Blogs
Darshana Mandrekar speaks on Konkani Wikipedia
— by Nitika Tandon — last modified Dec 31, 2013 10:38 AMThe Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) in collaboration with the Goa University is working to build Konkani Wikipedia. As part of this program it organised the Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Program recently.
Priyadarshini Tadkodkar on Konkani language
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Jan 31, 2014 06:20 AMCIS-A2K team interviewed Priyadarshini Tadkodkar about Konkani language. She speaks how editing/contributing to Konkani Wikipedia would help students.
Telugu Wikipedia completes 10 years
— by Rahmanuddin Shaikh — last modified Dec 31, 2013 04:40 AMTelugu Wikipedia completed 10 years on December 10, 2013. Several training sessions, aka Wiki Academies, were planned by the Telugu Wikipedia community to mark the occasion.
WIPO Broadcast Treaty- SCCR 26 : Proposals Introduced
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Dec 30, 2013 03:48 PMIndia and the United States introduced proposals for discussion at the ongoing session of the SCCR.
CIS Statement on Limitations and Exceptions for Education, Teaching and Research Institutions and Persons with Other Disabilities
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Dec 30, 2013 06:17 AMNehaa Chaudhari on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) made this statement at the WIPO-SCCR on December 20, 2013.
CIS Comments to the Ministry of Human Resource Development on the Proposed WIPO Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Dec 07, 2013 07:57 AMAs a follow up to a stakeholder meeting called by the MHRD on the WIPO Broadcast Treaty, CIS provided written comments on the Working Document for a Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations adopted by the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at its twenty-fourth session, Geneva, July 16 to 25, 2012.
How Can We Make Open Education Truly Open?
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 30, 2013 08:45 AMI have spent the last month being unpopular. I have been in conversation with many ‘Open Everything’ activists and practitioners. At each instance, we got stuck because I insisted that we begin by defining what ‘Open’ means in the easy abuse that it is subject to.
CIS-A2K Narrative Report (September 2012 – June 2013)
— by Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Nov 30, 2013 11:18 AMThis narrative report captures the work done by the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team in the first ten months of the grant. The report also throws some light on the CIS-A2K program strategy in the next one year.
CIS Signs MoU with Christ University, Bangalore
— by T. Vishnu Vardhan — last modified Nov 20, 2013 06:46 AMThe Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Christ University in Bangalore. As part of this MoU Christ University and CIS-A2K will work together to introduce "Wikipedia in the Indian Undergraduate Language Classroom" at Christ University.
ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಟ್ಟ ಸಸಿಗೆ ಈಗ ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷ
— by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Nov 20, 2013 09:55 AMDr. U.B. Pavanaja wrote an article highlighting 10 years of Kannada Wikipedia. Kannada Wikipedia started in the year 2003 and now it has completed 10 years. The article highlights the current status of the Kannada Wikipedia vis-a-vis number of articles, number of editors, active editors, and page views per month.
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