Programme
Openness
Open data, open access, open standards and free software. 883 items.
29 Nov 2012
Event
Autonomy, Access, Infrastructure and Future — A Discussion with C S Lakshmi on the SPARROW ArchiveWhat does it take to build an archive? Why build archives in the first place? What kind of challenges do archives created through independent initiatives face in terms of infrastructure, autonomy, access and futures? On Thursday, November …
28 Nov 2012
News
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
News
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.
22 Nov 2012
Blog post
Wikipedia Women's Workshop in MumbaiThe Wiki Women Workshop was organized at the Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Wadala in Mumbai on November 4, 2012. It was attended by over 60 women participants who were taught how to contribute to Wikipedia articles and briefed about …
19 Nov 2012
Blog post
Typing in Indic Languages from Mobiles made Easy!A new app is up for typing in Indic languages from mobile phones. This is is available online at: http://bitly.com/indictyping and supports on iOS. Android version is to be released soon.
19 Nov 2012
News
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
Blog post
Report on Wikipedia Hackathon held in HyderabadBITS Hyderabad had a tech fest from October 25 to 27, 2012, and wanted to conduct a technical wiki hackathon. We decided to do it on October 26 — all night.
19 Nov 2012
Blog post
Open Government Platform: An Open Source Solution to Democratizing Access to Information and Energizing Civic EngagementIf government could release these datasets in open format for people to use & reuse, a whole lot of new innovative apps could be built around these datasets to provide better, customized services to citizens.
19 Nov 2012
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Odia Wikipedia Gets a New Typing Solution!Subhashish Panigrahi worked with Yuvi Panda to create a new typing scheme for Odia Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. This blog post gives a summary of this development and its outcome.
19 Nov 2012
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Follow up to Wikipedia Introductory Session at Bharati Vidyapeeth — More Interested and More Involved ParticipantsA Wikipedia introductory session was organised at Bharati Vidyapeeth Engineering College in Delhi early this year and a follow up session was organised by CIS on November 19, 2012. About 12 to 15 participants attended the follow up session. …
19 Nov 2012
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An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB College, BhubaneswarThe Centre for Internet and Society along with Odia Wikipedians in Bhubaneswar organized an Odia Wikipedia workshop on November 18, 2012. It was held in KMBB College of Engineering. Odia Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia in Odia language …
19 Nov 2012
News
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.
19 Nov 2012
News
‘Some Indian laws could be challenging’Wikipedia’s founder member Erik Möller says their principle is not to decide the map of India, but to explain that there is a controversy.
12 Nov 2012
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Wikipedia: State of Tech — A Talk by Erik MoellerThe Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore is hosting a talk by Erik Moeller, Vice President of Engineering and Product Development at the Wikimedia Foundation at its office in Bangalore on November 12, 2012, from 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m., …
11 Nov 2012
Blog post
A Wikipedia Mini-hackathon in DelhiWikipedian Yuvaraj Pandian visited the CIS office in Delhi and helped the Access to Knowledge team conduct a super-ad-hoc mini-hackathon with two other volunteers, Sheel from Delhi and Harsh from Ahmedabad. The aim was to get them a …
10 Nov 2012
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An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at Academy of Media LearningOdia Wikipedians were invited to Academy of Media Learning (AML), Bhubaneswar for a guest lecture and a workshop on contributing to Odia Wikipedia. The event was organised by the Centre for Internet & Society on November 10, 2012. This is a …
9 Nov 2012
News
Steady Steps.....FOSS and the MDG'sPranesh Prakash was a panelist at this IGF workshop held on November 9, 2012. It was organised by International Center For Free and Open Source Software and Free Software and OpenSource Foundation For Africa.
31 Oct 2012
Blog post
Gujarati Wikipedia Article Competition – 10 schools, 200 students, 20 articles on Gujarati WikipediaThis was a competition to raise Wikipedia awareness and help students discover the joy of writing articles in their native language and an attempt to connect producers having knowledge in Gujarati to a wide audience of more than four lakh …
31 Oct 2012
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Gujarat Wikipedia Education Program: RajkotThis report analyses a series of meetings and workshops held in Rajkot, a city in Gujarat, India during the month of October 2012.
31 Oct 2012
Blog post
First Pune Odia Wikipedia Workshop Organized!The first Pune Odia Wikipedia workshop was organized in Pune on October 27, 2012. Subhashish Panigrahi recollects his experience about the events through this report.
29 Oct 2012
Blog post
Malayalam Wikipedia Education Program: August to October UpdatesThree months back, I wrote a blog post (http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/06/wikipedia-education-a-model-from-malayalam-wikipedia/) about the inauguration of the Wikipedia education program in Malayalam Wikipedia. This program is the first …
29 Oct 2012
Blog post
Bridging Gender Gap in Pune: WikiWomenDay 2012 Celebrated with Success!A2K team members Subhashish Panigrahi and Noopur Raval participated in the "WikiWomenDay" organized by Wikipedia Club Pune at PAI International Learning Solutions, Azam Campus on October 28, 2012. Subhashish unfolds the happenings of this …
26 Oct 2012
Event
Wikipedia Hackathon at BITS HyderabadCIS - A2K team and BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus are organizing a hackathon for their tech fest — ATMOS on October 26 - 27, 2012, from 6.00 p.m. on October 26 to 6.00 a.m. on October 27.
24 Oct 2012
Event
Profit by Sharing: Anatomy of an Open Source Hardware BusinessIan Lesnet, founder of DangerousPrototypes will give a lecture on open hardware and open source at the Centre for Internet & Society office in Bengaluru on October 24, 2012, 3.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.
22 Oct 2012
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Launch of Assamese Wikipedia Education Program at Guwahati UniversityThe Assamese Wikipedia community has shown a rapid growth in the past six months from 20 active editors in January 2012 to 29 active editors in June 2012. The absolute numbers might seem low but in terms of percentages its an overwhelming …
19 Oct 2012
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Wikipedia workshop @ Inmantec College, GhaziabadThe Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet & Society was approached by Gaurav Prashar, Assistant Dean at Inmantec College, Ghaziabad to organize a Wikipedia workshop. Accordingly, a workshop was organized on October 17, 2012.
16 Oct 2012
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Bengaluru: A Hub for Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects!Kannada Wikipedia is one of those Indic language wikipedias which has seen many readers coming up every month. Subhashish Panigrahi summarizes the experiences of some of the very active Kannada wikipedians from the recent Kannada Wikipedia …
30 Sep 2012
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Wikipedia comes to Hyderabad!This post is a report on the series of Wikipedia meets organized in the city of Hyderabad on September 29-30, 2012. These workshops were a a part of the larger effort to help Wikipedia contributors in the same city to meet each other and …
30 Sep 2012
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Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop at AmritsarAfter Ludhiana and Patiala we came to Amritsar, which we all know is home to the Golden Temple and the spiritual centre of Sikh religion, to introduce Punjabi Wikipedia. The workshop was held at the Spring Dale Senior School, Amritsar on …
30 Sep 2012
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Access To Knowledge/Programme PlanPursuant to the announcement made on July 30, 2012 and as reflected in the FAQ accompanying the announcement, the India Program will become a project of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) an …