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Letter to the Prime Minister on Indo-US Bilateral Relations on Intellectual Property
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Nehaa Chaudhari
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Oct 22, 2014
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Nov 03, 2014 02:58 PM
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Access to Knowledge
This is a letter that many organizations sent to the Prime Minister. The Centre for Internet and Society was one of the signatories.
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Live Webinar on Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Aug 04, 2016
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Access to Knowledge
Anubha Sinha participated in this event organized by RCEP on July 27, 2016 in New Delhi.
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Looking ahead to the future of the Kannada Wikipedia: Vasanth S.N.
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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Feb 29, 2016
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CIS-A2K,
Kannada Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
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
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Jun 25, 2014
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Jul 02, 2014 04:50 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
“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
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Prasad Krishna
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Apr 14, 2014
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filed under:
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Kannada Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
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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Maharashtra's Copyright Policy Makes Education Unaffordable
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Anubha Sinha
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Jun 26, 2018
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Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
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
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Prasad Krishna
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Jul 03, 2014
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Access to Knowledge,
WIPO
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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Making Telugu Suitable for Internet
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by
Rahmanuddin Shaikh
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Sep 06, 2016
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CIS-A2K,
Telugu Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
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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Making Wikipedia Better
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Pooja Saxena and Nirbheek Chauhan
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Oct 14, 2013
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Oct 25, 2013 07:30 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
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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Malayalam Wikipedia Education Program: August to October Updates
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by
Shiju Alex
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Oct 29, 2012
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last modified
Nov 09, 2012 06:18 PM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Workshop,
Openness
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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