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Zero Project Conference on Accessibility: Innovative Policies and Practices for Persons with Disabilities
https://cis-india.org/news/zero-project-conference-vienna-february-27-28-2014
<b>Essl Foundation, the World Future Council and the European Foundation Centre convened an international conference at the United Nations Office in Vienna, Austria on February 27 and 28, 2014. Pranesh Prakash participated in the conference as a speaker. On February 27 he spoke on e-speak and on the following day (February 28) he spoke in a session on Copyright & the Marrakesh Treaty: Opportunities and Challenges.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The conference was attended by over 450 people. Dr. Nirmita Narasimhan had submitted two proposals, one on innovative practices (eSpeak) and one on innovative policy (India's copyright policy). Click on the links below to find more on these:</p>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://zeroproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/India_eSpeak-Text-to-Speech-Engine.pdf">Affordable text-to-speech software from India</a></li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://zeroproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Copyright-Amendment-Act_India.pdf">Copyright exception for accessible formats</a></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Once again, the Essl Foundation, the World Future Council and the European Foundation Centre have joined forces to convene an international conference in Vienna, Austria. On this occasion we aim to raise awareness about innovative solutions from around the world that advance accessibility for persons with disabilities. The conference seeks to strengthen the commitment of all stakeholders to promote, protect and advance the rights of persons with disabilities, and to improve their daily lives.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">At the third Zero Project Conference on “Accesibility: Innovative Policies and Innovative Practices for Persons with Disabilities” parliamentarians, representatives of NGOs and foundations, academics, social entrepreneurs, disability rights activists and the business world will come together to discuss Innovative Policies and Innovative Practices and explore ways to promote and spread them to other countries.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Innovative Policies: Paving the Way</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Building on the success of our conferences in January 2012 and February 2013, at this Zero Project Conference, 15 Innovative Policies will be presented. They contain promising elements, have achieved identifiable improvements on the ground and point to a positive dynamic change that can be easily replicated in many countries around the world to advance the implementation of the Convention. They overcome conditions that act as barriers to the full exercise of rights by persons with disabilities and constitute the outcome of a multilevel research and selection process.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Innovative Practices: Crucial Steps</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Zero Project team has done extensive research worldwide on the most outstanding projects. The expert network that contributed their expertise in actively nominating and evaluating projects included more than 500 persons worldwide from 120 countries.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">These projects cover all areas of accessibility, including built environment, transport, products and services and ICT (information, communication and technology).</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Be part of the Zero Project Network!</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Zero Project Conference gathers in Vienna the world’s leading representatives of the disability rights movement in order to facilitate a direct exchange of experiences. In this way the world’s most innovative and promising solutions are jointly identified, disseminated and further developed in order to make a noticeable improvement in the daily life and legal situation of persons with disabilities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Join the discussion and explore possibilities and potentials on how global implementation of these exemplary solutions can be advanced!</p>
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<li> Click here to see the <a class="external-link" href="http://zeroproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/At-a-glance-barrierfree-FINAL2.doc">programme schedule</a></li>
<li>Click here to see the <a class="external-link" href="http://zeroproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Speakerslist-ZPC-20141.pdf">speakers list</a></li>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/zero-project-conference-vienna-february-27-28-2014'>https://cis-india.org/news/zero-project-conference-vienna-february-27-28-2014</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCopyrightAccessibilityAccess to Knowledge2014-03-06T08:44:00ZNews ItemYouths come forward to augment Assamese Wikisource project
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/northeast-now-may-17-2019-youths-come-forward-to-augment-assamese-wikisource-project
<b>Assamese Wikisource is a sister-project of Assamese Wikipedia, where Assamese books with expired copyrights are available.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The blog post was published in <a class="external-link" href="https://nenow.in/north-east-news/youths-come-forward-to-augment-assamese-wikisource-project.html">NE NOW NEWS</a> on May 17, 2019.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">In order to take the <a href="https://nenow.in/north-east-news/assam/assam-cm-welcomes-decision-to-include-assamese-language-in-kvs.html">Assamese</a> Wikisource project forward, few young men and women of the state involving in different fields, recently gathered in Guwahati to attend a workshop.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Assamese Wikisource is a sister-project of Assamese <a href="https://nenow.in/north-east-news/tripura/tripura-cm.html">Wikipedia</a>, where Assamese books with expired copyrights are available. The project owned by Wikimedia Foundation was launched in 2013.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A total of 14 volunteers from across the state participated in the workshop hosted by Centre for Internet and Society-Access to knowledge (CIS-A2K) in a city hotel.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Two experts–Jayanta Nath from Kolkata and Tito Dutta from Bangalore–were present as trainers for the workshop, say organisers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The two-day event was coordinated by Gitartha Bordoloi, a physician based in Silchar and the administrator of Assamese Wikipedia and Wikisource.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">“Wikisource sources hosts books, plays, lyrics, letters etc which are available in open source,” says an organiser.