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Ten Telugu Books Re-released Under CC-BY-SA 3.0 License
— by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Jul 08, 2014 05:29 AMFor the first time in the history of Indian books, 10 Telugu books by a single author were released under Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) on June 22, 2014 at 10 a.m. at Golden Threshold, Abids, Hyderabad.
Statement on the Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives at WIPO SCCR 28
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Jul 21, 2014 05:56 PMNehaa Chaudhari, attending the 28th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“SCCR”) at Geneva from 30 June, 2014 to 04 July, 2014, made this statement on the Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives on behalf of CIS on Day 4, 03 July, 2014.
This Twitter Account Puts a Face to the Unsung Volunteer Editors Behind Wikipedia
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jul 03, 2014 06:17 AMThe life of a Wikipedia editor is an interesting one. Globally, about 100,000 editors edit the collaborative online encyclopedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.5 million in the English Wikipedia.
Statement on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations at WIPO SCCR 28
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Jul 14, 2014 05:40 AMNehaa Chaudhari, attending the 28th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“SCCR”) at Geneva from 30 June, 2014 to 04 July, 2014, made this statement on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations on behalf of CIS on Day 3, 02 July, 2014.
Odia Language gets a new Unicode Font Converter
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jul 02, 2014 09:59 AMRecently, I worked on designing a font encoding converter with a fellow Wikimedian Manoj Sahukar. We worked by taking the code of a converter that was made three years back and made it work for two fonts AkrutiOriSarala99 and AkrutiOriSarala that are used by the media industry for printing and publishing.
India's Ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty Celebrated; Accessible Books Consortium Launched
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Jul 01, 2014 11:09 AMOn Day 1 of the 28th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“SCCR”), the WIPO organized an event to mark India’s ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled, 2013 (“Marrakesh Treaty”), and to launch the Accessible Books Consortium (“ABC”).
Comments on the Open Licensing Policy Guidelines of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Jun 30, 2014 11:26 AMThe Centre for Internet and Society submitted its comments on the Open Licensing Policy Guidelines to the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, on May 28, 2014. The comments were prepared by Sunil Abraham and Nehaa Chaudhari.
Mapping Institutions of Intellectual Property: Part B — India's National Program on Intellectual Property Management
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Jun 26, 2014 03:27 PMAs a second part in the series on Mapping Institutions of Intellectual Property this blog post deals with the documents introduced at the Stakeholders’ Consultation for India’s National Program on Intellectual Property.
Twitter weekly Curation WeAreWikipedia brings one Wikipedian Every Week
— by Diptiman Panigrahi — last modified Jun 16, 2014 06:16 AMWeAreWikipedia is an initiative to bring in voices of Wikipedia contributors (known as Wikipedians). One Wikipedian curates the Twitter based handle for a week and tells interesting stories from his/her communities that are unheard to the rest of the globe. Started as a personal project by our program officer Subhashish Panigrahi it has brought 18 Wikipedians across the globe including 6 Indic language communities.
Community led Konkani Wikipedia Outreach
— by Nitika Tandon — last modified Jun 10, 2014 08:44 AMGoa University students organised the first ever community led Konkani Wikipedia outreach on May 14, 2014. Fifteen first year M.A. students from Konkani Department participated in the six hour long workshop.
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