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Live Webinar on Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
by Prasad Krishna published Aug 04, 2016 — filed under:
Anubha Sinha participated in this event organized by RCEP on July 27, 2016 in New Delhi.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Blog Entry Looking ahead to the future of the Kannada Wikipedia: Vasanth S.N.
by Subhashish Panigrahi published Feb 29, 2016 — filed under: , ,
Vasanth S.N. has edited the Kannada-langauge Wikipedia since 2006. As part of the WikipediansSpeak series, I caught up with Vasanth to learn about his contributions to the Kannada Wikipedia, which just celebrated its 13th anniversary. In the discussion Vasanth shares his long time involvement in the Wikimedia movement, and what drives him every day to edit Wikipedia and helping other fellow Wikimedians.
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Loyola Faculty Enlightened About Open Edn Resources
by Prasad Krishna published Jun 25, 2014 last modified Jul 02, 2014 04:50 AM — filed under: , , ,
“The tremendous changes in the digital technology have introduced the newage faculty to certain open and collaborative tools like Wiki, termed as open educational resources (OER),” Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) progarmme director T Vishnu Vardhan has said.
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M'lore: Wikipedia Workshop held for Konkani writers
by Prasad Krishna published Apr 14, 2014 — filed under: , , ,
A Wikipedia Workshop for Konkani writers writing in the Kannada script, was organised by All India Konkani Writers’ Organisation (AIKWO) in association with Wikipedia, on Apr 6, 2014, at Kalaangann, Mangalore.
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Blog Entry Maharashtra's Copyright Policy Makes Education Unaffordable
by Anubha Sinha published Jun 26, 2018 — filed under: ,
In an alarming development for Indian students, Balbharati – the Maharashtra state bureau of textbook production and curriculum research – has issued a copyright policy that forces all publishers, digital educational-content creators, and coaching classes to obtain expensive licenses for developing material directly or indirectly relating to Balbharati’s content.
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Maher Reports on WIPO Copyright Deliberations
by Prasad Krishna published Jul 03, 2014 — filed under: ,
SAA Past President and IPWG member William Maher represented the views of American archivists as a permanent observer at the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights meeting, December 16-20.
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Blog Entry Making Telugu Suitable for Internet
by Rahmanuddin Shaikh published Sep 06, 2016 — filed under: , ,
In brief, the article speaks of steps in making a language other than English suitable for Internet and computers, what input methods, fonts and content are available in Telugu as on date and what challenges are ahead in making language fully available on Internet and in computers.
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Blog Entry Making Wikipedia Better
by Pooja Saxena and Nirbheek Chauhan published Oct 14, 2013 last modified Oct 25, 2013 07:30 AM — filed under: , , ,
It wasn’t something that we set out to do when we started working on The Ballot, but one of the most satisfying unintentional side-effects of the project has been the chance to correct facts and figures, and remove inappropriate content from entries related to India and its politics on Wikipedia.
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Blog Entry Malayalam Wikipedia Education Program: August to October Updates
by Shiju Alex published Oct 29, 2012 last modified Nov 09, 2012 06:18 PM — filed under: , , , ,
Three 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 of its kind in an Indic language, and Malayalam community is doing the program in collaboration with the IT@School, a project of the Department of General Education, Government of Kerala, setup in 2001, to foster the IT education in schools.
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Mangalore: Konkani writers resolve to form all-India forum at JKS conference
by Prasad Krishna published Oct 01, 2013 last modified Oct 14, 2013 01:36 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Jagotik Konknni Songhotton (JKS) organized an All-India Konkani Writers’ Conference on Sunday, September 29 at Kalaangann.
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