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">PDF or similar files are added to Wikisource which are then converted to unicode form so that every information becomes searchable on the internet.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In addition to books that are hitherto copyright free, new books can also be donated by authors and can be added to the field.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Everyone can access and contribute to this collaborative project. Presently, Assamese Wikisource stands at ninth position out of eleven Indic languages. This can be due to less Wikisource projects and also lack of contributors.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In addition to the basic navigation on Wikisource, the participants learnt searching and uploading public domain works, using OCR to get the texts, correcting errors and creating final product for the readers, he says.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As a part of the workshop, the participants fully digitised three old Assamese books within a few hours. They also discussed the future aims, perspectives and goals of Assamese Wikipedia and Wikisource.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As a result of their persistent efforts, works of <a href="https://nenow.in/north-east-news/assam/satriya-exponent-basistha-dev-sarma-gets-srimanta-sankardev-award.html">Srimanta Sankardev</a> and Madhabdev, <a href="https://nenow.in/north-east-news/assam/assam-renovation-for-assamese-writer-lakshminath-bezbaroas-house-begins.html">Lakshminath Bezbaroa</a>, Jyotiprasad Agarwala, Rajanikanta Bordoloi, Hiteshwar Barbarua and some others are now available on Assamese Wikisource.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">With the target of digitizing the books by an author in every one or two months, the volunteers have mulled to digitize the works of Padmanath Gohain Baruah, a luminary of Assamese literature.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/northeast-now-may-17-2019-youths-come-forward-to-augment-assamese-wikisource-project'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/northeast-now-may-17-2019-youths-come-forward-to-augment-assamese-wikisource-project</a>
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No publisherNE NOW NEWSWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2019-05-21T16:03:43ZNews ItemYouth is responsible for protecting Telugu
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-telugu-wikipedia-january-14-2016-youth-responsible-for-protecting-telugu
<b>G. Umamaheshwara Rao, head of linguist research at Hyderabad Central university observed that there is every possibility for Telugu to be extinct soon. Its responsibility of youth to protect and preserve the language. And it is Wikipedia which would help in doing so. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A program was arranged to inaugurate Telugu Wkipedia digital resource center at Andhra Loyola College. Others who were present were Dr. Samala Ramesh Babu, Editor Ammanudi magazine, Fr. GAP Kishore, Principal, Rahmanuddin, Program officer, CIS-A2K, Prof B. Sivakumari, Botany dept, N Srinivas, Statistics dept, Kola Sekhara, Telugu dept, Pavan Santhosh, PA, CIS-A2K.A workshop for 40 students (10 each from Botany, Telugu, Physics and Statistics) took place from 11 to 13 January in the college campus.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Scanned version of article published by Eenaudu on January 14, 2016<br /><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/eenadu1412016.jpg" alt="null" class="image-inline" title="Eenadu Article" /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-telugu-wikipedia-january-14-2016-youth-responsible-for-protecting-telugu'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-telugu-wikipedia-january-14-2016-youth-responsible-for-protecting-telugu</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaCIS-A2KTelugu WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-05T20:49:00ZNews ItemYou Too Can Write on Wikipedia! — Training workshop
https://cis-india.org/events/you-too-can-write-on-wikipedia-2014-training-workshop
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team in collaboration with Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation and National Institute of Tourims and Hospitality Management is organizing a two-days training workshop (December 5-6, 2013) in Gachibowli, Hyderabad.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As you may know, Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, and is the 5th most-visited website in the world! It's completely free to use and re-use, it has no advertising, and is available in more than 280 different languages - including 20+ Indian languages. Wikipedia articles are written by ordinary people who volunteer to share their knowledge with the world.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">What will you gain from Wikipedia editing?</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">It improves <b>writing skills</b>. Wikipedia provides students/professionals/researchers a platform to hone their writing skills. Writing on Wikipedia enhances <b>critical thinking</b> and the ability<b> to </b>see all sides of a story. Students will find this incredibility useful in both their personal and professional lives while evaluating the pros and cons of different situations, projects, assignments etc. Wikipedia editing also strengthens <b>research skills</b>. A Wikipedia editor has to provide credible references by looking up books, journals and online materials. Writing on Wikipedia is a good practice for those who will also work on a thesis or a research project.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Your articles will be read by thousands of people across the globe</b>. If you edit a Wikipedia article, it is there *forever* and the audience can be any number from the 500 million who read Wikipedia every month!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>It'll boost your chances in admissions or scholarships or placements</b>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>It teaches students how to collaborate!</b> Editing Wikipedia is magical. You add some content and someone from some other part of the class or school or town or country or somewhere else in the world adds a little bit more and makes the contribution that much better. Wikipedia helps one learn how to work productively with other people, even those you don’t know and may never actually meet.</p>
<p>The workshop will cover the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>What exactly is Wikipedia and how does it work?</li>
<li>Who edits Wikipedia?</li>
<li>How do I edit Wikipedia? </li>
<li>What can I edit?</li>
<li>How can I input text in Indian languages?</li>
<li>How do I insert images?</li>
<li>How do I find and add references?</li>
