai based Wikipedian played an important role in designing this workshop and introducing Punjabi Wikipedia to the Punjabi speakers. The interest and enthusiam showed by Surinder encouraged long-time Punjabi wikipedian G.S.Guglani to join this workshop.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">About 25 participants came over for this workshop. The College of Computer and Information Technology (CCIT) supported in hosting this event.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Sarabjit Singh, CEO of the organization introduced the invited guests and explained briefly about the session. Surinder thereafter made a presentation explaining the basics of Wikipedia editing. Guglani, one of the old and active editors of Punjabi Wikipedia talked about the Punjabi Wikipedia and its present situation. He then invited one of the participants and helped her creating her user account and edit an article. Janmeja Singh, a Punjabi language researcher spoke about unicode standards and the importance of Wikipedia for Punjabi language. Gurjeet Singh, another new wikipedian demonstrated Punjabi typing using commonly used keyboards with Roman characters for those who were not aware of typing in Punjabi.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We then started the editing session. Out of them 15 new editors (of which 13 were female) edited various articles. We showed them the typing support page (<a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/Uw8WaV">http://bit.ly/Uw8WaV</a>) on Punjabi Wikipedia and distributed the same in printed form (<a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/Rk9wde">http://bit.ly/Rk9wde</a>). Guglani, Subhashish and Surinder helped editors with basic editing and referencing. New Wikipedians were also informed about the Punjabi Wikipedia Facebook page (<a class="external-link" href="http://on.fb.me/Pr7tBE">http://on.fb.me/Pr7tBE</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/PunjabiWikipedia" target="_blank"></a>).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><img alt="File:1st Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop-9.jpg" height="600" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/1st_Punjabi_Wikipedia_Workshop-9.jpg/800px-1st_Punjabi_Wikipedia_Workshop-9.jpg" width="800" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; ">Above is a picture of all the participants from the Punjabi Wikipedia workshop</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop was covered in Signpost (<a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/SSvUYh">http://bit.ly/SSvUYh</a>). There was some media coverage as well:</p>
<ul>
<li>Daily Ajit: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/OWPozC">http://bit.ly/OWPozC</a></li>
<li>The Tribune: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/UMrDvs">http://bit.ly/UMrDvs</a></li>
<li>Hindustan Times: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/UMrNTn">http://bit.ly/UMrNTn</a></li>
<li>PunjabInfoline: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/UZhoT8">http://bit.ly/UZhoT8</a></li>
<li>YesPunjab.com: <a class="external-link" href="http://bit.ly/OcMANc">http://bit.ly/OcMANc</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Photos: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:First_Punjabi_Wikipedia_Workshop,_Ludhiana" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:First_Punjabi_Wikipedia_Workshop,_Ludhiana</a></p>
<p><b>Note:</b> Although the workshop was conducted prior to the grant period, the report was written in the month of September, and hence, we are featuring this.</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/first-punjabi-wikipedia-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/openness/first-punjabi-wikipedia-workshop</a>
</p>
No publisherShiju Alex and Subhashish PanigrahiOpennessAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2012-10-04T12:16:44ZBlog EntryThe Dynamics of Education to Employment Journey: Opportunities and Challenges
https://cis-india.org/news/dynamics-of-education-to-employment-journey
<b>KIIT School of Management, KIIT Univeristy is holding the 7th National Management Convention 2014 at its campus in Bhubaneswar on February 21 and 22, 2014. T. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi have been invited to address the students of KIIT University.</b>
<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/nmc-e-brochure" class="internal-link">Click to download the event brochure</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi spoke at the event and also evaluated submissions by students and researchers. Subhashish's presentation titled Redefining Education to Employment Journey: Voices of the Youth/Students can be <a class="external-link" href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Redefining_Education_to_Employment_Journey-_Voices_of_the_youth_and_students_-_Subhashish_Panigrahi.pdf">accessed here</a>.</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/dynamics-of-education-to-employment-journey'>https://cis-india.org/news/dynamics-of-education-to-employment-journey</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2014-04-14T09:40:19ZNews ItemTalk on bringing 1000 books about the culture of Maharashtra on Marathi Wikipedia
https://cis-india.org/openness/discussion-on-bringing-peshwa-culture-on-marathi-wikipedia
<b>Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha, a Pune based non-profit that was founded in Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade and colleagues in 1894, has recently announced to digitise their 1000 volumes of books centred around Peshwa culture. A discussion about digitising these books and making them available online on Marathi Wikisource is being organised on December 1 at the Energy Resources Institute(TERI), Bengaluru. Avinash Chaphekar, Joint Secretary of MGS will be addressing this talk.</b>
<p>Books published by Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) vastly cover the Peshwa culture of Maharashtra apart from many other significant aspects of the history of Maharashtra. The books will be digitised on the Marathi-language Wikisource (<a class="external-link" href="https://mr.wikisource.org">mr.wikisource.org</a>) by the Marathi Wikimedia community. Marathi Wikisource is a sister project of <a class="external-link" href="https://mr.wikipedia.org">Marathi Wikipedia</a> and is a free online Marathi-language library. Started in 2012, it currently houses about 800 volumes of Marathi books.</p>
