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GCIP 15 Day 2: Discussions on Health Technology, Innovation and Access
— by Spadika Jayaraj — last modified Dec 17, 2015 04:08 PMThe Global Congress is a confluence of academics, policy advocates and activists working in the sphere of IP and Public Interest.
GCIP2015: Notes from the Inaugural Session
— by Spadika Jayaraj — last modified Dec 17, 2015 03:54 PMThe 2015 Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest kicked off with its inaugural plenary session, on 14th December, 2015. With over 400 registered participants, ranging from established academics to activists to students gathered in the auditorium in National Law University, Delhi, Phet Sayo, a Senior Fellow at IDRC and a panelist at the session rightly observed that if a bomb were to go off at this venue, "there goes IP activism".
Guerrilla GLAMː An alternate way of doing GLAM in indie-way
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Dec 16, 2015 03:09 AMI have been working on a concept called the Guerrilla GLAM. Here is a very quick summary about the concept that was published in the GLAM-wiki newsletter for November.
Abuse of Dominant Position in Indian Competition Law: A Brief Guide
— by Sarthak Sood — last modified Dec 09, 2015 01:20 PMEvery car owner would give a knowing nod when spoken to about the struggle of finding reasonably priced spare parts for their cars. While original parts can only be found at limited dealerships (which would invariably be miles away from home), once found, a small block of plastic would be worth a proverbial fortune.
Sau Dhuni Teen Project: December Edit-a-thon
— by Abhinav Garule — last modified Dec 08, 2015 10:30 AMAs part of the "Sau Dhuni Teen Project" a multilingual Wikipedia Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised at the Women's Studies Centre, University of Pune.
TTT 2015
— by Tanveer Hasan — last modified Dec 15, 2015 07:36 AMThe Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) conducted a four day training workshop for Wikimedians all over India in order to facilitate conducting and organising outreach activities for promotion of Wikimedia activities within Indian language communities. Wikimedians from 21 language communities had participated in this training workshop including Wikipedians working for Nepali and Maithili Wikipedia.
Guru-G Learning Labs and CIS A2K Institutional Partnership
— by Tanveer Hasan — last modified Dec 15, 2015 07:52 AMIncorporated in 2013, Guru-G is the world’s first gamified platform for teaching and teacher training.
Touch Point Report: Department of Tourism Studies, Christ University and St. Aloysius College, Managalore
— by Tanveer Hasan — last modified Dec 15, 2015 07:37 AMCIS-A2K conducts Wikipedia in Education programme at St. Aloysius colege, Mangalore. This partnership is unique as it provides to us a pool of editors for three Wikimedia projects, i.e: Kannada, Tulu and Konkani.
Analysis of Institutional Partnerships: University of Mysore and Guru G Learning Labs
— by Tanveer Hasan — last modified Dec 15, 2015 07:39 AMUniversity of Mysore considered to be one of the most prestigious institutions in the country has been famous for its innovative pedagogic techniques and opening up for students various avenues of knowledge acquisition.
Community Prioritisation of Content Donation: Kannada Wikisource
— by Tanveer Hasan — last modified Dec 15, 2015 07:42 AMCIS-A2K has initiated a community consultation in order to prioritise and streamline the work on Wikisource projects across FLA. Due to the commitment of volunteers from the respective FLA and the institutional partnerships that A2K has developed we have been able to bring a large corpus of content under free licence into our Wikisource projects. CIS-A2K promotes both content donation and content acquisition strategies in order to bring in free licence content.
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