<li>Do’s and Don’ts</li>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Schedule</h2>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">December 5, 2013</span> (Day 1)</p>
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<th>Timing</th><th>Activity</th>
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<td>09.30 to 10.00 a.m.</td>
<td>Welcome and Introduction</td>
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<td>10.00 to 11.15 a.m.</td>
<td>Building Knowledge Bases and Platforms via Mass Collaboration on the Internet</td>
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<tr>
<td>11.15 to 11.30 a.m.</td>
<td>Tea/Coffee Break</td>
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<td>11.30 to 01.00 p.m.</td>
<td>Wikipedia demonstration + Basics of Wikipedia Editing (hands on activity)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>01.00 to 02.00 p.m.</td>
<td>Lunch Break</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>02.00 to 02.15 p.m.</td>
<td>Energizer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>02.15 to 03.45 p.m.</td>
<td>Basics of Wikipedia Editing (Hands on activity)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>03.45 to 04.00 p.m.</td>
<td>Tea/Coffee Break</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>04.00 to 05.30 p.m.</td>
<td>NPOV on Wikipedia (Spectrogram activity)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>05.30 to 05.45 p.m.</td>
<td>Look back on what has worked and what has not</td>
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</tbody>
</table>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">December 6, 2013</span> (Day 2)</p>
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<tbody>
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<th>Timing</th><th>Activity</th>
</tr>
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<td>09.30 to 11.15 a.m.</td>
<td>Advanced Wikipedia Editing (Hands on activity)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11.15 to 11.30 a.m.</td>
<td>Tea/Coffee Break<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11.30 to 01.00 p.m.</td>
<td>On Wiki activity</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>01.00 to 02.00 p.m.</td>
<td>Lunch Break<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>02.00 to 02.15 p.m.</td>
<td>Energizer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>02.15 to 03.45 p.m.</td>
<td>Wikimedia projects and Tourism</td>
</tr>
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<td>03.45 to 04.00 p.m.</td>
<td>Tea/Coffee Break<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>04.00 to 05.30 p.m.</td>
<td>Group Activity – Wiki projects on Tourism</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>05.30 to 05.45 p.m.</td>
<td>Feedback and Closing session</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<ul>
<li>For map of the venue: click this link: <a class="external-link" href="http://sh.st/r90j">http://sh.st/r90j</a></li>
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<li>For venue: click this link: <a class="external-link" href="http://sh.st/r889">http://sh.st/r889</a></li>
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<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/events/you-too-can-write-on-wikipedia-2014-training-workshop'>https://cis-india.org/events/you-too-can-write-on-wikipedia-2014-training-workshop</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to KnowledgeWikimediaWikipediaOpennessEvent2013-12-06T07:55:38ZEventYogyakarta Meeting on Open Culture and Critical Making
https://cis-india.org/news/yogyakarta-meeting-on-open-culture-and-critical-making
<b>Sharath Chandra Ram will be part of the ASIA LABS theme panel and will also be doing community FOSS/FOSH workshops at the Maker events at the event organized by HONF Foundation, Catec, and r0g from June 12 to 15, 2014. </b>
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<p>Venues : Langgeng Art Foundation (LAF) , Ndalem Mangkubumen, Widya Mataram University</p>
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<p><span>side event:<b><br /> 03.00pm – 05.30pm (FABLAB_OD24h):</b></span><br /> <span> Opening Workshop at HONFablab (Fablab Yogyakarta)</span><br /> <b><span>DrawDio Workshop by Helmi Hardian (WAFT, SBY)</span></b></p>
<p><b>OPENING | 12 June 2014</b><br /> 07.00 PM at Langgeng Art Foundation (LAF) Yogyakarta</p>
<p><b>07.00pm – 07.15pm :</b><br /> Opening Performance, by Dream Orchestra</p>
<p><b>07.15pm – 07.45pm: Welcome Speech and Outline:</b><br /> - Ilham Habibie (The Habibie Center, CATEC)<br /> - Stephen Kovats (r0g_)<br /> - Venzha Christ (HONF Foundation) and presents:<br /> - Bapak Muchsan. (Rector of Widya Mataram Univ.)<br /> - Bapak. J. Eka Prijatma (Rector of Sanata Dharma Univ.)<br /> - Gregorius Subanar (Sanata Dharma University)</p>
<p><b>08.00pm – 08.30pm:</b><br /> <b>Screening Movie “DO TIMI MAKE SINDI”</b><br /> Speech: Gentur Suria (Movie Director)</p>
<p><b>Opening Exhibition “DO! MAKE!”</b><br /> Speech: Irene Agrivina (Exhibition Curator)</p>
<p><b>08.30pm – 10.00pm:</b><br /> <b>Collaborative Visual and Sound Performance by:</b><br /> - Felix Deufel and Friends (DE)<br /> - DJ Wok The Rock (YK)<br /> - DJ Haman & DJ Ones (YK)</p>
<p>Welcoming Dinner</p>
<p><b>10.00pm – 12.00pm:</b><br /> <b>Critical Cocktail Session 1.0</b><br /> Introduction-get together</p>
<p><b>———————–<br /> <span>Side Event:<b><br /> <b>(FABLAB_OD24h):</b><br /> 12 June 2014 | 11.00pm – 12.00pm<br /> Midnight Workshop at HONFablab (Fablab Yogyakarta)<br /> </b></span></b><span>Intelligent Furniture Workshop by DORXLab</span><br /> <b>———————–</b></p>
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<p><b>CONFERENCE DAY#01 | 13 June 2014<br /> </b>at Ndalem Mangkubumen, Widya Mataram University</p>
<p><span>Side Event:<b><br /> <b>(FABLAB_OD24h):</b><br /> 13 June 2014 | 09.00am – 11.00am<br /> Morning Workshop at HONFablab (Fablab Yogyakarta)<br /> </b>Edible Book Workshop by Saad Chinoy</span><br /> <b>———————–</b></p>
<p><b>09.00am – 09.15am:</b><br /> <b>15 mins Body and Mind Excercise</b><br /> short meditation by Craig Warren Smith</p>
<p><b>09.30am – 10.00am:</b><br /> <b>[proto:type] A </b><br /> Opening Speech<br /> <b>Introduction to [proto:type] Y2014 Yogyakarta Meeting of Open Culture and Critical Making</b><br /> Technology and Society<br /> by Ilham Habibie (The Habibie Center, CATEC)</p>
<p><b>10.00am – 11.30:</b><br /> <b>[proto:type] B Session I</b><br /> <b>“Open System and Critical ICT4D”</b><br /> Moderator: Gregorius Subanar<br /> Panelist:<br /> - Craig Warren Smith<br /> - Etiene Turpin<br /> - Eku Wand<br /> - Sanata Dharma ICT4D<br /> - Yantisa Akhadi</p>
<p>11.45am – 12.30pm:<br /> Break | Friday Prayer</p>
<p>12.30pm – 01.15pm:<br /> Open Cultures/P2P Intro & Lunch</p>
<p><span>side event:</span><br /> <span> 10.00am – 01.30pm:</span><br /> <span> <b>Open Workshop at Makers Booth</b>, Limasan Ndalem Mangkubumen, Widya Mataram University</span><br /> <span> Sticthing on Plywood session I by Maken Living Indonesia</span></p>
