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Konkani Vishwakosh relaunch tomorrow
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 25, 2013 05:53 AMThe Goa University in collaboration with Centre for Internet and Societies Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K) will relaunch its four-volume 3,632-page Konkani Vishwakosh (encyclopaedia) under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. to support the movement of open knowledge and open access on Thursday at 10 a.m. at a function at the conference hall of its administrative building at Taleigao plateau.
Re-releasing Konkani Vishwakosh & Building Konkani Wikipedia
Sep 26, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM — Conference Hall, Goa University, Taleigao, — by Prasad KrishnaThe Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) in partnership with the University of Goa invites you to this event on Thursday, September 26, 2013, 10.00 a.m. The one-hour event will be followed by a press conference.
Building Knowledge Bases and Platforms via Mass Collaboration on the Internet
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 14, 2013 01:44 AMT.Vishnu Vardhan delivered a lecture at the School of Cultural Texts and Records in the Digital Humanities class to students of Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University on September 23, 2013.
Wikipedia reaches Classrooms in Hyderabad
— by Syed Muzammiluddin — last modified Sep 20, 2013 07:20 AMThe 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.
e - DIRAP Google+ Hangout: Open Government
— by Christine Apikul — last modified Sep 18, 2013 10:43 AMThe e-DIRAP Hangout on Open Government was held on Thursday, 25 July 2013. It brought together nine professionals from Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines to discuss the wide spectrum of issues surrounding open government.
WikipediansSpeak: Piotr Konieczny
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Sep 18, 2013 12:22 PMWikipediansSpeak 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.
Indian Languages Mela 2013 in Mumbai
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 17, 2013 05:04 AMCentre for Indian Languages in Higher Education is organizing The Indian Languages Mela in Mumbai. Tejaswini Niranjana will participate in the event.
'Help Konkani Wikipedia come out of incubation'
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 17, 2013 10:10 AMThe functioning of the free online encyclopedia, ‘Wikipedia,’ is like a true democracy. It is for the people and by the people, said The Centre for Internet and Society Programme Officer (Indian Languages) Pavanaja U B.
Recap on Konkani Wikipedia Workshop
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Sep 12, 2013 10:22 AMKonkani 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.
Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at SDM
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 12, 2013 06:16 AMThe Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, SDM College, Ujire is holding a wiki workshop on September 15, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja from CIS-A2K team is participating in this workshop.
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