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Reading Devanagari script based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada Script
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U.B.Pavanaja
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Jul 13, 2015
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 06:14 PM
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Konkani Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
This is a small hack to read websites with Devanagari script (used for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Maithili and a few more languages) based sites like Konkani Wikipedia in Kannada script.
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Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Mangaluru (Coverage in Prajavani)
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U.B.Pavanaja
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published
Jul 05, 2015
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last modified
Jun 18, 2016 06:14 PM
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Kannada Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
As part of its ongoing partnership with St. Aloysius College, Mangaluru, CIS-A2K along with the Wikipedia community in Karnataka organized a workshop on Kannada Wikipedia. Prajavani reported this in their edition published on July 5, 2015.
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Upload More Kannada Articles on Wikipedia
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U.B.Pavanaja
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Jul 05, 2015
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Sep 13, 2015 06:09 AM
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Openness,
Kannada Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Uploading information in Wikipedia helps to develop language, said Indian Languages Programme Manager U B Pavanaja here on Saturday. The article was published in Indian Express (Mangaluru edition) on July 5, 2015.
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Kannada Wikipedia Workshop in Mangaluru (Coverage in Udayavani)
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U.B.Pavanaja
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Jul 05, 2015
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Sep 13, 2015 06:17 AM
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Kannada Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
As part of its ongoing partnership with St Aloysius College Mangaluru, CIS-A2K co-organized a workshop with the Kannada wikipedia community on Kannada Wikipedia. Udayavani covered this in their edition on July 5.
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Not many contributors for Kannada-centric Wiki page
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U.B.Pavanaja
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Jul 05, 2015
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Sep 13, 2015 05:42 AM
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Kannada Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Wikipedia, which has over 60,000 contributing editors in India, has only 33 Kannadigas contributing to the Kannada section, said Pavanaja U B, programme manager, The Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru.
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Statement by the Centre for Internet and Society on the Broadcast Treaty at SCCR 30
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Nehaa Chaudhari
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Jul 02, 2015
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Access to Knowledge,
WIPO
The 30th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization's ("WIPO") Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights ("SCCR") is underway in Geneva from 29 June, 2015 to 03 July, 2015. While CIS was unable to attend this meeting, we have the following statement to make on negotiations on the Proposed Treaty for Broadcasting Organizations.
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Odia Wikipedia meets Google Developer Group
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Sailesh Patnaik
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published
Jun 29, 2015
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last modified
Jul 16, 2015 01:17 PM
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Openness,
Odia Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
This is a guest post by Wikimedian Sailesh Patnaik who has been a ardent contributor in Odia-language Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects and has led outreach and partnership building initiatives to grow the Wikimedia projects in Odia and other Indian languages. In this post Sailesh shares his personal experience from his interaction at the Google Extended I/O organised by Google Developer Group in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. All the views are author’s personal views.
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Comments on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations: Technical Background Paper Prepared by the WIPO Secretariat
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Nehaa Chaudhari and Amulya Purushothama
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Jun 28, 2015
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last modified
Sep 03, 2015 01:47 AM
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Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge,
WIPO
Technical Background Paper prepared by the WIPO Secretariat in relation to the Broadcast Treaty (“Technical Background Paper) provides information on new and emerging technologies and on legal developments in the broadcasting sector. This Technical Background Paper will be discussed at the upcoming 30th session of the SCCR in Geneva on 29th June- 3rd July 2015. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India had called for comments on the same. This is a submission made by Nehaa Chaudhari and Amulya Purushothama on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society in this regard.
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National IPR Policy Series : Follow-up RTI to DIPP on the IPR Think Tank
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by
Nehaa Chaudhari
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Jun 25, 2015
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
This RTI was prepared by Varun Baliga and Nehaa Chaudhari as a follow-up, based on the responses of the DIPP to our earlier RTI requests (available at http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/national-ipr-policy-series-rti-requests-by-cis-to-dipp-dipp-responses)
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Train the Trainer: Running effective outreach activities in India
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Tanveer Hasan
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Jun 24, 2015
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Jul 30, 2015 03:20 PM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
It is heartening to report that many Wikimedia projects in Indian languages have sustained, and even experienced an upward trend in, editor engagement. However, in terms of content creation, the majority of these projects are still facing grave challenges that put their very existence at risk.
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