<p><span><b>01.30pm – 03.00pm:</b><br /> <b>[proto:type] B Session II</b><br /> <b>“Open Design and Critical Making”</b><br /> Moderator: Bertha Bintari<br /> Panelist:<br /> - Deanna Herst<br /> - Steve McCoy<br /> - Jean Nöel Montagne<br /> - Stefania Druga<br /> - Yoyok Wahyudi Subroto<br /> - Enda Nasution<br /> - Matt Rato (live stream)</span></p>
<p><span>side event:</span><br /> <span> 02.00pm – 04.00pm:</span><br /> <span> <b>Open Workshop at Makers Booth</b>, Limasan Ndalem Mangkubumen, Widya Mataram University</span><br /> <span> Fun with Arduino Workshop by Yudianto Asmoro</span> <span>03.00pm – 05.30pm:</span><br /> <span> <b><b>(FABLAB_OD24h):</b><br /> Afternoon Workshop at HONFablab (Fablab Yogyakarta)<br /> </b>Noise2Noise Workshop by Felix Deufel</span></p>
<p><b>03.00pm – 03.30pm:</b><br /> <b>Critical Cocktail Break</b></p>
<p><b>04.00pm – 05.00pm:</b><br /> <b>[proto:type] C Session III</b><br /> <b>“Asia Labs”</b><br /> Moderator: Argha Mahendra<br /> Panelist:<br /> - Tommy Surya (Fablab Asia Network)<br /> - Jay Fajardo (Launch Garage – SEA Labs)<br /> - Irene Agrivina (HONF)</p>
<p><b>———————–<br /> </b><span>side event:</span><br /> <span> 04.00pm – 05.30pm:</span><br /> <span> <b>Open Workshop at Makers Booth</b>, Limasan Ndalem Mangkubumen, Widya Mataram University</span><br /> <span> Make! with 3D Printer workshop by Weissa Adhiprasetya</span><br /> <b>———————–</b></p>
<p><b>05.00pm – 05.30pm:</b><br /> <b>[proto:type] D Session IV</b><br /> <b>“Community Development Forum”</b><br /> 05.00pm – 05.30pm: Session 4.1 “Open Ecology and Sustainable”<br /> 10 mins presentation for each presenter:<br /> - Performance Klub<br /> - Rumah Kardus<br /> - DORXLab</p>
<p>05.30pm: Break | Maghrib | Dawn Pray</p>
<p>06.00pm – 06.30pm: Session 4.2 “(H)acktivism as an open solution<br /> 10 mins presentation for each presenter:<br /> - XXLab<br /> - WAFT<br /> - LPTI Pelataran Mataram</p>
<p>06.30pm – 07.00pm: Session 4.3: Citizen participation for social change<br /> 10 mins presentation for each presenter:<br /> - Hysteria<br /> - C2O<br /> - Explainer Maker</p>
<p>07.00pm – 07.45pm: Session 4.4: Development at the Entrepreneurial & Grassroots Level<br /> 10 mins presentation for each presenter:<br /> - House The House<br /> - Klub Makan Siang<br /> - Jalan Emas<br /> - Technonatura</p>
<p><b>07.45pm: Jalan Emas Documentation</b></p>
<p><b>08.00pm – 09.30pm: </b><br /> <b>[proto:type] DINNER: MEET & GREET</b><br /> Venue: Ndalem Kaneman, Widya Mataram University<br /> Gamelan and performance by Among Bekso Dance</p>
<p><b>———————–</b><br /> <span>09.00pm – 11.30pm:</span><br /> <span> <b><b>(FABLAB_OD24h):</b><br /> Midnight Workshop at HONFablab (Fablab Yogyakarta)<br /> </b>Fun with Electronics Workshop by Satya Anindita</span><br /> <b>———————–</b></p>
<p><b>10.00pm – 12.00pm:</b><br /> <b>FAB BAR</b><br /> venue: HONFablab (Fablab Yogyakarta)</p>
<p><b>CONFERENCE DAY#02 | 14 June 2014<br /> </b>at Ndalem Mangkubumen, Widya Mataram University</p>
<p><b>09.00am – 09.15am:</b><br /> <b>15 mins Body and Mind Excercise</b><br /> short meditation by Craig Warren Smith</p>
<p><span><b>———————–</b><br /> side event:<br /> 09.00am – 10.30am:<br /> <b><b>(FABLAB_OD24h):</b><br /> Morning Workshop at HONFablab (Fablab Yogyakarta)<br /> Explainer Maker by Andre Takdare</b></span><br /> <span>10.00am – 01.30pm:</span><br /> <span><b>Open Workshop at Makers Booth</b>, Limasan Ndalem Mangkubumen, Widya Mataram University</span><br /> <span>Sticthing on Plywood session II by Maken Living Indonesia</span><br /> <b>———————–</b></p>
<p><b>09.30am – 10.30am:</b><br /> <b>[proto:type] E Session V</b><br /> <b>“Y2014 to Y2015 Summit of Critical Making 2015″</b><br /> Introduction to [proto:type] Y2014 and toward Y2015 by Stephen Kovats </p>
<p><b>09.30am – 10.30am:<br /> </b><b>[proto:type] F Session VI<br /> “Open Knowledge as a Platform of Sharing”<br /> </b>Moderator: Wan Zaleha Radzi<br /> Panelist:<br /> - Elisa Anggraeni<br /> - Yuka Narendra<br /> - Saad Chinoy<br /> - Edin Khoo<br /> - Tia Pamungkas<br /> - Inasanti Susanto</p>
<p><b>12.00pm – 01.00pm:</b><br /> <b>Lunch</b></p>
<p><b>———————–<br /> </b><span>side event:<br /> 12.00pm – 02.30:</span><br /><b><b>(FABLAB_OD24h):</b><br /> Closing FABLAB_OD24h Workshop at HONFablab (Fablab Yogyakarta)<br /> Introduction to Raspberry Pi by Tommy Surya<br /> </b>————————</p>
<p><b>01.30pm – 03.00pm</b><br /> <b>[proto:type] F Session VII<br /> ”Maker Culture: Of Fields and Labs”<br /> </b>Moderator: Venzha Christ<br /> Panelist:<br /> - Jeong ok Jeon<br /> - Amrin Hakim<br /> - Marton Kocsev<br /> - Gustaff Hariman Iskandar<br /> - Diyanto Imam</p>
<p><b>———————–</b></p>
<p><span>side event:<br /> 02.00pm – 03.30pm:</span><br /> <span><b>Open Workshop at Makers Booth</b>, Limasan Ndalem Mangkubumen, Widya Mataram University</span><br /> <span>DIY BioPlastic Workshop by Irene Agrivina</span></p>
<p><b>———————–</b></p>
<p><b>03.30pm:</b><br /> <b>[proto:type] G Session VIII<br /> </b>Closing speech by Venzha Christ</p>
<p>–move to Makers Camp–</p>
<p><b>MAKERS CAMP DAY#01</b><br /> Venue: Tembi Village Yogyakarta<br /> <b>02.00pm – 03.30pm:</b><br /> <b>Workshop#01</b><br /> Hackidemia Workshop by Stefania Druga</p>
<p><b>04.00pm – 05.00pm:<br /> Break</b><br /> <b>Traditional Music Performance</b><br /> by Tembi Village</p>
<p><b>06.00pm – 08.00pm:</b><br /> <b>Workshop#02</b><br /> DIY Organic Subs Workshop by Blah!</p>
<p><b>08.00pm – 10.00pm:</b><br /> <b>Workshop#03</b><br /> How to Make Ceramics Workshop by Tembi Village</p>
<p><b>———————–<br /> </b><span>side event:<br /> <b>03.00pm – 01.00am +1</b></span><br /> <span><b>cellsDISCO!</b><br /> DJ Session<br /> <i><b>DJ Line-up:</b></i><br /> DJ Hamam (JKT). DJ Ones (YK). DJ Navis (YK). DJ Latex (YK). DJ Noor (YK). DJ TIM (YK). DJ Metzdub (YK). DJ Lintang Egha (YK). DJ Felix (DE). DJ Adit (YK). DJ NDA (YK).<br /> </span><b>———————–</b></p>
<p><b>09.00pm – 10.00pm:</b><br /> <b>Makers Dinner</b><br /> Dinner is served in traditional way of Tembi Village</p>
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<p><b>MAKERS CAMP DAY#02</b><br /> Venue: Tembi Village Yogyakarta</p>
<p><b>07.00am – 09.00am:</b><br /> <b>Breakfast</b><br /> Breakfast is served in traditional way of Tembi</p>
<p><b>11.00am – 01.00pm:</b><br /> <b>Workshops:</b><br /> Workshop#03: DIY Batik by Tembi Village</p>
<p>Workshop#04: Open Source Hardware by Yudianto Asmoro</p>
<p>Workshop#05: Body Hacking by Iwan Wijono</p>
<p><i>*workshops are happening on the same time in different spot/space. Participants registration are required</i></p>
<p><b>01.00pm – 02.00pm:</b><br /> <b>Lunch Break</b></p>
<p><b>02.00pm – 04.00pm:</b><br /> <b>Workshops:</b><br /> Workshop#06: OS Wash Workshop by Jean Nöel Montagne</p>
<p>Workshop#07: DIY Greenhouse with Automatic Light by Irene Agrivina</p>
<p>Workshop#08: DIY Holographic Microscope by Irene Agrivina</p>
<p><i>*workshops are happening on the same time in different spot/space. Participants registration are required</i></p>
<p><b>07.00pm – 08.00pm:</b><br /> <b>Makers Dinner</b><br /> Dinner is served in traditional way of Tembi Village</p>
