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Train The Trainer Programme for Wikipedians
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Nov 18, 2013 08:24 AMTwenty Wikimedians from 10 cities speaking 8 languages attended the 4-day Train-The-Trainer (TTT) programme conducted last month by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K) at Bangalore. The programme aimed to improve and enhance Wikipedians' skills for outreach and community-building activities.
Train the Trainer Program
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Nov 18, 2013 07:52 AMWikipedians, about 20 of them, from 10 different cities, speaking 8 different languages, joined together for the first ever four days "Train the Trainer Program" organised by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team in Bangalore from October 3 to 6, 2013.
Konkani Vishwakosh Under CC-BY-SA
— by Nitika Tandon — last modified Nov 30, 2013 10:47 AMUpon CIS-A2K's explicit request, Goa University has approved the re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under the Creative Commons License (CC-BY-SA 3.0) to make it freely available to public and giving them the right to share, use and even build upon the work that has already been done. This is a huge step to help preserve Konkani language and culture in digital era and will also feed into building of Konkani Wikipedia.
History of Creative Commons in India
— by Priyank Dwivedi — last modified Nov 13, 2013 04:20 AMThis blog-post discusses the potential for Creative Commons in India, in light of imminent Creative Commons Re-launch, by highlighting the history of works licensed under Creative Commons in the country.
Ambiguity in the App Store: Understanding India’s emerging IT sector in light of IP
— by Samantha Cassar — last modified Apr 15, 2014 08:24 AMMobile applications hold immense potential for India but are not fully understood by even their own developers in the context of India’s intellectual property (IP) regime. This is the first in a series of blog posts introducing CIS's new access to knowledge research initiative that seeks to understand how stakeholders encounter India’s IP law and what this means for the mobile app ecosystem, and in turn, the Indian mobile user. This research also aims to address problematic policy areas for innovation and protection for developers, as well as to comment on India’s regime with respect to the emerging mobile app sector.
Feedback on the Framework on OSS Adoption in E-Governance Systems
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Oct 28, 2013 10:35 AMCIS gave its feedback to the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) on the Framework on Open Source Software Adoption in E-Governance Systems on October 26, 2013.
The Fight for Digital Sovereignty
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Oct 25, 2013 07:29 AMIt is time to incorporate free software principles to address the issue of privacy. Thanks to the revelations of Edward Snowden, a former contractor to the United States (US) National Security Agency (NSA) who leaked secrets about the agency’s surveillance programmes, a 24-year-old movement aimed at protecting the rights of software users and developers has got some fresh attention from policymakers.
Mobile Phone Patents: Prior Art Survey
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Oct 24, 2013 10:33 AMIn this blog post, Nehaa Chaudhari discusses a study on a portion of the patent landscape around mobile phone patents, commissioned by CIS earlier this year. This prior art search was undertaken by Rohan George of Samvad Partners, who worked as a Consultant with CIS.
Re-release of Konkani Vishwakosh under CC-BY-SA 3.0
— by Nitika Tandon — last modified Nov 04, 2013 12:14 PMGoa University re-released Konkani Vishwakosh under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. To celebrate and further the movement of open knowledge and open access Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) organised an event on September 26, 2013 at 10 a.m., at the Goa University Conference Hall.
Making Wikipedia Better
— by Pooja Saxena and Nirbheek Chauhan — last modified Oct 25, 2013 07:30 AMIt 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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