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Openness
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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.
31 May 2013
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CIS Signs MOU with TISS, MumbaiThe Access to Knowledge (A2K) team from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has signed a MOU with the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), Mumbai.
30 May 2013
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Wikipedia Introductory Session organized for Data and India portal consultantsOn May 13, 2013, the Access to Knowledge team led by Subhashish Panigrahi conducted a Wikipedia Introductory Session at the National Informatics Centre in New Delhi for the consultants working for Data and India portal. This session was …
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.
28 May 2013
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Use made of Open Access Journals by Indian Researchers to Publish their FindingsMost of the papers published in the more than 360 Indian open access journals are by Indian researchers. But how many papers do they publish in high impact international open access journals? We have looked at India’s contribution to all …
28 May 2013
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Comments on the Draft ICAR Open Access PolicyThe following comments were submitted to the Indian Council for Agricultural Research on May 23, 2013.
27 May 2013
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Use of Open Access Journals by Indian ResearchersIndian researchers have published more than 43,400 papers in over 4,600 journals in 2009 as seen from Science Citation Index (SCI) – Expanded. Of these, over 6,900 (or one in six) papers are published in 445 open access (OA) journals. The …
20 May 2013
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Access to Knowledge Work Plan: Synopsis of Feedback by WikipediansThe Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team shared its annual work plan with the larger Wikipedia community. Over the last one month, Access to Knowledge team members were involved in receiving feedback from community …
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.
11 May 2013
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Odia Wikipedia: Needs AssessmentThis blog encompasses the status of Odia Wikipedia and assessment of the needs for growth of the community.
10 May 2013
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Google Policy Fellowship Programme: Call for ApplicationsThe Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is inviting applications for the Google Policy Fellowship programme. Google is providing a USD 7,500 stipend to the India Fellow, who will be selected by July 1, 2013.
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.
30 Apr 2013
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Analysis of Konkani Wikipedia: Facts & ChallengesNitika Tandon, in this blog post, provides an analysis of the Konkani Wikipedia. She reflects on the challenges faced by Konkani Wikipedia and identifies four possible solutions.
29 Apr 2013
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Indian WikiWomen celebrate Women’s History MonthMarch 2013 was a busy month for women Wikimedians in India, as we conducted various events, such as edit-a-thons and workshops to celebrate the presence of women in Wikimedia projects. The women Wikimedians, members of the Wikimedia India …
22 Apr 2013
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Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #2: Visualising Page Views and Project PagesIn this blog post, we bring you a visualisation of the page views statistics and the project specific pages that we created last month. The page views indicate the number of unique visits the Wikipedia project concerned has received in one …
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 …
4 Apr 2013
Blog post
Odia Wikipedia - Bhubaneswar Community Meetup (March 17, 2013)The Access to Knowledge team from the Centre for Internet and Society and the Odia Wikipedia community held a meetup in Bhubaneswar on March 17, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in this meet-up.
3 Apr 2013
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Odia Wikipedia - Cuttack Community Meetup (March 16, 2013)A meetup of Odia wikipedians was organised by the Access to Knowledge team of the Centre for Internet and Society and the Odia wikipedia community on March 16, 2013. Vishnu Vardhan and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the meetup.
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.
28 Mar 2013
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Wikipedia Indian Languages Workshop at IIT, BombayThis is a brief report on the Wikipedia Indian languages workshop held on March 9, 2013 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in partnership with Vaani, the Hindi bloggers' club at IIT, Bombay.
26 Mar 2013
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Iraqi Public Data Scenario Workshop: A SummaryA workshop on public data was conducted by Sunil Abraham and Sumandro Chattapadhyay for the officials of the Government of Iraq. It was organized by UNDP Iraq in Amman, Jordan from October 18 to 23, 2012. Sumandro Chattapadhyay shares with …
26 Mar 2013
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Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project #1: Visualising Basic ParametersSajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay bring you a visualisation of the growth of Indic Wikipedia in this first post on Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project. In doing so, the authors look into the different aspects of the past and present …