<p><b>———————–<br /> </b><span>side event:<br /> <b>02.00pm – 02.00am +1</b></span><br /> <span><b>cellSONIC!</b><br /> Bands Performance & DJ Session<br /> <i><b>Bands Line-up:</b></i><br /> - - Seek Six Sick – Belkastrelka – Cangkang Serigala – Skandal – Talking Coasty – Summer in Vienna – Luise Najib - Chika and The Pistol Air – Distorsi Liar – AHAA – Dinosaur Youth – Fashion Statement (YK)<br /> <i><b>DJ Line-up:</b></i><br /> DJ Hamam (JKT). DJ Ones (YK). DJ Navis (YK). DJ Latex (YK). DJ Noor (YK). DJ TIM (YK). DJ Metzdub (YK). DJ Lintang Egha (YK). DJ Felix (DE). DJ Adit (YK). DJ NDA (YK).<br /> </span><b>———————–</b></p>
<p>02.00am – the next morning:<br /> please, have a rest!</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/yogyakarta-meeting-on-open-culture-and-critical-making'>https://cis-india.org/news/yogyakarta-meeting-on-open-culture-and-critical-making</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessAccess to Knowledge2014-07-03T08:57:07ZNews ItemWTO-MC11 in Buenos Aires: What is at Stake for India and its People
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/wto-mc11-in-buenos-aires-what-is-at-stake-for-india-and-its-people
<b>On November 21, 2017, Anubha Sinha attended a civil society workshop on "WTO-MC11 in Buenos Aires: What is at Stake for India and its People". The workshop was co-organised by the Third World Network, Focus on the Global South, South-Solidarity Initiative of Action Aid, and the Forum on FTAs at the Seminar Hall 1 & 2, New Block, India International Centre, 40 Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As the Eleventh Ministerial Conference (MC11) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Argentina draws near, it is important to create awareness among broad constituencies in India about the issues on the table, especially the challenges facing developing countries. We need to jointly learn about the linkages between these global policy decisions and their grass root level impacts. The issues at stake during the forthcoming Ministerial; agriculture domestic subsidies, permanent solution on public food stockholding (PDS), special safeguard mechanism, fisheries subsidies, and the new issues around e-commerce and investment facilitation are all of great interest to India and its people and will impact a range of constituencies including farmers, trade unions, fisherfolk, internet and IP activists, patient groups, women and indienous communities and so on. So it is imperative that all of us are involved and part of a wider consultation, so as to know the negotiating process, what is on the table and most importantly to amplify peoples' voices both at the national and global levels.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Programme Agenda <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/files/programme-wto-mc11">here</a></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/wto-mc11-in-buenos-aires-what-is-at-stake-for-india-and-its-people'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/wto-mc11-in-buenos-aires-what-is-at-stake-for-india-and-its-people</a>
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No publisherAdminAccess to Knowledge2017-11-24T14:09:00ZNews ItemWriting skills improve with Wikipedia editing
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-december-3-2016-writing-skills-improve-with-wikipedia-editing
<b>Pavan Santhosh said that contributing to Wikipedia and working in Wikimedia community improves our leadership qualities and writing skills. In an awareness session conducted about "You can edit Wikipedia" in JKC college, Guntur, Santhosh explained how to create and improve articles about Wikipedia in this program. Principal I.Nageswara Rao presided over this meeting.</b>
<p><img src="https://cis-india.org/home-images/WikipediaawarenesssessioninJKCcollegeGuntur.jpg/@@images/5b616c90-c0d5-482c-988a-650d3fbd4083.jpeg" alt="Writing Skills with Wikipedia" class="image-inline" title="Writing Skills with Wikipedia" /></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-december-3-2016-writing-skills-improve-with-wikipedia-editing'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-december-3-2016-writing-skills-improve-with-wikipedia-editing</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWikimediaCIS-A2KWikipediaAccess to Knowledge2016-12-15T02:21:23ZNews ItemWorld IT Forum 2009
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/witfor-2009
<b>At the World IT Forum, Pranesh Prakash made a brief presentation on intellectual property rights, how ill-suited they are to be considered "property" rights, and how they have been foisted upon the developing world.</b>
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<p>At the
recently-concluded World IT Forum, 2009, the Commission on Social, Ethical, and Legal Issues organized three sessions. One
on 'Digital Intellectual Property Rights and Digitisation of Divides',
a second on 'Employment of ICTs Toward Effective Realization of
Millenium Development Goals' and a third on 'E-Governance and
Biometrics: Evaluating Opportunities and Threats'. The individual
sessions had K.M. Gopakumar of Third World Network ("Digital Technology
and Access to Knowledge: Policy Space for the Third World), Naveen
Thayyil ("Digital IPRs: Implications for Divides in New and Emerging
Biotechnologies"), Anita Gurumurthy of IT for Change,("Reimagining the
Digital Opportunity" ), Chat Garcia Ramilo of APC Women's Networking
Support Programme ("Gender Dimensions of ICT Development"), Ajit
Narayanan of AUT ("What Does Your Passport Say About You?"), Sohel
Iqbal of Korea University ("Obligation and SWOT of E-Governance in
Developing Countries") and Dinh Ngoc Vuong of the Institute of
Lexicography and Encyclopedia of Vietnam ("Legal Aspects and Role of
E-Governance in Vietnamese Reforms") speaking. As part of the first
session, I spoke on how IPR as a property regime leads to
mischaracterisation, and how IPR is a foreign system for developing
countries. </p>
<p>Amongst the many reasons that IPR should not be regarded in the same
light as property (even though that conceptual framework is <a class="external-link" href="http://volokh.com/2003_09_07_volokh_archive.html#106337694122641243">supported
by the likes of Eugene Volokh</a>) are to be found in David Levine's
rejoinder to Volokh that <a class="external-link" href="http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/coffee.htm">IPR
are analogous to property</a>, along with the <a class="external-link" href="http://lsolum.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_lsolum_archive.html#106338119420336709">two</a>
<a class="external-link" href="http://lsolum.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_lsolum_archive.html#106349932466050651">rejoinders</a>
by Larry Solum. Volokh's main point is that not only control of use
and excludability, but incentives to create are also part of property
law, for both tangible property and intangible "property". This is
questioned not only by David Levine and Larry Solum, but by Mark
Lemley, Wendy Gordon, and a host of other scholars. Three simple
