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5 Jun 2013
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Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Hasan (Coverage in Prajavani)Dr. U.B. Pavanaja conducted a workshop in Hasan on June 4, 2013. Prajavani carried a report on June 5, 2013.
30 May 2013
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CIS Celebrates 5 Years: A Report in UdayavaniUdayavani on May 25, 2013, published a report of the evening programme hosted as part of the Centre for Internet and Society's 5 year celebrations in its Bangalore edition.
29 May 2013
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Telugu Wikipedia Meet-up @ CISThe Centre for Internet and Society is hosting a meet-up on June 2, 2013 in its office in Bangalore, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. All are cordially invited.
29 May 2013
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CIS Celebrates 5 Years: A Report in PrajavaniPrajavani published a report on the Centre for Internet and Society's 5 year celebrations organised in Bangalore on the final day, May 23, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a talk on Kannada and IT.
20 May 2013
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A lifetime of five years on the internetCentre for Internet and Society observes its fifth anniversary on Sunday.
7 May 2013
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ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೧೦This was organised by the Wikipedia community on May 7, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in this.
6 May 2013
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CIS anniversaryThe Centre for Internet and Society will celebrate five years of its existence with an exhibition showcasing its works and accomplishments.
17 Apr 2013
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Kolkata Wiki Community MeetupRecently Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge Programme members T. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi met wikipedians in Kolkata. The event was co-organized by the Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet …
16 Apr 2013
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Wikipedia Workshop in Mangalore — Report in Kannada PrabhaA workshop was conducted for students of Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, Mangalore by Dr. U.B.Pavanaja on April 9, 2013. Kannada Prabha published a report about this on the following day, April 10, 2013.
16 Apr 2013
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KP Rao fetedKP Rao who had designed fonts for Indian languages including Kannada and devised the first phonetic keyboard driver for Indian languages, was felicitated at a programme organised at Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management on Tuesday, …
15 Apr 2013
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Report of Wiki Workshop in MangaloreA wikipedia workshop was organized in Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, Mangalore on April 9, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the workshop. Prajavani's Mangalore edition published a report about the felicitation to …
11 Apr 2013
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Need to develop vernacular languages stressedUniversity of Hyderabad (UoH) Vice-Chancellor Prof. Ramakrishna Rama Swamy said on Wednesday that everyone has a duty to contribute to the development of vernacular languages.
8 Apr 2013
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The Fifth Elephant 2013HasGeek is organizing the Fifth Elephant from July 11 to 13, 2013 at the NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore. Workshops on open source technologies and enterprise solutions will be held on July 11, 2013. You can participate in workshops …
1 Apr 2013
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2nd Odia Wikipedia Edit-a-thonThe event is being organized today, April 1, 2013 online by the Odia Wikipedia Community, from 10.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting this event.
25 Mar 2013
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Kannada Wikipedia Workshop, Mysore — Coverage in PrajavaniA Kannada Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet and Society in Mysore on March 24, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. Prajavani has published a report of the event on March 25, 2013.
13 Mar 2013
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Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013The Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013 was held on March 8, 2013 at Servelots Infotech, Jayanagar in Bangalore. It was organized by Wikimedia India. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. The news was covered by Kannada Prabha …
11 Mar 2013
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Wikipedia at AvenirA 4 hours Wikipedia event at Avenir, 2013 is being held at Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal on 11th March 2013. The Centre for Internet and Society is supporting this event.
2 Mar 2013
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Foreign Funding of NGOsShould FDI in India’s thinktank sector worry us? It is a debate long overdue.
28 Feb 2013
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Open DataCamp - 2013A two day unconference for people working with data from various sectors to come together and share their projects and idea is being organized by Open Data Camp on March 2 and 3, 2013 at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (inside Christ University …
11 Feb 2013
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Wiki Meet-up in Bangalore: Talk by Vishnu VardhanVishnu Vardhan, Director of Access to Knowledge team at CIS has been invited by the Bangalore SIG Chair. Vishnu will speak on the Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) project. The talk is scheduled for February 25, 2013 at 2.00 p.m. in …
10 Feb 2013
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Sanskrit Wikiquote — Now Available!The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is happy to celebrate the availability of Sanskrit wikiquote.
31 Jan 2013
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Odia Wikipedia's 9th Anniversary and Workshop on Application of Odia in MediaThe Centre for Internet & Society in collaboration with Odia-Wikipedia and Academy for Media Learning organized a workshop on January 29, 2013. This was covered in Sambad on January 30, 2013.
29 Jan 2013
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First Odia Wikipedia Education Program concludes at IIMC, DhenkanalThe first Odia Wikipedia Education program ended yesterday at Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Dhenkanal with distribution of certificates to the participants.
25 Jan 2013
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Bangalore hackers write code as tribute to Aaron SwartzA small crowd gathered here on Saturday afternoon in the basement of the Centre for Internet and Society to participate in the Aaron Swartz Memorial Hacknight, organised by HasGeek.
12 Dec 2012
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Leslie Chan Lectures in Tiruvananthapuram and MysoreProf. Leslie Chan from the University of Toronto, Canada is giving a series of lectures in Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore from December 17, 2012 to December 19, 2012.
5 Dec 2012
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A Report of Odia Wikipedia Workshop at IIT, KharagpurThe Samaja, Odia daily, Kolkata edition, on December 3, 2012, published an article about the Odia Wikipedia Workshop organized in IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal.
28 Nov 2012
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વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી માં પણ છેWe've recently been featured in the Gujarati magazine on technology: Cybersafar. The below article was written by Harsh Kothari.
23 Nov 2012
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OdishaDiary conferred prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to Odia Wikipedia teamOdishaDiary (Orissadiary.com) conferred the prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to the team of contributors of Odia Wikipedia.
19 Nov 2012
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Science Gallery Workshop @ SrishtiSrishti School of Art, Design and Technology is organizing a workshop to discuss the exciting potential of envisaging a Science Gallery in Bangalore as a part of the Global Science Gallery Network. Sunil Abraham is participating in this …
19 Nov 2012
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A Report of the Odia Wikipedia Workshop held in KMBB College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar(By Debapriya Priyadashi Chakra) Sambad, Odisha's most widely read and largest circulated daily, on November 19, 2012, published an article about the Odia Wikipedia workshop organized in KMBB College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.