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Fifth Annual IP Teaching Workshop

by Prasad Krishna last modified Apr 02, 2016 06:53 AM

The V Annual IP Teaching Workshop- 2016 was organised by the Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition (CIIPC), at National Law University Delhi in association with National Academy of Law Teaching, NLU-D, on March 31 and April 1, 2016 in Delhi. Nehaa Chaudhari was a speaker.

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Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives

by Prasad Krishna last modified Mar 31, 2016 04:28 PM

A two day workshop on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives was organized by MHRD Chair on Intellectual Property Rights, Centre for Intellectual Property Rights and Advocacy, and National Law School of India University in Bangalore on March 4 and 5, 2016. Nehaa Chaudhari spoke in 2 sessions: Exception & Limitations to Copyrighted Works and WIPO Initiatives.

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BHASHA - Indian Languages Digital Festival

by Prasad Krishna last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:14 PM

Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk at the Bhasha- India Languages Digital Festival a conference organized by news media YourStory, at New Delhi on March 11, 2016. In the panel "The challenges of making regional language content available on the Web and on mobiles" Panigrahi spoke about some of the challenges in growing the Indian-language Wikipedia projects and the communities.

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8th IBA International Conference

by Prasad Krishna last modified Apr 04, 2016 03:32 PM

The 8th IBA International Conference was organized by Indus Business Academy in Bengaluru from March 24 to 26, 2016. The theme of the conference was Taking India to Greater Heights. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a talk on Democratizing of Knowledge Access- Case of Regional Language Wikipedia.

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International Mother Language Day

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 27, 2016 06:17 AM

On 21 February 2016, Eenadu published a special story on the occasion of International Mother language day in Hyderabad edition. The special story covered Wikipedians effort to develop Encyclopedic content online and also about multi-lingual (English-Telugu) Wikipedians meetup organized in December 2015.

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The Intellects holds 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language

The Intellects holds 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 27, 2016 05:35 AM

The Intellects, a Delhi-based progressive forum of intellectuals, held the 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language at the India International Centre in New Delhi today.

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ಪ್ರಶಾಂತವನ

by Prasad Krishna last modified Mar 20, 2016 04:32 AM

ಮಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಸಂತ ಅಲೋಷಿಯಸ್ ಕಾಲೇಜಿನ ಎರಿಕ್ ಮೆಥಾಯಿಸ್ ಸಭಾಂಗಣದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ೧೩ನೇ ವರ್ಷಾಚರಣೆಯ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಒಂದು ವರದಿ

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2016 Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property ("WIPIP") Colloquium

by Prasad Krishna last modified Mar 20, 2016 05:10 AM

Prof. Jorge Contreras presented a paper co-authored by Rohini Lakshané on the patent landscape conducted for the Pervasive Technologies project at WPIP. The event was held in Washington D.C. on February 19 and 20, 2016. It was organized by School of Law, University of Washington.

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Now trending: Regional Indian language social media networks

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 15, 2016 01:44 AM

How many languages did you speak today? Chances are there was a lot of English at work and at home, but at least a sprinkling of Hindi (or Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil or Kannada) when you were chatting, gossiping or joking with friends and family.

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Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions (CRIs)

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 05, 2016 02:01 PM

Anubha Sinha attended this meeting organized by the Office of The Controller General, Patents, Designs & Trade Marks in Mumbai on January 12, 2016

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Youth is responsible for protecting Telugu

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 05, 2016 08:49 PM

G. Umamaheshwara Rao, head of linguist research at Hyderabad Central university observed that there is every possibility for Telugu to be extinct soon. Its responsibility of youth to protect and preserve the language. And it is Wikipedia which would help in doing so.

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Wikipedia Digital Centre now at Andhra Loyola College

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 05, 2016 08:49 PM

Access to Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K) of the Centre for Internet and Society has opened up a Wikipedia Digital Centre at Andhra Loyola College in the city on Wednesday. The centre, which has trained a couple of students in contributing to Wikipedia earlier, has now set up a lab called ‘Wikipedia Digital Centre’ to continue the activity.

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Books at a Click

by Prasad Krishna last modified Jun 18, 2016 05:52 PM

The OdiaWikimedia community and Bhubaneswar-based Srujanika have come together to make rare science books available online for readers, students & science educators.

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Wikipedia initiative - Celebrating legacy of Bangalore Blue grapes online

by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 29, 2016 03:44 PM

Black is beautiful, and it can go places if it is well researched. When HL Omshivaprakash wrote a Wikipedia article about Karnataka's bidriware, the metal handicraft where gleaming black bowls and hookahs are dotted with delicate silver strips, he didn't expect it to be picked up by the French and Swedes.

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Kannada Wikipedia not on top of the charts

by Prasad Krishna last modified Jun 18, 2016 04:23 PM

It occupies the 10th place among Indian languages.

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GI-tagged products to get Wiki pages

by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 27, 2016 04:33 PM

Ever realised that the famous, red hot Naga Mirchi (a special variety of chilli from Nagaland) doesn’t have a Wikipedia page?

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3rd Expert Committee Meeting on reference of secretary, MHRD on representation of Internet and Mobile Association of India

by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 05, 2016 02:04 PM

The 3rd Expert Committee meeting was held on January 11, 2016 in Committee Room No.654, 'A' Wing, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting in New Delhi. Nehaa Chaudhari and Anubha Sinha attended the meeting.

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