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Creative Commons comes to India

Creative Commons comes to India

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jul 17, 2013 06:49 AM

Creative Commons team visited four Indian cities to spread the word about CC free licenses and CC affiliate program. Wikimedia India chapter was approached to join hands with Creative Commons for research and community building.

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Fifty-fourth Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore

Fifty-fourth Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore

by Noopur Raval — last modified Mar 06, 2013 09:09 AM

The 54th Wikimedia meet-up in Bangalore was held at the Indian Institute of Management on February 25, 2013. The event was planned and organized by Radhakrishna Arvapally, SIG (Special Interest Group) Chair, Bangalore (a part of the Wikimedia India Chapter) with support from Solutions IQ, Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS.

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FOSS, Wikimedia and Mozilla Under One Roof at GNUnify 2013, Pune

FOSS, Wikimedia and Mozilla Under One Roof at GNUnify 2013, Pune

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jul 17, 2013 06:55 AM

GNUnify 2013 organized in the campus in Pune from February 15 to 17, 2013. The event was organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group (PLUG) and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research (SICSR). Subhashish Panigrahi reports the outcomes in this blog post.

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Digital Literacy Workshop at Department of Arts, Delhi University

by Nitika Tandon — last modified Mar 05, 2013 01:03 AM

A digital literacy workshop was organised at the Department of Arts, Delhi University for students pursuing their masters in Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies on February 5, 2013. Nitika Tandon shares the developments.

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Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, Dhenkanal

Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, Dhenkanal

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Aug 23, 2013 02:01 PM

The Odia Wikipedia community collaborated with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal and hosted a pilot Odia Wikipedia Education Program. The program began in November 2012 and got over by January 2013. Sixteen student wikipedians signed up and took part in editing more than a dozen articles on Odia Wikipedia.

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Access to Knowledge Report — September to December 2012

by Noopur Raval — last modified Jan 31, 2013 10:14 AM

This post provides an overview of the activities done by the Access to Knowledge team under the grant provided by the Wikimedia Foundation from September 2012 to December 2012.

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Pervasive Technologies: Access to Knowledge in the Market Place — A Presentation by Sunil Abraham

by Sunil Abraham — last modified Feb 13, 2013 07:05 AM

The 2012 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest was organized in Rio de Janeiro from December 15 to 17, 2012. The Centre for Internet & Society partnered FGV, Washington College of Law, the American Embassy, African Information Research and Training and International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in this event. Sunil Abraham made a presentation on Pervasive Technologies on the opening day, December 15, 2012.

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Bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in Public Domain

Bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in Public Domain

by Nitika Tandon — last modified Jul 26, 2013 11:35 AM

On December 14, 2012, a meeting was scheduled with the Vice Chancellor Dr. Satish R Shetye to discuss the possibility of bringing Konkani Encyclopedia in public domain. Nitika Tandon shares the development in this blog post.

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Wikipedia in St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa

Wikipedia in St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa

by Nitika Tandon — last modified Jul 26, 2013 11:33 AM

A three hour Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet & Society, Delhi, in the morning of December 14, 2012 at St. Xavier's College in Mapusa, Goa. Over 30 participants attended the session.

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Promoting GLAM in Goa

Promoting GLAM in Goa

by Nitika Tandon — last modified Jul 26, 2013 11:27 AM

We organised an introductory Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums (GLAM) session at Goa State Central Library on December 13, 2012. It was well attended by about 45 interested people coming from over 10 different GLAM institutes in Goa.

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