points to note: (1) IP deals with internalisation of positive
externalities, which is not something we normally associate with
property law -- thus, IP actually <a class="external-link" href="http://volokh.com/posts/1173221206.shtml">does not give me
control over my 'property', but over yours</a>;
(2) IP deals with a truly non-exhaustable, non-rivalrous good -- ideas
-- which, as shown in the articles linked above, are not suited to
being governed by property regimes; (3) IP goes much beyond what
property law does with tangible property, since it not only governs the
sale of IP and exclusion of others from my IP, but also governs the
subsequent usage of IP.</p>
<p>Another relevant consideration is the way that IP law has been
spread through the globe through means like colonisation and modern-day
unbalanced trade treaties.&nbsp; India got its first copyright law
in 1914 and <a class="external-link" href="http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/Remarks.jsp?cnty_id=969C">signed
the Berne Convention in 1928</a>,
much before its independence. The TRIPS Agreement of 1995 mandated
things like product patents for pharma products for all countries, even
though an industrialised Western country like Spain only started
recognizing them in 1992, and even though Italy, which was then the
fifth largest manufacturer of pharmaceutical products, was forced to
introduce product patents by a petition of foreign pharma companies in
1978. The benefits of product patents for pharma products have not been
empirically proved, but the <a class="external-link" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7632318.stm">harms
caused by patents to production of newer medicines</a>
have been well documented. Given these, it is imperative that
developing countries push back against IP expansionism that is knocking
on their doors through instruments like Free Trade Agreements.</p>
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<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/witfor-2009'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/witfor-2009</a>
</p>
No publisherpraneshIntellectual Property RightsAccess to Knowledge2011-08-04T04:44:33ZBlog EntryWorld Day Against Software Patents
https://cis-india.org/news/world-day-against-software-patents
<b>A global coalition of more than 80 software companies, associations and developers has declared the 24th of September to be the "World Day Against Software Patents". The Hindu, a national daily dedicated one page of its Bangalore edition to software patents and software freedom. Deepa Kurup contributed written two articles titled "Will patenting take the byte out of IT here?" and "How would it be if you read only one type of book?" which reflects some of the concerns of the Free/Libre/Open Source Software community. </b>
<h2>Will patenting take the byte out of IT here? [<a class="external-link" href="http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2008092461910300.htm&date=2008/09/24/&prd=th&">link</a>]</h2>
<p>Deepa Kurup</p>
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<p>There has been little debate on patent laws and the software industry. Today is World Day Against Software Patents.</p>
<p>IT software, services and outsourcing industry has been rooting for software patenting<br />Delhi Patent Office receives around 50 applications for software patents every month</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><br />BANGALORE: Picture this. Indian mathematicians came up with the concept of the “zero” — often touted as India’s greatest contribution to civilisation — and got a patent for it. By now they would have raked in inestimable amounts in royalty. Seems preposterous? Members of the Free Software community say that patenting every other algorithm would be somewhat in the same league.<br /><br />While there has been substantial discussion on how patents will affect the pharmaceutical sector, there has been little debate about its implications on the software industry. To the layman, software patenting sounds like an abstract issue applicable to an even more abstract domain. However, with a growing software industry which is trying to spread its indigenous roots, the issue becomes an important one.<br /><br />Traditionally, software comes under the Copyright Law (just like any literary work) and anyone who writes a program owns it. After Indian Parliament in 2005 scrapped an ordinance which declared “software in combination with hardware” patentable, the controversial and ambiguous clause — “software per se” — has now resurfaced in a recently formulated Patent Manual.<br /><br />And how will the common man be affected by this proposed change in the patent manual? For example, when Global Patent Holdings patented usage of images on websites, a bunch of small and big companies had to cough up to $50 million each. And where does this cost reflect? “The consumer will find that products will get a lot more expensive. Take a DVD player which has about 2,000 patents (many of them software-related). Every time a local company makes a DVD player, they have to pay royalties and the costs will naturally be reflected on the sale price,” says Sunil Abraham of Centre for Internet and Society, a research and advocacy organisation.<br />Backdoor entry<br /><br />The Free Software community feels that patents will make a backdoor entry, courtesy this manual and that ongoing public consultation (by the Patent Office) does not take their voices into account. Mr. Abraham says: “We feel that the powerful software lobbies around are pushing for this clause. If allowed, it will affect the basis of innovation, and will in turn affect the industry.” While the Bangalore consultation was “postponed indefinitely,” the Patent Office in its Delhi meeting said this issue called for an “exclusive meeting with the software industry.”<br /><br />The powerful IT software, services and outsourcing industry has been rooting for software patenting. Under the guile of the seemingly innocuous clause in the Indian Patent Bill 2005, software companies and the MNC lobby is trying to carve out a slice for the specific “software embedded with hardware” industry saying that it will increase the value of indigenous home-grown software, pump up software exports and thereby rake in greater revenue.<br /><br />However, the other side of the story is worth telling. Software, per se, is simply a set of instructions to carry out a certain process. Software experts put forth the argument that big corporations — with money, muscle and hired talent — will seek to impose patents along the software value chain, starting from source code to the recent demand for “embedded software.”