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Telugu Wikipedia struggles to stay afloat: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 28, 2014 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Openness
For a language that is spoken by 10 crore people, content is sparse.
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Region as Frame: Politics, Presence, Practice: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 18, 2014 — last modified Sep 09, 2014 09:26 AM — filed under: Video
IAMCR's 2014 conference will take place in Hyderabad, India from 15-19 July. The conference theme is Region as Frame: Politics, Presence, Practice. The event is organized by International Association for Media and Communication Research.
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India’s dedicated Cryptology centre gets Rs. 115 crore funding: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 29, 2014 — filed under: Cryptography, Internet Governance
Work on India's first dedicated cryptology centre – plans for which were first announced in June 2012 – will likely accelerate as the project has gained initial funding of Rs. 115 crore from the federal government, stepping up the nation's efforts to stay on top of an area critical to its military and financial interests.
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Innovation Ecosystem: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 29, 2014
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The joys of being a Wikipedian: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 30, 2014 — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
Radha Krishna, an engineer, had always wanted to share information online so that people who wanted to learn more could just log in and benefit by reading his articles. Eight years ago he started his own website for this very purpose. But he found it hard to maintain the site. He then chanced upon Wikipedia, the largest open-source encyclopedia, which was then just becoming popular in the country.
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Best Practices Meet: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 08, 2014 — last modified Aug 06, 2014 06:25 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
The Best Practices Meet 2014 is being organized by DSCI at Hotel Leela Palace on July 9, 2014. Sunil Abraham will participate as a panelist at the event.
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Kannada Wikipedia Presentation for Kannada Science Writers: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 31, 2014 — last modified Aug 06, 2014 10:15 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness, Kannada Wikipedia
The following is the media coverage for the Kannada Wikipedia presentation at the Central University at Gulbarga on July 30,2014, in Gulbarga edition of Prajavani Kannada daily, dated July 31.
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Sunil Abraham: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 12, 2014 10:03 AM
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Nirmita Narasimhan: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 12, 2014 10:12 AM
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Usha Nandini: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 12, 2014 10:13 AM
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