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Department of Science and Technology & Department of Biotechnology adopt Open Access Policy

Posted by Anubha Sinha at Dec 29, 2014 10:10 AM |

This post discusses the newly adopted Open Access Policy of the Department of Science and Technology & the Department of Biotechnology.

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Several Publications Now Available under Creative Commons License

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Dec 28, 2014 03:05 AM |

The Centre for Internet and Society has got the following publications under Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA 4.0) license. These are from multiple authors.

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Creating Free Software Environment at Andhra Loyola College

Posted by Rahmanuddin Shaikh at Dec 13, 2014 05:00 AM |

Andhra Loyola college has signed an MoU with CIS-A2K and as part of it CIS-A2K team has provided a free and open software environment at Andhra Lyola College's Computer Center. Thirty machines have been installed with free software Operating system and some useful applications such as GIMP, Inkscape, firefox, libreoffice, etc.

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Beyond the Language Tussle

Posted by Tejaswini Niranjana at Dec 10, 2014 02:08 PM |

It might be more productive to see the ongoing Sanskrit versus German controversy as a welcome opportunity to discuss the real and persistent problems of our education system, not all of which have to do with which languages children get to learn.

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Odia Wikisource campus project at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Dec 03, 2014 08:45 PM |

The Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team organized a closing ceremony, on December 3, to conclude the three months campus project for Odia Wikisource at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Bhubaneswar.

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Nineteen Books Published by Ama Odisha Relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Nov 25, 2014 10:00 PM |

Odisha's most circulated newspaper Sambad has collaborated with CIS-A2K to relicense 19 books published by its sister concern "Ama Odisha".

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Teaching in the Age of Wikipedia

Posted by T. Vishnu Vardhan at Nov 22, 2014 01:00 PM |

This course is conceived by CIS-A2K. It is currently envisaged as an add-on Certificate Course jointly offered by CIS-A2K and the Nirmala Institute of Education (NIE)-a premier teacher training establishment in Goa, India.

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Odia Wikisource, its Potential

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Nov 17, 2014 09:00 PM |

I wrote an editorial in Odia newspaper the "Samaja" on November 17, 2014. I have written about Odia Wikisource, its potential and how people can get involved in it with a short note about the digitization done already. I have also highlighted the authors and copyright holders who kindly have donated their work under CC-by-SA license.

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Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra's 21 books relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Nov 17, 2014 08:00 PM |

Twenty one books of renowned Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra will now be available under the Creative Commons License.

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Privacy vs. Transparency: An Attempt at Resolving the Dichotomy

Posted by Sunil Abraham at Nov 14, 2014 01:50 AM |

The right to privacy has been articulated in international law and in some national laws. In a few countries where the constitution does not explicitly guarantee such a right, courts have read the right to privacy into other rights (e.g., the right to life, the right to equal treatment under law and also the right to freedom of speech and expression).

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55 Works of Iconic Indian writer released under Free Licence to benefit Wikisource

Posted by T. Vishnu Vardhan at Nov 13, 2014 03:50 PM |

Kannada is a language spoken by 40 million people in Karnataka – one of the four southern states of India.The Kannada Wikimedia community, in collaboration with CIS-A2K, are enthusiastic about having almost all of the works of Niranjana re-licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 on the occasion of Kannada Rajyotsava.

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ನಿರಂಜನರ ಕೃತಿಗಳು CC-BY-SA 4.0 ಪರವಾನಗಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮರುಪ್ರಕಟಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿವೆ

ನಿರಂಜನರ ಕೃತಿಗಳು CC-BY-SA 4.0 ಪರವಾನಗಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮರುಪ್ರಕಟಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿವೆ

Posted by Omshivaprakash and Tejas Jain at Nov 03, 2014 02:30 PM |

ಕನ್ನಡ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವದ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ನಿರಂಜನರ ಬಹುಪಾಲು ಕೃತಿಗಳು CC-BY-SA 4.0 ಪರವಾನಗಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮರುಪ್ರಕಟಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿವೆಯೆಂದು ಸಿಐಎಸ್-ಎ೨ಕೆಯ ಸಹಯೋಗದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಬಳಗವು ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಹರ್ಷಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.

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Converting from nonUnicode (Nudi, Baraha, ...) font encoding to Unicode Kannada

Posted by U.B.Pavanaja at Oct 31, 2014 12:30 AM |

People have been using computers for typing and printing Kannada text for more than 25 years. Most of the usage of Kannada on computers was limited to the DTP arena.

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Tulu Wikipedia Workshop cum Editathon at Udupi

Posted by U.B.Pavanaja at Oct 31, 2014 12:20 AM |

A three-day programme was held at Udupi from October 15 to 17, 2014 with an aim to increase the presence of Tulu in the online world. The first day comprised the inauguration programme and a workshop to understand the Wiki markup. The next two days were devoted to the edit-a-thon where participants added articles to Tulu Wikipedia.

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Samskrita Vaibhavam (Sanskrit Wiki Outreach Program)

Posted by Shubha and Sayant Mahato at Oct 30, 2014 01:05 AM |

To celebrate the revival of Sanskrit language, the Bangalore chapter of Samskrita Bharati organised a two-day mega event "Samskrita Vaibhavam" at VSR Kalyan Mantapa in Bangalore on August 9 and 10, 2014.

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Odia Wikisource Goes Live!

Odia Wikisource Goes Live!

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Oct 26, 2014 06:40 AM |

Odia netizens have more than one reason to celebrate this festive season.

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Open access platform to save the Odia Indian language

Open access platform to save the Odia Indian language

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Oct 24, 2014 03:32 PM |

In February 2014, the Government of India declared the South Asian language Odia as the 6th classical language of India which is one among 22 scheduled languages of India and has a literary heritage of more than 5,000 years. There are documents for more than 3,500 years, and the rest are undocumented oral histories.

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Odia Littérateur Ramakrushna Nanda's 4 Books Now Available Under a Creative Commons License

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Oct 22, 2014 08:05 AM |

Children literature in Odia language went through an ennoblement after the intervention of Ramakrushna Nanda's writings.

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Second Draft of Open Access Policy of the Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science released

Posted by Anubha Sinha at Oct 19, 2014 01:35 PM |
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The Department of Biotechnology and the Department of Science, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India drafted an Open Access Policy (“Policy”) in consultation with several open access experts, government officials and CIS. The second draft of the Policy released last week and is open for comments till 17th November, 2014.

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More Than 40 Million People Await the Launch of Odia Wikisource

More Than 40 Million People Await the Launch of Odia Wikisource

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Oct 19, 2014 10:05 AM |

Speakers of Odia will soon have mountains of books to read online in their mother tongue, following the launch of the Odia Wikisource, which will make accessible many rare books that have entered the public domain.

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