<br /><br />Sources in the Delhi Patent Office say that they receive around 50 applications for software patents every month. In the U.S. 25,000 patents are granted every year. In a software-driven world, blurring the lines between software and software “per se” could be risky. “Patenting is an expensive and tedious process. The challenge for every programmer would be to verify each time, to see if any two lines of his code would infringe upon a patent. In the U.S., a single verification can cost as much as $5,000. The fundamental issue is that if I arrive at anything independently, should I not use it only because someone had got it patented before me?” asks a senior official at Red Hat, an open source service provider.<br /><br />A paper written by members of the Alternative Law Forum (ALF), the case against software patenting is presented as a very basic one. “Software evolves much faster than other industries, even with its own hardware industry. Microprocessors double in speed every two years. So, a patent that lasts up to 17 years (minimum period -15) is alarming. In this field, the idea underlying may remain the same but a product has to be replaced on an average of every two years,” it states. The paper also points out that in software “research costs are little because ideas are as abundant as air.”<br /><br />Prashant Iyengar of ALF feels that patent laws will effectively curtail innovation, like it has done in the U.S. “Software, unlike other industries in India, is end-driven but is also on a “body shopping” model. Given that, a strong start-up company will be either be shut down or bought over if patent laws come in,” he explains.</p>
<h3>How would it be if you read only one type of book? [<a class="external-link" href="http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2008092550590300.htm&date=2008/09/25/&prd=th&">link</a>]</h3>
<p>Deepa Kurup</p>
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<p>Little or no attention is paid to what is being taught in schools and colleges</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">BANGALORE: A computer literacy programme in a public sector organisation teaches the following modules: MS Office, MS Power Point, MS Excelsheet and Internet Explorer. A glance through the “computer syllabus” in most schools, and the list is similar. All items on this checklist have one thing in common: proprietary software. So, if every computer user is being taught exclusively on proprietary platforms, would they ever be comfortable switching to the easier, cheaper and readily available alternatives?<br /><br />Advocates of Free Software — software which can be used, studied and distributed without restriction — say that this is a ploy by proprietors to turn learners into potential customers. They allege that educational systems and the State are in cahoots with these large corporations which insist that children and learning adults be taught to only follow their system.<br /><br />In a recent meeting with a State Government official about the use of Free Software on e-governance platforms, the official complained that none of his officials knew how to use it or repair it if things went wrong.<br /><br />“This takes you to the root of the problem,” says Sunil Abraham of Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. “Students are taught to use only proprietary software. The Government is subsidising training in proprietary technology and little or no attention is paid to what is being taught in schools and colleges,” he explains.<br /><br />The “back-office” tag that our IT industry has learnt to live with is also a product of this malaise, experts point out. “When students learn only proprietary software, they will qualify only as computer operators and never learn about using the nuts and bolts of the profession. This is one of the reasons why there are no innovative products that come out of this country,” says Mr. Abraham.<br />Simple analogy<br /><br />A simple analogy would be that of a child taking up reading as a habit. If a child reads a lot of books, they say, they learn to write and express better. Academics feel that in the absence of any familiarity with Free Software, where the source is easily available, engineering students and computer graduates never get to read any code and are thus hardly familiar with the languages.<br /><br />FOSS supporters have written to the Ministry of Human Resource Development and several universities to point this out. Anivar Aravind, a member of Free Software Users Group, says that the progress so far has been staggered. Recently, CDAC and Anna Univeristy (KB Chandrashekar Research Centre) came up with a Free Software syllabus and offers trained to teachers in engineering colleges.<br />Cost factor<br /><br />A study by International Open Source Network (an UNDP initiative) study on FOSS and education states that using open source software could reduce the costs involved in ICT education significantly. In a country like ours, this fact that Open Source Software usually involves low or no cost would be perceived as an important step towards reducing the digital divide. With no licensing fee, they can be made available on CD or downloaded.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/world-day-against-software-patents'>https://cis-india.org/news/world-day-against-software-patents</a>
</p>
No publisherpraneshSoftware PatentsAccess to Knowledge2013-01-16T07:15:16ZNews ItemWorld Book Day (Coverage in Vijayavani)
https://cis-india.org/news/vijayavani-april-23-2014-world-book-day
<b>Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event as a speaker. A scanned version of the report is below:</b>
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<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/vijayavani-april-23-2014-world-book-day'>https://cis-india.org/news/vijayavani-april-23-2014-world-book-day</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2014-05-05T09:40:16ZNews ItemWorld Book Day
https://cis-india.org/news/world-book-day
<b>Dr. U.B.Pavanaja was one of the speakers on the program arranged on account of World Book Day by Karnataka Publishers’ Association at the Indian Institute of World Culture, Basavanagudi.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">He spoke about the importance of giving info about Kannada books in Kannada Wikipedia, about digitization of books, ebooks and audio books.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Click to read the media coverage in <a class="external-link" href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/international-book-day/article5932673.ece">the Hindu</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/world-book-day'>https://cis-india.org/news/world-book-day</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2014-05-05T09:33:11ZNews ItemWorkshop: Social Justice in an Internet-mediated World
https://cis-india.org/news/social-justice-in-an-internet-mediated-world
