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Konkani Vishwakosh Digitization Project

by Nitika Tandon — last modified Oct 01, 2013 12:23 PM

The Centre for Internet and Society in collaboration with the University of Goa invite you to a two-month project on digitization of Konkani Vishwakosh. Please send in your applications by October 5, 2013.

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Open Access: An Opportunity for Scientists around the Globe

by Subbiah Arunachalam — last modified Sep 26, 2013 06:00 AM

Researchers face two problems related to information access: making their own research more visible to researchers elsewhere and making worldwide research readily available to them. Open access (OA) can solve both of them.

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CIS Signs MoU with Goa University

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 25, 2013 10:57 AM

The Access to Knowledge (A2K) team from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has signed a MOU with the Goa University.

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Wikipedia reaches Classrooms in Hyderabad

Wikipedia reaches Classrooms in Hyderabad

by Syed Muzammiluddin — last modified Sep 20, 2013 07:20 AM

The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad organised a one-day workshop on editing Wikipedia in Indian languages. It was attended by participants who formed a small but proactive group of students who eagerly tried to register the first edits on four different Indian language wikipedias.

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WikipediansSpeak: Piotr Konieczny

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Sep 18, 2013 12:22 PM

WikipediansSpeak is a video interview show hosted by Subhashish Panigrahi at the Centre of Internet and Society. It brings you series of posts about Wikipedians across the globe. Wikipedians are those voluntary contributors who write Wikipedia articles, correct mistakes made by other wikipedians and share knowledge for free to the world.

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Wikimania 2013: Wikipedians represent Indian Languages in Hong Kong

Wikimania 2013: Wikipedians represent Indian Languages in Hong Kong

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Sep 13, 2013 06:03 AM

The 7th, 8th and 9th of August 2013 saw over 600 Wikipedians across the world participating Wikimania at Hong Kong. The three day annual international conference for users and contributors of Wikipedia brought many debates about open educational research, open source technologies, gender gap, documenting the history of mankind in a free and open platform like Wikipedia and its sister sites in collaboration with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums and all of these in 286 world languages. More and more volunteers are joining this movement and it is expanding the media of accessing and disseminating knowledge.

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Recap on Konkani Wikipedia Workshop

Recap on Konkani Wikipedia Workshop

by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Sep 12, 2013 10:22 AM

Konkani as a language has seen geographical, political and religious conflicts. Being the official language of Goa and spoken widely in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra it is still trying to strengthen its base. Recently CIS-A2K in collaboration with Goa University organized a four-day workshop for MA, Konkani language students.

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Selection of Programme Officer — Pilot Projects, CIS-A2K

by Nitika Tandon — last modified Oct 30, 2013 06:07 AM

The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) opened applications for the post of Programme Officer, Pilot Projects for its Access to Knowledge (A2K) Programme on 17th April 2013. The vacancy and call for applications was shared on all Indian language mailing lists, city mailing lists as well as Village Pumps.

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Copyrights and Copywrongs Why the Government Should Embrace the Public Domain

by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Sep 06, 2013 04:56 AM
September 06, 2013

Each of you reading this article is a criminal and should be jailed for up to three years. Yes, you. "Why?," you may ask.

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