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Beyond Property Rights: Thinking About Moral Definitions of Openness

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 07, 2013 09:43 AM

It is hard for Westerners to realize just how much we take for granted about intellectual property, and in particular, how much the property owner’s perspective--be it a corporation, government or creative artist--is embedded in our view of the world as the natural order of things.

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A Telegu Wiki Meetup @ CIS

by SJ Veera (Telugu Wikipedian) — last modified Sep 01, 2013 11:30 AM

Telugu Wikipedians had their monthly meetup at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore on Saturday, July 13, 2013, 2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.

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Stress on posting articles on Kannada Wikipedia

Stress on posting articles on Kannada Wikipedia

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 02, 2013 06:27 AM

A workshop to be held on CPDPS premises on August 6.

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Wikipedia boom in vernacular languages

Wikipedia boom in vernacular languages

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 12, 2013 04:29 AM

The number of Wikipedia entries in vernacular languages has grown substantially in the last eight months

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Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languages

Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languages

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 01, 2013 05:28 AM

A vibrant vernacular Wikipedia seems to be taking root in India. In the last eight months, the number of Wikipedia entries has grown substantially in 20 Indian languages, says a study by the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).

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Open Access Dialogues - Report and Policy Recommendations

by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Dec 22, 2015 06:52 AM

The Open Access Dialogues were a series of global electronic debates facilitated by Eve Gray and Kelsey Wiens, in partnership with The African Commons Project (South Africa) and the Centre for Internet and Society (India), during November 2012 to March 2013. It was supported by the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, and was hosted at WSIS Knowledge Communities Discussion Forum.

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Wikipedia Gains Massive Traffic Thanks To Vernacular Languages

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 19, 2013 04:18 AM

The blog post was published in Before It's News on August 1, 2013. T. Vishnu Vardhan is quoted.

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A Kannada Wikipedia Workshop at Sagara

by U.B.Pavanaja — last modified Mar 25, 2014 08:51 AM

On Sunday, July 28, 2013, a day-long Kannada Wikipedia workshop was conducted at Sagara, Shimoga Dist, Karnataka by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team. In this post, I share with you the happenings from the workshop.

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July 2013 Bulletin

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 21, 2013 09:30 AM

Our newsletter for the month of July 2013 can be accessed below.

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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — June & July 2013

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 04, 2013 10:52 AM

A2K newsletter for the months of June and July, 2013.

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