<b>IT for Change and the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities invite you to a workshop on social justice in an internet-mediated world at the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities on January 31, 2014. T. Vishnu Vardhan, Program Director, Access to Knowledge from the Centre for Internet and Society will deliver a lecture on Where are the Alternatives ? Is distributed power possible?</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">IT for Change and Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, University of Manipal are pleased to announce a workshop on Social Justice in an Internet-mediated World that will examine themes such as: Role of Technology in Oppression and Emancipation through History, Digital Technologies and the Discourse of Social Justice in India, Globalisation and Democracy in an Internet-mediated world, and the Place of Media, Culture and Community in Network Society. The workshop will be conducted by subject-experts from the two organising institutions and other scholar-activists, researchers and practitioners.<br /> <br />The fundamental objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers, students, NGO representatives to explore conceptual frameworks in an emerging field through dialogue and deliberation.<br /> <br />The workshop fee is Rs. 3000 and participants are expected to make their own travel arrangements. Scholarships to cover travel and course fee are applicable to India based applicants only. However, accommodation would be provided free of cost to all participants, at the University campus during the period of the workshop.<br /> <br />To apply, please send your CV with contacts and a 500-word statement that elaborates the reasons you want to attend this workshop, to itfc-mcph@itforchange.net. Selected candidates will be intimated by email.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a class="external-link" href="http://www.itforchange.net/node/1116">More info at IT for Change website</a></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/social-justice-in-an-internet-mediated-world'>https://cis-india.org/news/social-justice-in-an-internet-mediated-world</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to Knowledge2014-02-02T16:24:29ZNews ItemWorkshop on Innovation, Economic Development and IP in India and China
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/workshop-on-innovation-economic-development-and-ip-in-india-and-china
<b>Anubha Sinha and Rohini Lakshané presented at the SMU-JINDAL-RENMIN Workshop on “Innovation, Economic Development, and IP in India and China,” co-organised by the Singapore Management University, O.P. Jindal Global University, and Renmin University of China, in Delhi during September 27-28, 2016. Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog, delivered the inaugural address at the workshop.</b>
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<p>Workshop Brochure: <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/invitation-workshop-innovation-economic-development-and-ip-in-india-and-china" class="internal-link">Download</a> (PDF)</p>
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<h4>Anubha Sinha - "Investigating Limits to Innovation and Peer Production in India's Mobile Apps Economy"</h4>
<p>Slides: <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/investigating-limits-to-innovation-and-peer-production-in-indias-mobile-apps-economy" class="internal-link">Download</a> (PDF)</p>
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<h4>Rohini Lakshané - "Exploring Open Hardware in Mass Produced Mobile Phones"</h4>
<p>Slides: <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/exploring-open-hardware-in-mass-produced-mobile-phones" class="internal-link">Download</a> (PDF)</p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="420" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/N8TpwEtUAb4hRH" width="510"> </iframe></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/workshop-on-innovation-economic-development-and-ip-in-india-and-china'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/workshop-on-innovation-economic-development-and-ip-in-india-and-china</a>
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No publisherAnubha Sinha and Rohini LakshanéPeer ProductionAccess to KnowledgeIntellectual Property RightsOpen HardwareOpen InnovationMobile AppsPatents2016-10-09T04:41:38ZNews ItemWorkshop on e-Content Development
https://cis-india.org/news/workshop-on-e-content-development
<b>T. Vishnu Vardhan, A2K Programme Director at CIS will be teaching at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad from September 4 to 6, 2013.</b>
<p>Vishnu Vardhan will give guest lecture for the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Open Source to Open Knowledge</li>
<li>Building Knowledge Bases and Platforms via Mass Collaboration on the Internet</li>
<li>e-Content in Indian languages – History, Challenges and Opportunities</li>
<li>Wikipedia Users to Wikipedia Authors – Exploring Wikipedia as an OER Tool</li>
<li>e-Content, e-Student, e-Faculty – Reimagining classroom in the digital Age</li>
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<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/e-content-development" class="internal-link">Click to download the programme brochure</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/workshop-on-e-content-development'>https://cis-india.org/news/workshop-on-e-content-development</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaOpennessWikipediaAccess to KnowledgeWikimedia2013-09-04T05:56:16ZNews ItemWorkshop on Digital Annotation and Content Generation with research scholars in Pune
https://cis-india.org/openness/workshop-on-digital-annotation-and-content-generation-with-research-scholars-in-pune
<b>The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education (CILHE) is conducting a two-day workshop on Digital Annotation and Content Generation with research scholars at KSP Women’s Studies Centre, Pune on October 30-31, 2015.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Day 1:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As part of this workshop, we will be working
with <a class="external-link" href="http://www.annotationstudio.org/">Annotation Studio</a><span class="_Tgc">, </span>a set of collaborative web-based and open source
annotation tools that allows users to share texts and annotate them
simultaneously. For the educator, it enables tracing points of
engagement with the text, identifying which paragraphs generate most
interest and why, and learn how readers understand the argument of the
text based on marking of tags. For the student, digital annotation is an
interesting exercise in close analytical reading, responding to
feedback, and building an argument.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Day 2:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The second day will be spent in understanding about generating
encyclopedic content on Wikipedia. We will engage the participants in annotating key
Women’s Studies texts and create well-referenced entries on various Indian language Wikipedia projects.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/workshop-on-digital-annotation-and-content-generation-with-research-scholars-in-pune'>https://cis-india.org/openness/workshop-on-digital-annotation-and-content-generation-with-research-scholars-in-pune</a>
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