<p>MGS was founded in Pune by Justice M. G. Ranade, Dr. Ramkrishna Bhandarkar and Lokamanya Tilak in 1894. Earlier known Deccan Vernacular Translation Society, it was renamed as Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha in 1948. The Society has a collection of invaluable literary treasure like 100 yrs old rare literary work and manuscripts, Peshwa diaries and records, Justice Ranade's correspondence, 30 thesis on various subjects and many different domains. These collections make the institution a great place for study and research. Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) celebrated its 121st anniversary recently at Pune, MGS donated 1000 books for Marathi Wikisource so that the books could be digitised and be made available for millions of Marathi readers. Avinash Chaphekar, Joint Secretary of the organisation who will be addressing the talk that is being organised by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru.</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/discussion-on-bringing-peshwa-culture-on-marathi-wikipedia'>https://cis-india.org/openness/discussion-on-bringing-peshwa-culture-on-marathi-wikipedia</a>
</p>
No publishersubhaMarathi WikipediaAccess to KnowledgeMarathi Wikisource2020-05-02T16:39:00ZEventSubhashish Panigrahi joins Open GLAM Working Group
https://cis-india.org/news/open-glam-working-group-members-subhashish-panigrahi
<b>Subhashish recently joined the OpenGLAM Working Group (a global network of people who work to open up cultural data and content.) as a member and OpenGLAM Local (a local affiliate of OKFN's OpenGLAM project) as an ambassador for India. Both the positions will be voluntary. </b>
<h2>OpenGLAM Working Group</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The OpenGLAM Working Group is a global network of people who work to open up cultural data and content. We run workshops and provide documentation for cultural institutions wanting to open up their data as well as organise events bringing together groups that are committed to building an open cultural commons. The Working Group Members act as a bridge between different organisations and initiatives, and the global network. We meet every month virtually to discuss relevant updates, pressing issues, and next steps to be taken. If you are interested in joining, please get in touch with <a href="mailto:openglam.org">openglam@okfn.org</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Read the full details <a class="external-link" href="http://openglam.org/working-group/">on this page</a>.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Open GLAM Local</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">OpenGLAM has established several local groups as well as <a class="external-link" href="http://openglam.org/local/">OpenGLAM ambassadors</a> to serve as the local point of contact in their area. They are closely connected to the Local Groups of the Open Knowledge Foundation and work on open culture in these local groups. Subhashish Panigrahi is the local contact in India.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/open-glam-working-group-members-subhashish-panigrahi'>https://cis-india.org/news/open-glam-working-group-members-subhashish-panigrahi</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2014-05-27T09:40:40ZNews ItemSubhashish Panigrahi
https://cis-india.org/home-images/Subhashish.jpg
<b>Subhashish</b>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/home-images/Subhashish.jpg'>https://cis-india.org/home-images/Subhashish.jpg</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishna2012-10-02T05:48:09ZImageSubhashish
https://cis-india.org/home-images/copy_of_Subhashish.jpg
<b>Subhashish Panigrahi</b>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/home-images/copy_of_Subhashish.jpg'>https://cis-india.org/home-images/copy_of_Subhashish.jpg</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishna2015-02-05T14:24:51ZImageSubhashish
https://cis-india.org/home-images/Subha.jpg
<b>Subhashish</b>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/home-images/Subha.jpg'>https://cis-india.org/home-images/Subha.jpg</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishna2014-08-13T00:43:33ZImageState Level Seminar on "Odia alphabet and order teaching in primary education"
https://cis-india.org/openness/news/odia-alphabet-and-order-teaching-in-primary-education
<b>Subhashish Panigrahi participated in a state-level seminar on "Number of Odia characters and order teaching in primary education" (ପ୍ରଥମ ଶ୍ରେଣୀରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଅକ୍ଷର ସଂଖ୍ୟା ଓ କ୍ରମଶିକ୍ଷା) co-organised by Institute of Odia Studies and Research, and Odia Bhasa Pratisthan in Bhubaneswar on September 14, 2014. </b>
<p>Subhashish discussed about the applied aspects of Odia language in the context of primary education and need for reforms in the total number and order in the character-set citing problems with computer and internet.</p>
<p>The reports of the event are given below:</p>
<table class="listing">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Prameya1.png" alt="Prameya" class="image-inline" title="Prameya" /></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Above: Report of the event published in Prameya</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="listing">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Dharitri.png" alt="Dharitri" class="image-inline" title="Dharitri" /></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Above: Report of the event published in Dharitri</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="listing">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/Samaja.png" alt="Samaja" class="image-inline" title="Samaja" /></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Above: Report of the event published in Samaja</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/news/odia-alphabet-and-order-teaching-in-primary-education'>https://cis-india.org/openness/news/odia-alphabet-and-order-teaching-in-primary-education</a>
</p>
No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOdia WikipediaOpenness2014-09-30T08:51:05ZNews Item