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What is Wikimedia Education SAARC Conference?: by Sailesh Patnaik — published Jun 05, 2019 — last modified Jun 22, 2019 09:37 AM — filed under: Wikimedia Education, Access to Knowledge, Wikipedia Education Program, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Christ University
The Wikimedia Education SAARC conference is on 20th June 2019. A conference for Wikimedians, Wikimedia education leaders, educators and researchers engaged with Open Education and free knowledge movement.
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Christ University logo: by Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Jun 05, 2019 09:01 AM
Wikimedia Education SAARC logo: by Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Jun 05, 2019 08:42 AM
Wikimedia Education SAARC logo
Wikimedia Education SAARC logo: by Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Jun 05, 2019 08:32 AM
Logo of Wikimedia Education SAARC
The city of Bhubaneswar is going Open: by Sailesh Patnaik — published Mar 07, 2019 — filed under: Open Access, Access to Knowledge
Bhubaneswar supporting the concept of Openness movement has joined as one of the ambassadors of the movement in the world by giving citizens the right to access the content online produced by the government and make use of the work.
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Wide image Mukteswar temple: by Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Mar 07, 2019 11:26 AM
Train the Trainer program 2018: by Sailesh Patnaik — published Mar 06, 2019 — last modified Mar 06, 2019 08:13 AM — filed under: Train-the-trainer (TTT), Access to Knowledge
Trainer the Trainer program is an annual three days residential program organised by the Access to Knowledge Program of Centre for Internet and Society. The program identifies the community leaders and brings Wikimedians from and around the SAARC countries to train them and provide mentorship in their work.
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Group photo of TTT 2018: by Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Mar 06, 2019 06:33 AM
TTT 2018 participants during the Day-2 field trip. Image by BHARATHESHA ALASANDEMAJALU under CC-BY-SA 3.0
Group photo of TTT 2018: by Sailesh Patnaik — last modified Mar 06, 2019 06:33 AM
TTT 2018 participants during the Day-2 field trip. Image by BHARATHESHA ALASANDEMAJALU under CC-BY-SA 3.0
CIS Signs MoU with Odia Virtual Academy: by Sailesh Patnaik — published Dec 19, 2018 — last modified Dec 20, 2018 12:24 AM — filed under: Open Educational Resources, CIS-A2K, Open License, Access to Knowledge, Open Data, Wikipedia, Open Content, Odia Wikipedia, Open Access, Wikimedia
On October 26, 2018, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Odia Virtual Academy (OVA) to work on drafting an open content policy for the state, to promote use of Wikimedia projects by various user types and to ensure sustainability of Wikimedia projects, and to facilitate development of relevant free and open source software projects. This partnership between OVA and CIS will be carried out from December 2018 to November 2019, and we are sharing an overview of the activities and their objectives in this post.
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